Rebooting a machine through a VPN?

Slime101 · 20 Dec 2010 at 17:56

Is it possible, if so how, to reboot a remote machine through a standard VPN??

I have access to an XP machine, usually though RDT (using teamviewer) however its stopped working this evening, i still have access through a VPN but can i reboot the machine somehow??

shine · 20 Dec 2010 at 17:59

Try this:

http://forums.devshed.com/networking-help-109/reboot-an-xp-machine-remotely-137683.html

Slime101 · 20 Dec 2010 at 18:35

Sadly that al assumes an RDT connection where you can get to the start button, or "my computer" to manage it....i only have VPN access so dont have these.

Phal · 20 Dec 2010 at 18:44

There stuff like PSTOOLS which can be used remotely but you need to authenticate yourself like PCNAME\USERNAME and password normally and the Windows Firewall might stop you :/

Larkspeed · 21 Dec 2010 at 10:02

if you can access commnand line on the machine then type in:

shutdown -r

same as on a linux machine, this instructs the machine to shutdown and the -r tells it to reboot if you forget the -r it will just shutdown and not come back up.