Here is a useful way to bring an unresponsive Netware server down quickly – one step safer than pulling out the power cord...

At the console, press and hold right-alt, right-shift, left-shift then press ESC. The hidden debug screen will then be displayed. Type ‘q’ to quit, then ‘y’ to confirm.

One instantly dead Netware server J

Just a quickie that comes up quite often – how to disconnect the console user on a remote server, in particular, a Windows 2000 server where you can’t use RDP to connect directly to the console itself; i.e. you can’t mstsc /console or /admin (depending on the version of the RDP client).

If you’ve not already got a copy of the Sysinternals Suite on you system, grab a copy from Microsoft’s site as the tool you’ll need is PsShutdown. At a command prompt, type the following:

PSSHUTDOWN \\remoteserver -O -F -T 0

You can then verify the session has been logged out with the following:

QWINSTA /server:remoteserver