It does has SQL 2000 on it. With a blank SA password.......
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter van Houten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: Remote server won't allow management
> Going out on a limb but I know when I'm in this situation, I'll try
> just
> about anything to talk to a server I can "see" (bearing in mind the
> time/cost). What about running nmap against the system to see if port
> 135
> (RPC) or any others are, in fact open? Anyone have a copy of Blaster
> for
> David :-)
>
> On the 13/03/2008 19:18, David W. McSpadden wrote the following:
>> All of the ps tools come back unable to connect.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter van Houten"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: Remote server won't allow management
>>
>>
>>> Thanks to Mark R. once again:
>>>
>>> psexec \\computername -i "shutdown -r -t 1"
>>>
>>> or if you *really* want to shut down no matter what:
>>>
>>> pskill -t \\computername svchost.exe
>>>
>>> which will kill most instances of the generic host process and
>>> consequently restart the machine. But as James pointed out, the
>>> integrity of the RPC channel must be intact.
>>>
>>> I have experienced the frustration of being able to ping a system but
>>> not being able to communicate in any other way else. This idea would
>>> be
>>> useful if one could implement it in Windows:
>>>
>>> http://www.securiteam.com/tools/5GP071FG0Q.html
>>>
>>>
>>>> *From:* Rankin, James R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 13
>>>> March
>>>> 2008 11:38 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Remote server
>>>> won't allow management
>>>>
>>>> If it won't take a remote shutdown command (from the ResKit), then
>>>> it
>>>> is probably out of reach. Most stuff relies on some form of RPC
>>>> communication. I sometimes use pskill to kill the winlogon process
>>>> which generally makes it bluescreen, but this may not work either in
>>>> diagnostic mode
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From:* David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 13 March
>>>> 2008 11:30 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Remote server
>>>> won't allow management
>>>>
>>>> Nope.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>
>>>> *From:* Rankin, James R <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* NT
>>>> System Admin Issues <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 13, 2008 7:29 AM *Subject:* RE: Remote
>>>> server
>>>> won't allow management
>>>>
>>>> Take it it doesn't have a DRAC/RIB/ILO installed?
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From:* David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 13 March
>>>> 2008 11:20 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Remote server
>>>> won't
>>>> allow management
>>>>
>>>> I have a remote server I would like to get into but is was last
>>>> restarted in Diag mode from MSCONFIG.
>>>>
>>>> There is no one at the remote site. Is there a way to get it
>>>> unstuck?
>>>>
>>>> I can ping it but that is all.
>
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