Shutdown computer on network

[w7izl4b]

Hi all,

I have 8 computers in a network 4 windows and 4 linux my server is mandriva linux 2006 now,my problems is how to shutdown my server remotely others say using telnet but how could i do that can somebody help me on this because i want to know how to shutdown my server remotely within my network...thanks

[gogalthorp]

Here is a tutorial on SSH it is more secure then telnet

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You will need to log on as root to shut a machine down.

You can also type

man ssh

in a console to get the manual pages

You will need to be sure that the sshd demon is run on the server. Check system service. In Suse it is done from Yast but I'm sure the Mandriva has something like it.

[harner]

Make sure OpenSSH is installed on the server and running.

From Windows:
Download PuTTy. Connect PuTTy to the IP address of your server. It'll fire up a command line and type something like

shutdown -h 0

to halt and shutdown completely or

shutdown -r 0

to restart. Make sure you do this from root.

From Linux:
Open a terminal. Type

ssh root@SERVERIPADDRESS

proceed to use the shutdown command now.

[DOllaBillz217]

or use shutdown -h now to halt everything and shut it down without having to wait a half hour for it to shut down everything