remote reboot on vpn possible?

[Jim Madsen]

My daughter often comes over to my place to do work on her work computer
using MS VPN because I have a fast connection. Her work computer is
used to do heavy duty processing (of digital orthophotography and
related items).

Occasionally, her work computer starts slowing down, and eventually
needs to be rebooted. Is there any way for her to do this over VPN?

Or are there any reasons why she wouldn't want to do that over VPN?

(The only menu items on the start menu that show up on her work computer
are "logoff" and "disconnect").

It kind of defeats the purpose of checking things from here if she has
to drive to work, and there is usually no one or very few people at her
work place on weekends.

Jim

 

[Guest]

My daughter often comes over to my place to do work on her work computer
using MS VPN because I have a fast connection. Her work computer is
used to do heavy duty processing (of digital orthophotography and
related items).

Occasionally, her work computer starts slowing down, and eventually
needs to be rebooted. Is there any way for her to do this over VPN?

Or are there any reasons why she wouldn't want to do that over VPN?

(The only menu items on the start menu that show up on her work computer
are "logoff" and "disconnect").

It kind of defeats the purpose of checking things from here if she has
to drive to work, and there is usually no one or very few people at her
work place on weekends.

Jim

Looks like she doesnt have permission to shutdown the box then, and i
would suggest she doesnt becauser the sysadmin might get mad, however,
you can try remotely rebooting the computer, from the remote pc or on
the work machine, open up a command window and type in "shutdown -h
127.0.0.1" or replace the ip address of the machines actual ip address,
you may need other flags to get it to reboot, just type "shutdown" to
see what options you have. chances are you will get a permission denied
when trying to perform this command though.

Flamer

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

My daughter often comes over to my place to do work on her work computer
using MS VPN because I have a fast connection. Her work computer is
used to do heavy duty processing (of digital orthophotography and
related items).

Occasionally, her work computer starts slowing down, and eventually
needs to be rebooted. Is there any way for her to do this over VPN?

Or are there any reasons why she wouldn't want to do that over VPN?

(The only menu items on the start menu that show up on her work computer
are "logoff" and "disconnect").

It kind of defeats the purpose of checking things from here if she has
to drive to work, and there is usually no one or very few people at her
work place on weekends.

Jim

Try either of these commands:

shutdown -m \\computername
shutdown -m \\IPAddress
shutgui

You can download shutgui.exe from here:
http://www.petri.co.il/download_free_reskit_tools.htm

 

[Jim Madsen]

Looks like she doesnt have permission to shutdown the box then, and i
would suggest she doesnt becauser the sysadmin might get mad, however,
you can try remotely rebooting the computer, from the remote pc or on
the work machine, open up a command window and type in "shutdown -h
127.0.0.1" or replace the ip address of the machines actual ip address,
you may need other flags to get it to reboot, just type "shutdown" to
see what options you have. chances are you will get a permission denied
when trying to perform this command though.

Flamer

Thanks --

I printed out the instructions for future use. I tried this on my
computer and -r did the trick. Didn't see a -h. I like the way it
gives you time before it shutsdown.

Course I have XP home, and she has XP Pro at work. I tried writing a VB
program to do that (using API), but found out it wasn't that simple.

Jim

 

[Jim Madsen]

Try either of these commands:

shutdown -m \\computername
shutdown -m \\IPAddress
shutgui

You can download shutgui.exe from here:
http://www.petri.co.il/download_free_reskit_tools.htm

Thanks --

I also printed out your instructions for future use. I saved your
zipped file, but it looks like the command-line option is what she needs.

Jim