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harry · Contributor Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 61

i need to do a shutdown, thats the easy part
main box is a xp . peer is win98 the shut down is run on the
98 box
when running the SD.exe it will run on the local box and not the
remote.
anyway to run the sd from the main box with vds & a dll and have
it do its number on the remote box?
thanks for any help or ideas.
harry

kc7aad · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:41 am Post subject:

May not be a VDS Solution, but how about PSTools? PSExec is a great tool, as long as you have administrative rights to a particualr pc. Not sure how it works in 98 tho, as I have only used it in Win2k and XP Pro versions.

Just my 2 cents....

see ya,.,
Rod

Garrett · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject:

If memory serves me right, VDS is more than capable of doing such a thing. But as of this moment, nothing comes to mind as to how to do it, or if there any examples of doing this. Check through the examples on the main site here and see if there's anything.

-Garrett

DaveR · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:59 pm Post subject:

I seem to remember seeing a dll or dsu that could shutdown a remote PC... but I can't find it atm.

Searching for 'remote shutdown' found some topics but, at a glance, no conclusive answer.

KiXtart is a simple, free (careware), scripting language designed specifically for network admins and shutting down remote PCs is just one of things it can do. http://www.kixtart.org/

And here's a great little command line tool that can be called from VDS:
http://www.beyondlogic.org/consulting/remoteprocess/BeyondExec.htm

harry · Contributor Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 61

Thanks guys,
i finally just used a progy called 'hidden adminsterator'.
i thought one of the dlls ( a network dll i think) would do th job.
but couldn't find it.

george
a vdser since 2.0

Rubes_sw · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:02 am Post subject:

Actually, Tommy Sools vdsdll has the vdsexitw built into it:

VDSEXITW

Requirements:

· Windows 2000/XP for DLL SHUTDOWN, LOCK;

· Windows NT/2000/XP systems for being the target of DLL SHUTDOWN, REMOTE and DLL SHUTDOWN, ABORT.

Description:

With this VDSDLL part, you can shut the system down in various ways, even on Windows NT based systems. You can also lock a workstation. Finally it is possible to shut down remote systems, however they cannot be remotely powered off by this VDSDLL part.

It's on the vdsworld shareware extensions...

Nathan

Rubes_sw · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:26 am Post subject:

I also developed a program which had a server application and a client installation called SIDR (Shut It Down Remote), that allowed you to remotly shutdown any windows pc, and you could have it timed for days, and time. You could also use Wake On Lan, (if the pc supported it).

I'll see if i can hunt out the source code (VDS4 i think) and post you a link.

Nathan