...I can't phsically access the networked box, but do have admin rights and management through the mmc console. Problem is, I assigned a static ip address on the box as I wanted it to be assigned the first ip from the router(10.42.43.3) and now remote desktop simply 'won't work'.
Network shares are still available, but I need some way to reset the network card remotely either by a snap-in for the mmc or by some network command to reboot a PC????
It's using port 80 (http) for connections. Compared to RDC it's much easier to set up and control computers over the Internet. Teamviewer also has some other things, like presentation mode and file transfer. If you're gonna use it in a local network, you might look at this: http://support.teamviewer.com/ ... articleid=40&nav=0,13
If you've set the ip address on the machine to static restarting it won't change the setting back to automatic. As far as I know windows doesn't have any kind of running configuration that gets set back to saved defaults when restarted, so a restart won't achieve what you want.
Having said that assuming I'm wrong, can you telnet to the machine?
Go to command prompt and type
telnet <ip address of remote machine>
You'll be prompted for a username and password. Log in with administrative credentials and then just enter the following at the prompt:
shutdown -r -f -t 01
-f : to force any running aps to close
-t : to make it restart after 1 second, (rather than 20)
Machine should automatically reboot and the telnet session will be terminated. All you'll see is that the telnet session isn't responding any more. A way to double check the machine has started to restart is to have another command prompt open at the same time running
ping -t <ip address of remote machine>
this will continously ping the machine in question, when you stop getting ping responses you'll know the machine has started to restart.
Edited to add -
If telnet isn't installed on your machine give putty a try, it's a straight executable no installation required.
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