Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
Location: West Midlands
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I have this piece of crap XP box which I use as an FTP server which will be decommissioned in a few days because it's shite.
I did a remote desktop connection to it earlier from my MacBook Pro but something has caused it to hang (Norton I think) and it disconnected me.
Now it won't let me connect via RDC, is there any way I can remotely reboot it in its hung state? I'm guessing 'no'...
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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push vnc, remote shutdown from command line?
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jamesw
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Registered: 28th Jun 02
Location: Station Town, County Durham
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Have a look for psshutdown, there is a switch to force killing all apps, have used it succesfully in similar situations before.
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
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Tried psshutdown, says it couldn't connect and to make sure the default admin$ share is enabled.
Not sure what you mean about the Push VNC thing John, is this something that has to be installed at the other end also (because I tried it and it came up with an error that it couldn't connect)?
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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It should install remotely, it doesn't always work though.
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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Authenticate to it via UNC first then kill it using shutdown
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