Rebooting a windows machine across the net?
24 May 2005, 03:46 PM
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Rebooting a windows machine across the net?
Hi,
Does anyone know if it is possible to reboot a windows machine from across the network? Not being a windows person (apart from machines at home) I've looked but found nothing so far ....
The situation is, we're looking at triple boot workstations that would, ideally, be rebooted after work from their current OS (which could be Windows or a desktop Linux) to a *compute node* Linux (the Linux OSs will almost certainly be different). So the machine doing the rebooting will be a Linux box but the workstations may be running XP - they may be running Linux.
The other problem is how to ensure that the reboot actually reboots into the correct OS ....
Any advice appreciated ....
Ta
Dave
Does anyone know if it is possible to reboot a windows machine from across the network? Not being a windows person (apart from machines at home) I've looked but found nothing so far ....
The situation is, we're looking at triple boot workstations that would, ideally, be rebooted after work from their current OS (which could be Windows or a desktop Linux) to a *compute node* Linux (the Linux OSs will almost certainly be different). So the machine doing the rebooting will be a Linux box but the workstations may be running XP - they may be running Linux.
The other problem is how to ensure that the reboot actually reboots into the correct OS ....
Any advice appreciated ....
Ta
Dave
25 May 2005, 08:29 AM
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if its windows xp go into the cmd prompt and type shutdown /? this gives the options i would recommened shutdown -i as you can select which computers and put a message on the screen with a countdown, never tried this on a workgroup only a domian, on which domain admin rights (or yourself having local admin rights on the machine) would be required.
as far as getting them to boot into the correct OS
as far as getting them to boot into the correct OS
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25 May 2005, 10:41 AM
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shutdown would work.
Depends what your using as your boot manager.. you could try ammending boot.ini to boot to linux but you may have to **** around with lilo or whatever its called these days.
David
Depends what your using as your boot manager.. you could try ammending boot.ini to boot to linux but you may have to **** around with lilo or whatever its called these days.
David
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