In this particular case, it turns out the ability has been there for quite a while as an add-on to distributions - but not immediately obvious, and, most annoyingly, not accessible via the "Click START to shut down" choices.
Here are your choices for *forcing* shutdown: (1) Win98/Me: RUNDLL32 SHELL32.DLL,SHExitWindowsEx 6 will force an immediate reboot without prompt (2) Daytona-class OS's (NT/2000 - XP has it built in FINALLY) - get any command-line shutdown. This is a key part of an admin's toolkit - my philosophy for the last few years has been that I will bring my own "special" tools to Windows and not expect Microsoft to implement functions I want in what they designed as a local small-office server... (3) If you have Kixtart (if not, you should) you can use $RC = SHUTDOWN( "\\server", "", 0, 1, 1 ) It is free from http://www.kixtart.org/ For some general shutdown tricks, I suggest visiting http://www.robvanderwoude.com/shutdown.html He has impeccable sources - he even quotes me on the shutdown methods... ;) I'm taking a look at a method Rob mentions using the setupapi from the command line; as I recall, although he does not document it, there are a couple of codes you can issue as arguments to rundll32 setupapi which might be usable to do a direct command-line forced reboot. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 2002-03-25 14:51 Subject: Re: TightVNC 1.2.3 released > On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Does tight VNC shut down before everything else like standard VNC? For > > those of you who don't know when you reboot a server with vnc, the vnc > > service is the first to die, and if something else hangs , you will > > never know it. > > > > This is ok if the server is down the hall, but when it is across town or > > the country it really sucks. > > > Is there no way to force windows to reboot, automatically ignoring all > hanging programs? It would answer all "end task?" questions for the user > with a 'yes.' That would be ideal. I guess it doesn't exist. Microsoft > isn't exactly a good listener, so I won't bother to recommend it! > > Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
