{"id":1288,"date":"2009-06-03T11:49:36","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T15:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2009-06-03T11:49:36","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T15:49:36","slug":"shutting-down-a-windows-pc-from-a-macintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/shutting-down-a-windows-pc-from-a-macintosh\/","title":{"rendered":"Shutting Down a Windows PC from a Macintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to remotely reboot a Windows box from your<span> <\/span><span> <\/span>machine, the following tip can be useful&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Any Macintosh OS X system can reboot a windows machine, assuming that you know the credentials of an Administrative Account on the Windows system. \u00c2\u00a0Open the Terminal and use the following command line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>net rpc shutdown -I IPADDRESS -U USERNAME%PASSWORD<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you omit the password section, you&#8217;ll be prompted for the password\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich might be more secure if you are worried about somebody looking through your terminal history. You can add the<span> <\/span><code>-f <\/code>parameter to force a shutdown, which might be necessary to make sure the remote machine actually shuts down.<\/p>\n<p>Now several factors may influence whether this technique actually works\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Firewalls, Routers and Gateways may prevent this from working&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0But in my informal testing, I have not seen a situation where this doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to remotely reboot a Windows box from your machine, the following tip can be useful&#8230; Any Macintosh OS X system can reboot a windows machine, assuming that you know the credentials of an Administrative Account on the Windows system. \u00c2\u00a0Open the Terminal and use the following command line: net rpc shutdown <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/shutting-down-a-windows-pc-from-a-macintosh\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,5,11],"tags":[84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->