Been looking into remotely shutting down a windows XP PC from a linux PC.
I found THIS link which seems to have got me pretty much what I wanted - not got it working yet due to zone alarm on the windows PC blocking it - but it should work from what I can see.
I am using Samba and the following :-
"net rpc SHUTDOWN -C "some comment here" -f -I x.x.x.x -U user_name%password"
I suspect zonealarm is set to trust the router IP (?) but have yet to check. Would it be possible to issue this type of command directly from the router?
Currently, my mission is nothing more exciting than to annoy the wife who is using the windows PC, but I can see a use for timing the command to run to shutdown specific machines at certain times.
Any suggestions on how / if this is possible.
Edit:- before I get any smart replies... I meant how the remote shutdown might be possible...not how / if it is possible to annoy the wife. I have this well and truly covered!
Remote shutdown windows pc from router.
Remote shutdown windows pc from router.
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- Terry Pratchett
www.bliss.org.uk