Reboot windows when nobody logged in

[Alex K. Angelopoulos]

In news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0302140755490.18107-100000 at x.opf.slu.cz, Lukas Kubin
typed:
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> Thank you for your reply.
> My code works fine when anybody is logged on. But it doesn't when there's
> the login window of Novell. Then I send the signal, nothing happens; I log
> in or just (!) press Esc and it reboots.
> I know almost nothing about Windows programming. So WMI says nothing to
> me. Could you please let me know more about it? How to call that
> reboot method? Do you mean I should not use ExitWindowsEx() ?
> Thanks.

If you don't know much about programming, you may not want to run after WMI
right away.  It sounds to me like the signal is being caught, but isn't being
processed until you log in.  How does the TCP service work?  I assume it runs at
startup...


> lukas
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> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote:
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>> In addition to your comments, Lukas -
>>
>> I've successfully implemented code which reboots XP using the
>> ExitWindowsEx function after performing token adjustment.  Based on your
>> description, I would try testing it while logged on interactively.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> This will tell us whether the problem is technical details of method you
>> are using to call it (in which case it will fail there), or related to
>> environment/privileges of the account running it when no one is logged
>> on.
>>
>> By the way, if it makes a difference, you don't need any of this with
>> 2000/XP to perform a remote reboot.  You can use WMI, which is
>> accessible to Python, and call the Reboot Method in class
>> Win32_OperatingSystem.
>>
>> Depending on your situation, this might be a feasible solution.
>>
>> --
>>
>> "Lukas Kubin" <kubin at opf.slu.cz> wrote in message
>> news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0302130829010.14458-100000 at x.opf.slu.cz...
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>>> I don't have the book but I've tried the RebootServer.py script from the
>>> examples archive. It didn't work for me. Could you tell me, please, how
>>> did you implement the reboot code to work while waiting for login? How
>>> did you let it know you wish to reboot?
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> lukas
>>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, dsavitsk wrote:
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>>>> "Lukas Kubin" <kubin at opf.slu.cz> wrote in message
>>>> news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0302121331021.31917-100000 at x.opf.slu.cz...
>>>>> I need to code a program rebooting windows xp, when nobody is logged
>>>>> on. It means the computer is in the state with login window on. I
>>>>> have a simple windows service waiting for a tcp connection which
>>>>> should cause the reboot. I use the Python's win32api function
>>>>> ExitWindowsEx() but nothing happens.  When I test the reboot when
>>>>> anybody is logged on, it works. (Yes I've done all the
>>>>> AdjustPrivilege etc. already). Does anybody have experience doing
>>>>> such code?
>>>>
>>>> There is an example of how to reboot a remote computer which is
>>>> included (i think) in both win32all and Mark's book.  It works on a
>>>> computer at the login screen in win2k, but I can't speak to XP.
>>>>
>>>> -d
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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> Lukas Kubin
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> phone: +420696398285
> email: kubin at opf.slu.cz
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> Information centre
> The School of Business Administration in Karvina
> Silesian University in Opava
> Czech Republic
> http://www.opf.slu.cz
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