>hello ,
>I am writting an application which needs to be able to remotely shutdown,logoff or start any PC on our LAN. Its windows 2000 network and I know of some windows scripts which I could use however I want to do the whole thing in VFP.
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>I want to be able to issue a command with the PC's name and then logoff user or shutdown.
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>Does any one have any idea's on how best to tackle the problem.
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>Thanks for your help.
>
>James Macintyre

Just to get you going with the start any PC part: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN

Carlos