i have a problem running remote shutdown on my windows XP network for example: let's call the immediate computer A, and the remote target B if i were to type "shutdown -m B" DOS replies "access is denied" does anyone know how i can change these access rights either from the host or from the target? any help would be greatly appreciated. thx :)

sry that should have been if i type "shutdown -m B -r" but it does the same thing for all the other variables aswell

Excuse me for asking where do you get M$-DOS from, are you running off boot disks?? There is Command Prompt in the NT family and though M$-DOS commands may work in both there are subtle differences..... http://www.ss64.com/nt/

if you wih to run dos in any version of windows: click start; click run; type "cmd" he program will appear windowed on the desktop