On Friday 21 April 2006 10:10, James Fryman wrote: > rdesktop only allows several logons if the computer in question is a > server class.... otherwise it's a single session. Granted rdesktop is > much better than vnc for slow links... and a *little* more secure. > > However, addressing the original question: if you are just concerned > with shutting down or restarting windows computers... you should take a > look at the 'net' command that accompanies samba. > > Something like: > > net rpc shutdown -U <user> --ipaddress=<computer name/ip> (-r if reboot) > > should do you just nicely. > > Good luck! > > -James >
Hey, thats pretty slick. didn't know about the net command. Should work nicely. smbclient will work for executing remote commands, so you could use that to execute shutdown.exe as well, but the net command might be simpler to weed though :) Thanks for the tips... Joe _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
