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>
> Hello, I hope that someone can help me. I have the problem that one of my
> remote servers while rebooting hangs. It just says "Shutdown in progress -
> Please wait while the system writes unsaved data to the disk".
> This message is shown for hours, and the server would not to a reboot, it
> just remains with that box open.
>
> Once I have seen and dl'ed a tool that allows me to do a forced "reset" over
> a password protected tcp-ip port.
> It was just a very small utility, that can be run in the background.
>
> My unluck is that I don't have any idea how this utitily was called. I also
> cannot find it on the net.
> Any idea?
I used to have this problem, it turned out to be the PC Anywhere service not
shutting down. If you tell WinNT to shut down in a PC Anywhere terminal it will
hang, if you use the PC Anywhere reboot button it will always shut down. It's really
annoying. I've dumped PC Anywhere in favor of Win2K Terminal Server remote
administration.
The problem with a utility to try to reboot a NT system stuck in shutdown is that
TCP/IP is one of the first services that shuts down. At that point an APC power
cycler might be your best option.
-Ron
GLISnet, Inc.
+1 810/939.9885
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