I have found another useful way to accomplish this. If you have installed
Tomcat as a Windows service, then you can easily call that service from a remote pc. This way you will not have to run startup.bat and shutdown.bat. If you did not install Tomcat as a service, uninstall it and then go download it from the Apache site again. Then you can choose the option to install it as a service (you will have to download the .exe version from the Apache site).
Once it is installed as a Windows service, then you can access that service by following these steps:
1. On the remote pc, open up the 'Administrative Tools' and then navigate to 'Services'.
2. In the left hand pane, right click on 'Services'. Choose 'Connect to another computer ...'. Enter in the host pc's ip address.
3. Once you have connected you will see the list of services on the host pc. To start and stop (or restart at once), just right click on the Apache Tomcat service.
Note: You may have to enable remote service sharing on the host pc.
Let me know if you have any more questions!