Guest geekyguy Posted July 26, 2008 Posted July 26, 2008 Hi All: I have 2003 domain with a number of member servers. One of the servers is unresponsive...I can ping it from other computers on the subnet, but can't access it with remote desktop. I tried to restart it using the interactive shutdown dialog...when I "browsed" for computers it came up in AD (although I realize that may not mean anything). However, the "remote shutdown dialog" just hang's when I select "restart", no matter what computer I try from, including the PDC when I'm logged in as the domain admin. Is it not possible to restart the server this way? Or is there anything else I can try?
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 26, 2008 Posted July 26, 2008 Re: can't restart remote server 2003 with shutdown -i? "geekyguy" <geeky@guy.com> wrote in message news:u0MGUo07IHA.4536@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Hi All: I have 2003 domain with a number of member servers. One of the > servers is unresponsive...I can ping it from other computers on the > subnet, but can't access it with remote desktop. > > I tried to restart it using the interactive shutdown dialog...when I > "browsed" for computers it came up in AD (although I realize that may not > mean anything). However, the "remote shutdown dialog" just hang's when I > select "restart", no matter what computer I try from, including the PDC > when I'm logged in as the domain admin. > > Is it not possible to restart the server this way? Or is there anything > else I can try? I have been in similar predicaments. The only solution I found was to get someone to look at the console and perhaps force a dirty reboot.
Guest geekyguy Posted July 27, 2008 Posted July 27, 2008 Re: can't restart remote server 2003 with shutdown -i? >> Hi All: I have 2003 domain with a number of member servers. One of the >> servers is unresponsive...I can ping it from other computers on the >> subnet, but can't access it with remote desktop. >> >> I tried to restart it using the interactive shutdown dialog...when I >> "browsed" for computers it came up in AD (although I realize that may not >> mean anything). However, the "remote shutdown dialog" just hang's when I >> select "restart", no matter what computer I try from, including the PDC >> when I'm logged in as the domain admin. >> >> Is it not possible to restart the server this way? Or is there anything >> else I can try? > > I have been in similar predicaments. The only solution I found was to > get someone to look at the console and perhaps force a dirty reboot. Thanks for the sympathy! Fortunately I had a pair of remote hands to initiate a reboot.
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