restart service remotely

ok, i have 3 comps on my network. 1 WinXP Pro and 2 Win98 SE's. How would I go about restarting a service on the WinXP comp from either of the Win98 comps. - Thanks, Jim

You need to get some form of a remote connection utility like PCAnywhere or VNC . This will allow you to connect to the remote machine and control it as if you were on the actual computer.

search www.microsoft.com if there is a "terminal services client for windows 98".

windows XP has "pcanywhere" built-in

on the other hand, VNC is free, so why not?

it should also be possible with the "remote administration" service, but i don´t know if there is a client for the 9X-versions.

Thanks, I went with VNC and it did the trick.

I do like VNC, allows me to remote from a linux to windows box easily.

ok,vnc is cross-platform don´t know if there is a linux "windows terminal services client"....

I can't remember if you can run a telnet server from XP Pro. If you can, you could connect on telnet and restart the service that way (assuming you're not trying to restart telnet )

Alun Harford

There actually is a unix client for Windows Terminal Services that
in my experience works remarkably well called rdesktop.
I use rdesktop on my FreeBSD system to administer my
WinXP system. If you're running FreeBSD, rdesktop is
convieniently located in the ports tree. The rest of you can
download a source tarball at http://www.rdesktop.org.
The way TS works is kinda neat in that if you log into the console
of your XP system and start a handful of tasks, you can then
log in with rdesktop (or whatever TS client) and carry on from
where you left off. Unlike good old unix systems with ssh/telnet
though, only one user can log into TS at a time (at least under
XP PRO)