   Shuting down a computer over the internet
  is it possible to make a program to shut down a computer via accessing it through the internet even if the computor does not have an application to be accessed by it. say i wanted to shut down the computer at my neighbors house excluding their firewall etc.. i waant to make a program that can just shut down the computer without me having to make a server type application to recieve the shutdown commandthanks in advance   
  Not extremely knowledged in this kind of thing, but I think you may run into some security issues unless the computer you are shutting down has some sort of application to receive your message.  Otherwise whats to stop anyone from just sending this "shutdown" command to a computer...   ;  Strange as it may seem, operating systems are designed to prohibit exactly this sort of thing. Since you and your 'neighbours' are on such good terms (what with them trusting you to remotely shutdown their computer at random), you'd be far better off using that dreaded server.   ;  no no im doing this for fun the neighbor thing was an example i just wanna be able to shutdown any computer in my house (got three)   ;  Windows has a shutdown command that appears to be capable of remote shutdowns. Of course I'm sure you need the appropriate permissions on the remote machine, but I'm sure that's fine with your own computers :)   ;  useshutdown /m <ip address> /sor install vnc. www.realvnc.com <- prob the easier and safer option   ;  I'd be more interested in turning them on...   ;Quote:Original post by owlI'd be more interested in turning them on...More difficult, but far from impossible. Most modern motherboards and network cards support this.   ;Quote:Original post by SneftelQuote:Original post by owlI'd be more interested in turning them on...More difficult, but far from impossible. Most modern motherboards and network cards support this.Indeed.  See: Wake-on-LAN (Wikipedia)John B   ;Quote:Original post by rfterdarcuseshutdown /m <ip address> /sor install vnc. www.realvnc.com <- prob the easier and safer optionVNC would be insane to open up over the internet unless you tunnel it. Not just because it would be slow, but it would be extremely insecure. Look at ssh. You can get ssh with cygwin on windows and setup a server with it.   