[plug] policy issue - need to restart computers

[Garth Atkinson]

Did you try the Microsoft Users Group (MUG) ? This requirement must
of already be satisifed somewhere in the world.


Garth

Hasleby Mike wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> Sorry if this causes offense and if the powers that be object to me
> posting this please feel free to remove it - no offense taken but
> 
> This isn't a linux question but this group seems most likely to be able
> to help me solve our problem
> Our school uses linux file servers and we have a policy that students
> can't use a computer unless they log on to the studentnet domain.  The
> policy is enforceable with win98 machines (about 1/2 them are) but not
> 95.  After 18 months, students have recently found they can change the
> domain from "studentnet" to anything - usually done by adding a period
> at the end of the domain so when the computer was restarted the change
> wouldn't be spotted and the poor student trying to log on wouldn't have
> access to their h: drive (home dir on the server).  After about 20
> seconds of trying to find the newly named domain Win95 gives up and
> yields itself over to be used anyway (minus an h: drive).
> 
> I know that you can run a line in debug ( -g=ffff:0000) which runs the
> P.O.S.T) hence restarts the computer but I'm wondering if anyone knows
> how to restart the computer from the dos prompt (or knows of a small
> program or any other way of doing so).  (Unfortunately neither the debug
> trick nor a program called "restart" work in the windows environment.  I
> need to find something that will.
> 
> If this is possible we can write a program that tests to see if there is
> an H: drive present - if so fine, if not, the computer displays a
> warning message that the domain studentnet must be accessed before the
> computer can be used, then restarts.
> 
> TIA
> Mike Hasleby