Remote computer restart ?

[Blue Max]

How do we shutdown or restart the computer remotely using Windows Vista
Remote Desktop? When we go to the start menu of a remote host, during a
remote desktop session, the options for shutdown or restart are not present.
Thank you for any help with this issue.

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

How do we shutdown or restart the computer remotely using Windows Vista
Remote Desktop? When we go to the start menu of a remote host, during a
remote desktop session, the options for shutdown or restart are not
present. Thank you for any help with this issue.

Look at the shutdown command from the command line. Do a "shutdown /?"
command to get the syntax.

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[Blue Max]

Thank you for the helpful reply. Unless you indicate otherwise, I take this
to mean that we can force a shutdown or restart only from the 'Run' command
line in Vista? We will give this a try, thanks.

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[greeny]

You can also go to "Start" -> "Windows Security" and use the small button in
the lower right corner.

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

You can also go to "Start" -> "Windows Security" and use the small button
in the lower right corner.

You right of course. I completely forgot about that. You can also use the
<Ctrl><Alt><End> key sequence to bring up the same Task Manager screen while
in the Remote Desktop session.

Thanks for reminding me and my old memory...

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[Blue Max]

Thanks, Greeny. I knew I had issued a restart over Remote Desktop on prior
occasions and your suggestion prompted the thought that we must have
accessed the option from the Windows Task Manager. However, I did not
follow your reference to "Start > Windows Security"? I am using Vista and
have customized my 'Start' menu to some degree, but don't fully understand
where you are referring to here? Can you expound a little?

Thanks,

The Blue Max

 

[Blue Max]

Follow-up here to my last reply, Greenie. After a little perusing, I
discovered that the new WindowsVista Task Manager does not have the old XP
options to 'Shutdown' or 'Restart' the computer. So now I am really curious
where you were headed with the "Start > Windows Security" suggestion.

Thanks,

Blue Max

 

[greeny]

Are you using the classic or the new Vista start menu? At least on the Vista
start menu, I have an option called "Windows Security" (ONLY when logged in
via RD though).
Screenshot: http://tinyurl.com/3c3xxn ("Windows-Sicherheit" is German for
"Windows Security")

I don't know, it's probably disabled in the classic start menu, it can also
be disabled via group policies.

Anyway, you can just press CTRL+ALT+END as Al suggested, that should have
the same effect.

Regards,
greeny

 

[Blue Max]

Okay, it certainly helps to know that the 'Security' option is only
available when logged in with RD. I will explore that further (it rings a
bell), but Al suggested that this simply opens 'Task Manager', correct?
Yet, as I indicated, Task Manager doesn't appear to have a 'Shutdown' or
'Restart' option in Vista even if we can bring it up?

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[Blue Max]

I got it, Greeny! When logged in with Remote Desktop we can see the
'Windows Security' item on the Vista Start menu. Unfortunately, upon
selecting the link, there is not an option to 'Restart' or 'Shutdown' the
host! What are your findings?

Thanks,

Blue Max

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[ddamian67]

all you have to do is type o the "start search" shutdown -r to restart and
shutdown -s to shutdown, as simple as that.
I have a network of 4 pc's @home and i remoe acces all pc's and that is
what i use for my Vista and XP machine.

 

[Jeffrey Randow]

Don't forget the -m \\computername parameter to shutdown remote
computers..

 

[Blue Max]

Thank you for the reply, ddamian67. This is a great hint!

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[Blue Max]

Thank you for the qualification, Jeffrey, but could you elaborate just a
little more? How does the \\computername integrate with the "Shutdown -r"
command? What is the "-m" parameter and where does it go?

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[Jeffrey Randow]

For instance, I use "shutdown -r -t 0 -m \\computername" to "reboot" a
remote computer. -r to reboot -t 0 to have no delay and -m
\\computername to specify the machinename...

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[Blue Max]

Thank you, that makes a lot more sense. However, why do you have to provide
the parameter for the remote computer? When you are logged into the host,
using a remote client, isn't issuing this command the same as if you were
actually there issuing the command on the host?

Thanks

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[Jeffrey Randow]

If you are physically at a console session - either in front of the
machine or via remote desktop/ssh/etc, you don't need to provide the
name. If you are at another workstation on the same network, you can
add the -m parameter to avoid having to remote in...

 

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How do we shutdown or restart the computer remotely using Windows Vista
Remote Desktop? When we go to the start menu of a remote host, during a
remote desktop session, the options for shutdown or restart are not present.
Thank you for any help with this issue.

 

[Blue Max]

Thanks, Jeffrey, that was extremely helpful!

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[Bonnie]

I am running Vista Home Prem 32-bit and I want to shut down a networked
computer running XP. In the Vista command line I type shutdown -m \\(name of
my networked computer) and it doesn't work. I just get a long list of
possible commands, and the networked computer stays on. Any suggestions?

Bonnie