Connect to a remote desktop

Question

I would like to remotely control a windows server from Linux Ubuntu. I am able to connect using the rdesktop command I was however wondering if there is a possibility to, for example, restart a service, or manually pull the server out of a pool, restart it and put it back simply using the command line.

If you know about any useful commands that would be great :) I am however simply trying to figure out if this is actually even possible as I am new to Linux...

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You are basically asking about how to control Windows from the command line. If you are able to connect to the screen of a Windows PC and open a socalled "dosbox" you can issue any command you like (and your permissions grant to you)

Services can be controlled with the sc command, a restart can be used with the shutdown command. Besides that you can call many more functions, from the classic command line or even with Powershell.

But all of this is based on manual interaction.