Remote Reboot of Hung XP Pro System??

[j]

I was working remotely through RD to my XP Pro machine,
when the connection was lost, and I have not been able to
connect since. I believe the box hung during the session,
but I am not sure. I can still RD to other boxes. Outside
of having someone physically reboot the system, is there
any way to remotely restart the box, or verify the cause
of the error?

 

[Bill Sanderson]

If the affected machine is on a network, and you can reach other machines on
that network, you may be able to use either the tsshutdn or shutdown
command-line applications to restart it.

At at cmd prompt, tsshutdn /? <enter>
shutdown /? <enter>

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Well - you have to address the other machine. If you have an IP on the same
subnet as the other machine, that should work, otherwise not. If you can't
ping it, I think you're going to need local physical intervention.