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FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I am working on a script for a school's network. I want to make a dialog box that simply has two buttons - on and off. I want this script to be able to turn on or off a computer or all computers with a single click. I'm pretty sure the computers are equipped with a Wake on LAN networking card, which is capable of turning on and off computers remotely. If possible, it would be better without an app running on the target computers.
Any thoughts would be great. Smile

Tommy · Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 5:10 pm Post subject:

Hi FreezingFire,

You may try my VDSDLL V3.0, it contains a VDSIWAKE DLL (not included in the all-in-one VDSDLL file, so you'll need to download the vdsdll3e.zip or vdsdll3s.zip file), although it's shareware.

I think some freeware command-line applications also exist for this purpose.

Either of these solutions require you to supply the MAC address of the network adapters of the workstations you want to turn on. Please note that beside basic wake on lan support of the NICs (and for PCI Rev < 2.2 a special cable connected), you'll need to have the system BIOS properly configured, have the latest driver installed and have that driver properly configured for this.

Tommy

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Thanks, I will take a look at that. Will this DLL also be able to shut down the computers? Very Happy

Tommy · Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2002 2:41 pm Post subject:

Shutdown is no option with the DLL yet, currently this would require a script running at the remote computers as well. Depending on the operating system, Windows could allow for this though without requiring a special program running. I think Windows 2000 and Windows XP allow this, provided that you have sufficient access rights for this. NT might allow for this too, but I'm not certain about that. Hopefully I'll be able to update the VDSEXITW DLL with such a feature.

BTW, if your school will need a free VDSDLL 3 license for this, please have them contact me.

Best regards,

Tommy

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Hi Tommy,
That would be a great feature to be able to shut down remote computers. Very Happy

The school I am writing the program for currently runs Windows 2000 on their computers, and it would be no problem with the access rights. I'm looking forward to this update, but if it is not possible, don't worry about it. Very Happy