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remote shutdown
Name: Rob Date: July 11, 2003 at 16:02:50 Pacific OS: WinXP Home CPU/Ram: P3 866
Comment:
I am trying to use the shutdown command (shutdown.exe) to remotely shutdown other computers on my peer2peer network (all xp). If I do it thru the command line, it says, "The network path was not found." If I try it via the -i switch (graphical display), and I hit browse, it says, "The Directory Service is currently unavailable." Do I need active directory running on a server or something?
Summary: Hi everyone, I am trying to use a net command to remotely shutdown and reboot windows xp machines, such as "shutdown -r -m \\computername ". When I try this, I get an error "Access is denied." I run ...
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