Linux shutting down a windows machine.

Pozican · 04-28-2005, 02:23 PM

I'm currently a network tech at a high school, and they supply my laptop...

I've convinced them to allow me to use gentoo for all of my duties, and it has worked beautifully in every way.

I've found something that has been restricting me though.

On occasion I happen to be on the network, and I see kids playing games.

I have the permissions (with my account/password in active directory) to shutdown these computers remotely with the command -

Code:

shutdown -s -m [computer-name] -t 00 -c " "

Any ideas how I could do this from my gentoo distro?

Thanks guys,
Poz

Thoreau · 04-28-2005, 03:00 PM

That's a hard one. Winbind or not, I'm not sure what the command is or if it's possible.

Login to IRC. irc.freenode.net 6667 join #samba or #samba-technical

Ask the developers. Full AD support is very new and and I have no idea.

Obie · 04-28-2005, 03:40 PM

What about using www.tightvnc.com?

Pozican · 04-28-2005, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Thoreau
That's a hard one. Winbind or not, I'm not sure what the command is or if it's possible.

Login to IRC. irc.freenode.net 6667 join #samba or #samba-technical

Ask the developers. Full AD support is very new and and I have no idea.

I'll check that out -- Thanks!

Quote:

Originally posted by Obie
What about using www.tightvnc.com?

That would require a server being installed on tons of computers -- I suppose we could push the install onto computers through active dir, but I think that's against policy -- I'll check with my superiors