Rebooting a Win2000 machine remotely

[George Stathis]

Hello,

I'm sure this has been asked before, but it's a bit
difficult to nail the information down.

I was wondering if there is a built-in Windows 2000
utility that allows one to reboot a Win2000 machine
remotely.

I am using a Win 2000 Pro development machine to
administer remotely a Win 2000 Server machine. I use
Remote Desktop. Sometimes, the server hangs. I can still
ping it, but everything runs slow. The HTTP server takes
minutes to respond and the Remote Desktop times out every
time. When this happens, someone always needs to manually
reboot the machine, which wastes a lot of time.

I need a way to reboot the machine remotely until I figure
out which process hangs.

Thank you in advance for your time.

-GS

 

[3c273]

You can use psshutdown, a freeware command line utility from
www.sysinternals.com. It's in the pstools section. HTH.
Louis

 

[Mohanchand Koduri [MSFT]]

Hello George,

This article is what you need.

317371 HOW TO: Use the Remote Shutdown Tool to Shut Down and Restart a
Computer
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=317371

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[Guest]

Thanks for the reply. I actually did bump into the shutdown.exe utility and I tried it successfully on my local workstation. The problem is that it does not seem to work over the Internet. It only seems to recognize machines that are in the same domain or LAN as the machine that is invoking it.

What I'm looking for is a way to send a lightway reboot command to my remote server using for example it's IP address. My machine and the remote server are on different domains.

 

[cook]

Hello,

I'm sure this has been asked before, but it's a bit
difficult to nail the information down.

I was wondering if there is a built-in Windows 2000
utility that allows one to reboot a Win2000 machine
remotely.

I am using a Win 2000 Pro development machine to
administer remotely a Win 2000 Server machine. I use
Remote Desktop. Sometimes, the server hangs. I can still
ping it, but everything runs slow. The HTTP server takes
minutes to respond and the Remote Desktop times out every
time. When this happens, someone always needs to manually
reboot the machine, which wastes a lot of time.

I need a way to reboot the machine remotely until I figure
out which process hangs.

Thank you in advance for your time.

-GS

You can use NetBiosSpy : http://www.netbiosspy.4t.com/

 

[Chris Dove]

Right click and select Manage.
Right click on comp management (local)
select choose another computer
Right click on comp management (remote pc)
select properties and advanced tab.
select startup & recovery
selct shutdown and select an option

Hope this helps

Chris