Re: Remote rebooting

Sawada999 wrote:
Herb Martin wrote:
"Mike Jones" <admin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:jwwUh.575$537.408@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sawada999 wrote:
shutdown -r -f -m \\remotepc
Thanks for the reply.

The computer is not on my local network. I looked at the Microsoft site but am not understanding what I'd use for computername. I have the IP address.

Could you give me some more info?

Thanks,

Try the raw IP for the PC.
another possibility is rcmd, but again requires a servername.

can you telnet into it?

btw, I expect the experts to turn up shortly. I'm going offline now.

You're doing fine (Mike) -- IP will work with Shutdown if the network
is routable AND if he has admin authority on the remote computer.

There doesn't seem to be any switches (viewing Help) in Shutdown for
establishing authentication if the machine is not in the same or trusting
domain -- perhaps an initial connection to a share or the IPC$ will
take care of that if needed.

net use \\Server.Name.Or.IP\IPC$ * /user:DomainOrServer\UserName

I have not tried this (for Shutdown) however.


This is not my day job :>) so I'm in way over my head.

I have the IP address. Routable? I didn't set it up (its 2,000 miles from me) and wouldn't know how to anyway. I'm not sure how it's connected to the Internet (not dial up) but it does have a static IP address.


Well? what's to lose? Why not try the remote shutdown command? (and yes, I'll bet you need to make a connection as administrator to the PC (using IPC$ as shown above) first.

I do know these things. It has VNC Enterprise and requires a username and password to log on. Also CuteFTP Pro is for the purpose of a secure FTP server so I can upload software changes and data. The machine is running under admin and I can add/modify/delete any files in any folder with either VNC or CuteFTP Pro.

Presently when I log in with VNC it returns "Connection reset by peer" and asks if I want to try again.

I can log in with CuteFTP PRO and do what I want with files etc. Seems odd to me that the ftp server is running yet apparently the Windows task manage isn't starting scheduled tasks.

I was operating the machine with VNC when the problem occurred. My program was loading about 700 thumbnails. At about 500 I got a Windows message to the effect "Dangerously low on system resources ..." . VNC closed.

Ok there's a resource leak somewhere, I'm guessing in "your program". This needs fixing for long-term solution.

Just seems odd to me that there is no file or bit on the hard disk that I can modify to cause Windows to reboot.

Hmmm, isn't it VNC that you wish to restart?
pskill/psexec would do it, and again will require authentication.

This machine is about 25 miles from the nearest employee so it's a big hassle (and expense) to get someone to drive out to reset it. Even if I can't recover from this hang I need to setup a fool proof way to reboot this system. I thought I had done so using the task manager but not so. Is this going to require some additional piece of hardware to do this?

Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions.


I've used RIB boards on Compaq hardware - as long as you have electric to the PC (let's call it a server shall we?) you can remotely connect & reboot the machine via it's interface. I don't know if they're available for non HPCompaq devices.
.

Relevant Pages

  • Microsoft FTP Server problem on W2K?
    ... We have a mainframe at work that FTPs file to a Microsoft W2K FTP server ... Microsoft FTP server can create both teh control and data ports for the ... connection; rather than requiring the mainframe to create the data port. ... the data connection MUST use the same IP address as the ...
    (microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.security)
  • Re: Microsoft FTP Server problem on W2K?
    ... Please note that both the Mainframe and Microsoft FTP Server is on same ... > connection; rather than requiring the mainframe to create the data port. ... the data connection MUST use the same IP address as ...
    (microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.security)
  • Re: Remote Desktop Connection
    ... You can try a free two user version of SSL-Explorer to try it out. ... SSL-Explorer also supports a web based RDC and VNC access to desktop PCs on your network. ... OpenVPN is completely free like SSH. ... What if i have a linkys WiFi router, and does not have vpn feature, how could i secure the connection? ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.work_remotely)
  • Re: Pd de connection distante avec VNC sur Fedora 4
    ... J'ai un problème de connection à distance avec VNC sur Fedora 4. ... SSH pour faire passer VNC dans un tunneling. ... quand je lance une application nécessitant les droit root, ...
    (linux.redhat.misc)
  • Re: Linux (Suse) TS ?
    ... >> Windows applications (Outlook, ... I've got both VNC on my XP desktop in addition ... connection maps to my local printer for those short print jobs. ...
    (alt.os.linux.suse)