Windows Shutdown

[Brennan]

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

[SmoothCriminal]

Are you an administrator?

[shido]

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

[Brennan]

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

[Sparda]

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?

[Brennan]

nope how would I do that?

[DingleBerries]

EDIT:

nevermind

[th3bigguy]

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.

[Tcstool]

Agreed w/above. Pstools features a utility called psshutdown for remotely shutting machines off. It works very, very well.