</lurk> Just thought I'd pass along this useful tip--I wanted to have an box running NT and VNC Server, but on demand, not 24/7. So I set up wake-on-LAN. All fine so far.
But then I noticed that lots (most?) NT installations don't support soft power-down, so if the VNC user were to Start:Shut Down:Shut Down the Computer, the box would be left in a state where there's a stupid button that says "Restart", but the VNC service has been shut off. So there's no way to shut it down completely, and no way to turn tell it to restart. WOL doesn't help because it's not actually off. I did some searching and found this: http://www.9-muses.com/freak/viewpoint/nt/making_nt_fun/soft-power-down.shtml It seems to work great! Granted I've used it for exactly 29 minutes so far, but I've remotely turned on my NT box and shut it down about 5 times without a problem so far. HTH! -- A rich man who hailed from Seattle #``````` Wrote Win95 to do battle, # ``````` But Mac users pity # ``````` The masses not witty # ``````` Enough to know Wintel's for cattle. #. ``````` ~ ~ . \_@_/ ``````` ^_@ o . V ``````` Steven "Rocket Man" Kan `-' - \_@_ ~ . ###### mailto:steven@;kan.org V \ ~ . ###### http://www.kan.org ~ . #H2O## Everybody S.H.I.N.E. ~ .#POLO# Support Heterogeneity In Networked Environments ~ ~ ###### _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
