Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4393 mails)

[Gideon Hallett <diogenes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 05 November 2001 17:31, Jaakko Tamminen wrote:
> Hi
>
> Sorry to be OT here, but it is kind of emergency.
>
> In a remote LAN, there is Linux-box / firewall, that I have full control
> over.
>
> Then there is one Win-98 machine, that has "samba" shared printer / HD in
> that LAN.
>
> This computer needs to be rebooted remotly.
> I had VNC running there, but now the user seems to have quit the VNC.
>
> I'm able to reach other win-98 machines thru their VNC okay, and see the
> shares, also in that "reboot" machine...
>
> Is there a way to make Win-98 boot thru this access that I have?

Well, if you've got a Win98 machine and you know the IP address and NetBIOS 
name, there is something you can do, although it's a bit brutal.

http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/bins/RFParalyze.c

Compile that with gcc and run it, feeding the machine name and address you 
need to reboot; it will cause *most* vanilla Win98 and 98 SE boxes to reboot 
themselves instantly.

It must be said that this is something of a l33t d00d thing to do; I wouldn't 
dream of using on any box I didn't have admin access to, although I have seen 
it used to get rid of an annoying newbie on an IRC channel; one of the 
regulars used Nessus to find out his NetBIOS name, dig to find out his IP 
address, and soft-rebooted the newbie's machine over the 'net.

Of course, as with any '98 box; reboot with such an extreme-prejudice method 
and you *may* be left with lost or corrupt data if the user is in the middle 
of something.

 Hope this helps,

    Gideon Hallett.