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I have 3 PC's on a home LAN all running XP Pro. I downloaded uptime.exe
from microsofts website. We use this where I work to see when a PC on the
lan was last rebooted (work for a help desk) and it works great. If I try
to run uptime at home, it will successfully report the uptime of the current
machine...but if I pass another PC's machine name or ip address, it
generates a windows popup dialog saying that the program has encountered a
problem and needs to close.
At work we run on a domain...at home, I do not...I just have a workgroup
setup. Can anyone suggest to me any reason why uptime.exe will only work
locally on the individual machines instead of remotely like it can? I have
one PC that has been giving me problems with random reboots...I want to be
able to run this from my room upstairs and see when the last time it was
rebooted...and since it reboots several times a day, if I just walk up to
the machine I can only see if it is logged in or not...and I could logon and
run the utility there...but its a long journey down to where its at and I
just thought it would be nice to see how long since the last reboot...
Thanks!
from microsofts website. We use this where I work to see when a PC on the
lan was last rebooted (work for a help desk) and it works great. If I try
to run uptime at home, it will successfully report the uptime of the current
machine...but if I pass another PC's machine name or ip address, it
generates a windows popup dialog saying that the program has encountered a
problem and needs to close.
At work we run on a domain...at home, I do not...I just have a workgroup
setup. Can anyone suggest to me any reason why uptime.exe will only work
locally on the individual machines instead of remotely like it can? I have
one PC that has been giving me problems with random reboots...I want to be
able to run this from my room upstairs and see when the last time it was
rebooted...and since it reboots several times a day, if I just walk up to
the machine I can only see if it is logged in or not...and I could logon and
run the utility there...but its a long journey down to where its at and I
just thought it would be nice to see how long since the last reboot...
Thanks!