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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.