Remote shutdown/reboot of NT server

[XRaider]

Evening all. *I also posted this in Highly Technical too*. I need to reboot a NT4 SP6 server at my work from home thru citrix. How can i do this? It is 1 of 2 Citrix servers that we have at work. I can connect to the one citrix server that is working fine, and can open server manager and can map a drive into the root of the second citrix server that is having a login problem and the only way to fix this (as of right now) is to reboot the bastard... but I'm not sure of the command(s) to reboot the other server from the command line. MS website suxors, can't seem to find anything about it. 🙁 The terminal services wont restart on that server either. Can someone help me out, so i can get this server back online again..? Thanks in advance everyone.

 

[nuttervm]

look around for a shutdown.exe file. if you have the same user/pass on the local/remote computers you can shut the remote machine down. It is not a standard part of the windows installation, it can be found in one of the resource kits (i think there are some freeware ones online). you might be able to shut down the remote mahcine without a similar local/remote user, but i've never tried.

also, an easy way to do it is to use vncserver... the security of vnc isnt known to be the greatest, and you have to install additional software, but it is another solution. with vnc you can log into teh remote machine and reboot just as if you were at the local console.

 

[XRaider]

Nice! Thank you sir! I did the shutdown.exe thing from the one citrix server "shutdown /server:xxxxx /reboot"
worked like a charm. Just had to make sure i had a drive mapped. 🙂
Thanks a million!!