Would this work with my Dad's AMD K-6 with 98SE?
Yes, actually it will. In fact, it works on the following target OSes:
Windows Server 2003
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 98
However, there's a few things to keep in mind. It uses pass through authentication so it can get a bit flaky when using local accounts versus domain accounts across a network. You MUST have local administrative rights on the target computer.
Where I work, we have over 730 Windows servers and this tool works great on all of them. However, every one of these servers are members of a domain that my workstation is also a member of. I log into the domain with an account that is in the "Domain Admins" group, which happens to be a member of the local administrators group on all of these servers. So of course, in an environment like this, the tool is quite useful.
However last night, I tried to bounce a Windows XP Professional workstation that was a member of Domain A. My laptop from where I was running the tool was a member of Domain B. Now, under these circumstances, the reboot will fail. I even tried connecting to an SMB share on the remote XP machine prior to attempting the reboot. When connecting to the share, it asked for credentials, which I supplied for Domain A, giving me a good solid connection to the remote computer. However the reboot still failed.
At this point, I'm not sure if it was the windows Firewall (on the remote computer) that was blocking it, or even with a connected session, the pass through authentication was trying to authenticate with the Domain B credentials instead of the Domain A ones.
Also, although I have not had the opportunity to test it yet, this tool "should" work across a Peer to Peer (workgroup) network. If anyone tries this with two seperate Workgroup computers make sure you are logged on with a local account on your computer that has the exact same name and passwords as a local account with administrative privledges on the target PC. If it works, let me know (you'll save me some time testing it myself). I know this isn't a likely scenario or a convienient one, but again, this tool wasn't really designed for this type of scenario, it's a System Administrators tool for a Domain environment where you have administrative privileges.
