Shutdown windows remotely from Linux

[Zwitterion]

..why?

Just keep it patched and updated.

[laserlights2000]

Well, I need to find a way to shut down a machine from other locations of my house, and since I have a laptop, with debian installed, with wifi, it would be nice ifI could remotely shut the machine down.

[tim_m]

maybe wine and copy shutdown.exe to the linux box, just a guess. default location is c:\windows\system32

otherwise perhaps enable telnet and use telnet to run shutdown, i guess 2k and xp have shutdown.exe, don't know about others

[laserlights2000]

Meh, I don't know wine. Haha

[GreNME]

Shutdown doesn't work unless you have authentication, so telnetting in would work where just running shutdown.exe through WINE would probably not.

[laserlights2000]

For those of us that also need this, and don't know, you can enable the build in micrsoft telnet server by going to run, services.msc and starting telnet as a service. It should be off by default. Thanks guys. I forgot about windows shell access.

[tim_m]

make sure that the machines are only accessible within the network for obvious security reasons

[[wizard]]

maybe you can get wine to operate shutdowngui

i'm not sure where to dl it...got it from a friend. i can throw it up on my site to dl if you want to give it a wirl.

[mwarps]

You could pingflood the box until it dies :D:p:D:p

[Schubes]

Originally posted by mwarps
You could pingflood the box until it dies :D:p:D:p

:D