Need redhat 9 to shutdown WinXP

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I have a network of about 100 redhat 9 boxes. Each one has at least 1 WinXP box connected via an additional NIC. I can remotely shutdown/reboot the linux boxes from a linux server but I would like to be able to remotely shutdown/reboot the PC connected to each Redhat box as well. I read somewhere that samba would allow me to send a net command to the PC but haven't yet found enough info to try it. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Tony

 

[tsmi]

Well, either this is a slow forum or the question was challenging (I doubt it). Anyway, the answer is rather simple really. I upgraded samba from 2.7 to 3.x. Next, incorporate into my site shutdown script this to be sent from each linux box to its' pc(s):

net rpc shutdown -s -I xx.xx.xx.xx -U<username>%<passwd> -f -t5

Might be useful to somebody out there...

Tony