using cygwin to run “sc”

Question

I'm trying to stop and perform an action from a management server, on a remote server, using cygwin and the "sc" command.

The syntax s/b: "sc \\remote {query\stop\start} sshd
This yielded:

 $ sc \\server stop sshd
 ERROR:  Unrecognized command

I tried cygstart sc \\server stop sshd This yielded:

$ cygstart -v sc \\server stop sshd
ShellExecute(NULL, "(null)", "sc", "\server stop sshd", "(null)", 1)

I also tried cygstart sc \\\\server stop sshd

This yielded:
$ cygstart -v sc \\\\server stop sshd
ShellExecute(NULL, "(null)", "sc", "\\server stop sshd", "(null)", 1)

Since the service I'm may be starting is sshd, I can't use ssh \server -C sc start sshd.

Any suggestions would be gratefully accepted.