Hi Les,
Problem is not about quotes or KiX, i had already put the quotes when u had replied the first time.
my exe takes parameters & i want to run this exe as a service. i use the following command line to make a service:

sc create kerberos5 binPath= "C:\nf\gssserver.exe -port 999"
Service is created successfully, but it does NOT start. plz. provide pointers to this if possible; Thank you.