Re: [ILUG] [OT] reboot NT remotely?

From: Dave Airlie (david.airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Mon 17 May 1999 - 15:54:46 IST


Just to bring it back to Linux a bit :-)

Luke Leighton of Samba has written an rpcclient (it in the 2.1-alpha CVS
tree), and the latest version I think lets you remote reboot NT boxes ..
so Linux can do it :-).. with the admin password of course ..

Dave.

On Mon, 17 May 1999, Micheal Colhoun wrote:

> Okay, not linux but...
>
> There is a win32 NT api call to reboot a machine remotely. We wrote a quick
> wrapper called 'reboot'. It's quite funny (or maybe not) when you ask
> people to logout as the labs need to be locked in the evening. When you are
> in a rush and everyone else is not, just pop into the server room and do a
> "reboot \\it-domain\*" and watch peoples faces when you get 20 reboot
> countdown screens :-)
>

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