Restart remotely

[biglebowski]

I need to restart a server that is on the other side of the country but remote desktop is not responding, is there a way I can do this from my pc I have the admin login and password (I can still map network drives to it)

That rug really tied the room together, did it not?

 

[SimonDavies]

shutdown -i should do it just fine.

 

[biglebowski]

I don't have remote access to the box and I don't want to shutdown I want to restart.

That rug really tied the room together, did it not?

 

[SimonDavies]

Do a shutdown -i at your Start Run because you don't need remote access to the box.

That will bring up a dialogue box allowing you to Shutdown, Restart or Logoff users.

It's used for remote purposes and can be done across WAN links just fine.

 

[xmsre]

shutdown -r -f -m \\remotehost

The -r means "shutdown and restart the computer", but of course you knew that because you did shutdown /? which displays all the command line switches for the shutdown command.

If you're command line phobic, -i just brings up the GUI interface.