Topic: Remote reboot of LAN boxes (6.0b3)?

[MarcoP]

Hi people,

I'd like to ask if anyone knows of any contrib or compatible program that will allow me to reboot/WOL/shutdown a given machine (by MAC or 192.168 address) on the LAN behind the SME server.

Searched the site first, found no match.

Thanks for any hint.

[warren]

MarcoP,

I've used Netop Remote control ( on Win98,W2K ) before, loaded on machines on LAN behind SME Box. Load the geust onto the machine that you will be VPN ing from, establish VPN session, and once connected you use NetOp to connect to any machine on the LAN and perform a remote control.

Hope helps / points you in the right direction.

Warren

[RavenIV]

you can automate ssh to do many commands.
you can put the login, passwd, commands into a script and ssh is controlled by that script.

cheers

[MarcoP]

warren,

thank you for your help, but my hope -- which I admit I should have specified -- was to use SME as the lowest entry point into the LAN without having to rely on the Win machines, which are prone to freezing and losing the LAN connection, while I can always count on SME responding to SSH. So I wanted to find a failsafe way to power cycle the Win machines that didn't involve any Win app or service at all, like remote control packages, just SME. I have been able to partially solve my problem in a roundabout way thanks to WOL, which I found while looking at the DHCP manager contrib, but WOL can't restart an unresponsive machine, just power it on when it's turned off. It's a great resource, but I'm still looking for something better.

I appreciate your reply. I've never used NetOp, will give it a try. Maybe it'll give me new ideas. Thanks for helping.

best.