turn on a pc, remotely...

[isi.catch]

i was wondering if anyone knows a how to remotely controll the power to a terminal on a lan. im guessing there is some sort of hardware device i need to plug in.... any suggestions ??

 

[Random717]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN

 

[Tsimo]

and solarwinds has a free wol util

 

[krycor]

awesome, I always wondered how to do this

 

[kronoSX]

Sorry im hijacking a part of this thread ,but was wondering is there a program that can switch a pc on at a certain time.and when it switches on to windows it will start a app after like 1 min.
Is there such a program.(pc is shut down.not in sleep mode)
dont ask me to google.please.

 

[Darth Garth]

dont ask me to google.please.

So you are just too bloody lazy ???.

 

[Fudzy]

Lol, anyone ever use Wake On Ring? I used to phone my PC on my way home from work

 

[rsachoc]

Sorry im hijacking a part of this thread ,but was wondering is there a program that can switch a pc on at a certain time.and when it switches on to windows it will start a app after like 1 min.
Is there such a program.(pc is shut down.not in sleep mode)
dont ask me to google.please.

Google says look in the BIOS, some mobo's have this functionality. For the app running after 1 min, not sure, why do you need it to run after 1 min?

 

[kiepie]

Maybe its a slow pc...

Only thing I can think of is to start it up with windows.

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

You could use a vbs logon script.

Option Explicit
Dim objShell
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WScript.Sleep 1500
objShell.Run "full path of the file e.g. C:\Data\Example.doc"
WScript.Quit

the 1500 = 1.5 seconds....change this to 60000 for a minute.
also change objShell.Run "x" to the pathname of the exe or bat file of the program you want to run.

As for the automatic power on make sure your BIOS battery is in good working order so that if there is such a command BIOS will kick in

Anyways take my script above and copy/paste to a text document and save this new text document as vbs file. If the document doesnt turn into a blue-ish icon or remains as a txt file then make sure you goto windows explorer/tools/view/hide file extensions for known types and uncheck this. Then rename the text file to something.vbs without any txt extensions.

Lastly if the vbs script works add it to your logon script. This is a mission in itself if you dont know how so ask around or google it.

Hope this helps

 

[Datura]

This may work.

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

Hey Datura. Im assuming that sig says something like "Telkom can suck my balls and I dont give a ****"

Otherwise your link didnt work cause we use a proxy here and that site was rejected it isnt a porn site is it??? lol

 

[Random717]

You could use a vbs logon script.

/me copy pastes, thanks dude

 

[Sn00zE]

http://www.simply-ware.com/ (no maleware) << best WOL and other apps on the net!!!
Me and one of the other IT guys have been testing WOL on the domain.. Works wonders!!!

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

/me copy pastes, thanks dude

No prob

vbs scripts are pretty cool. Just yesterday I made a script that copies a users important files to his/her network drive as a backup. All they do is double click it and it can be customized per user very easily

Pity the company I work for are so tied up with policies and problems I will probably not be able to use it one major concern is that both our fileservers have less than 10gig left for user storage !!!!! and this is an international company i work for LOL!!

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oh and did I mention I only found out about vbs scripts less than a week ago...they so easy to make

 

[Random717]

lol, I got similar problems, I've started using pc's in my lab as backup servers because there are no funds for normal servers. I've been dabbling with batch files to get stuff done, but these vbs scripts I've come across look pretty nifty. I think its time to start learning how to do them properly..

 

[xistenz]

http://www.simply-ware.com/ (no maleware)

No maleware??? Is it just femaleware? Lingerie perhaps?

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

lol, I got similar problems, I've started using pc's in my lab as backup servers because there are no funds for normal servers. I've been dabbling with batch files to get stuff done, but these vbs scripts I've come across look pretty nifty. I think its time to start learning how to do them properly..

http://computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/logon_scripts.htm

This site has some nice logon scripts and vbs info.

Also try http://www.devguru.com/technologies/vbscript/index.asp for some extra bit of code.

 

[Goobie]

i was wondering if anyone knows a how to remotely controll the power to a terminal on a lan. im guessing there is some sort of hardware device i need to plug in.... any suggestions ??

You need this piece of hardware, it can independently switch on (or off) 4 different appliances via a LAN or the web.

http://www.miro.co.za/v2.1/static.php?MainSection=Product&product=358

EDIT

...and when you get a price for that unit, please post it here, would like to know how much Miro ask for it. Thanks.

 

[Random717]

http://computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/logon_scripts.htm

This site has some nice logon scripts and vbs info.

Also try http://www.devguru.com/technologies/vbscript/index.asp for some extra bit of code.

oooh nice, I'm wondering where I've been that I'm only discovering this stuff now thanks