Turning off imac display whilst in windows, is it possible?

I'm currently downloading a large file and i have to leave my mac on over night, is there any way to turn off the the display, like in mac osx you hold down shift+control+eject to turn it off. I am using windows 7 ultimate

antis wrote:
zhiwlin wrote:Or you can download rdesktop (http://www.rdesktop.org) and compile (./configure, make, make install, make clean), then download tsclient (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tsclient) and compile (./configure, make, make install, make clean). Then run tsclient (I think the default is in /usr/local/bin folder).
But rdesktop is only a client for accessing windows terminal server... isn't it? Or is there a linux server available as well, because that is really what I'm looking for?
xrdp: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14654
seems strange to me thou. i stick to good old ssh X-forwarding or port-forwarding + vnc.
€: btw you don't need to compile rdesktop, its in the arch repos.
Last edited by mcover (2009-01-13 22:31:18)

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