Running Program on server from another network computer

[BomberBear]

I'm sharing an ISDN connection over a wireless network. The modem for the ISDN has usb out so I'm running it to the main desktop computer and from the computer I'm running it to my wireless router.

Everything works. I can access the internet from my wireless laptop and access shared files between the two.

What I'm wanting to do is be able to shutdown the main desktop computer from my laptop without running fancy software to do it. I have everything needed to shut down the computer in the shared folder which resides on the desktop computer. But of course when I run the shortcut from my laptop (going through the shared folder on the main computer) it shutsdown my laptop rather then the desktop computer.

Basically all I want to do is run a program from the network and have this program run on the computer that it resides on rather then the computer that it is being run from.
Thanks

[bchur83]

You could do it with VNC:

http://www.realvnc.com

[cack01]

I perfer UltraVNC personally. :)

Other stuff that may be of use:
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=211790&highlight=shutdown+network (see post #6)
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/smartshutdown.html
http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/poweroff/poweroff.htm

[kct2]

If both machines are running XP just use the remote desktop connection, no need to download anything.

XP also has a command line utility called shutdown.exe, just type 'shutdown' in a command prompt window and it will display the command line variables. 'shutdown -i' will bring up an easy to use GUI version of it.

[Fightingpiper]

But TightVNC (http://www.tightvnc.com/) works the best of them all.... :santa:

[BomberBear]

ok, I was wrong. My network isn't setup correctly. on my desktop computer all I can see is that computers shared files and that computer under workgroup computers. On the laptop I can see both computers shared files but I still only see the laptop under workgroup computers. I've used the network setup wizard and put them both on the same workgroup and have restarted both computers... I don't know where to go from this.

After thinking about this... I'm not sure how to get it to work. I have the cable from the desktop computer going into the port that would normally come from a modem, so it makes sense that it wouldn't be trying to share anything more than the internet (and it's just carrying the shared files along with the internet). Now I tried moving the plug over and treating the router as a switch instead which I would have thought would help get everything working. But when I try this nothing works at all (no internet, no files). Any ideas? Maybe a router setting?