Rebooting a machine through a VPN?

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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??
 
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.
 
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 :/
 
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.
 
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