Brennan Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 I know windows XP has a built in shutdown command so I could remote shutdown other windows machines but every time I try it, it says access denied. I was wondering if anyone knew how to get this working Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothCriminal Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Are you an administrator? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shido Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Firtly you need to be admin and secondly you need to know the ip of the pc you shutting down then what you do is run this command shutdown -m \\ipaddress -s You replace ipaddress with the persons ip or the computer name i cant really remember its long since i did this. Oh and you have to be part of the network obviously Alternativly you can get third party utilities to do this for you and microsoft also made utils for this. Besides that if you running a server os to shut dpwn a client on the network then they come with powerful tools that can probably do this. Hope that helped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brennan Posted October 27, 2008 Author Share Posted October 27, 2008 yes I am admin I was using the shutdown -i command for the gui ODK if there is a diff between using the gui and command line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 yes I am admin I was using the shutdown -i command for the gui ODK if there is a diff between using the gui and command line Where you authenticated as an admin on the remote computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brennan Posted October 27, 2008 Author Share Posted October 27, 2008 nope how would I do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingleBerries Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 EDIT: nevermind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th3bigguy Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Once your authenticated then run the command above with the -f and -t 00...the -f is for force shutdown and the -t 00 is time until it powers off. BTW you can use your command shell and run shutdown -? to get all the switches. You might want to check out the psexec tools also. They are nice for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tcstool Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Agreed w/above. Pstools features a utility called psshutdown for remotely shutting machines off. It works very, very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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