Hi Everyone, I want to use the shutdown feature of windows xp pro to shutdown another computer on my LAN remotely.
I have tried putting in shutdown \\COMPUTER-NAME and various other things in the command prompt but it doesnt work.
I also tried putting in shutdown -i to get the graphical shutdown dialog. I tried this, but when i click ok i get a message in the command prompt saying
Access is denied
Failed: \\COMPUTER-NAME
I tried using the browse feature in the graphical dialog but get this message: "The directory service is currently unavailable"I also have tried access properties of the computer in Compuer Management but get an error: "Win32: Access is denied"
I have an admin account on both computers
Don't use any shutdown commands myself, sorry can't help. here is my program info. 50 pages of Freeware
http://www.softpedia.com/dyn-search...
5 pages
http://www.softpedia.com/dyn-search...Here are a few for Lan, that I know about.
DShutdown
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System...
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreen...
http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/
LAN Shutdown Manager
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System...
PC Monitor Manager
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System...
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreen...
http://mobilepcmonitor.com/
LanShutDown
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Networ...
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreen...
http://lantricks.com/lanshutdown/in...
You mention that you have an Admin account on both systems. Do both admin accounts have the exact Userid/Password combination? Because the Shutdown command doesn't provide userid or password parameters, identical credentials must already exist on both systems. Then, the command would be: To Shutdown: shutdown - m \\remotecomputername
To Restart: shutdown -r - m \\remotecomputernameThe remote system will display a popup counting down from 30 seconds to shutdown.
If you want to change the default (30 sec) shutdown delay, include the -t seconds parameter.
For example, if you want to restart a remote system named "System2" and give the user 2 minutes to save files and exit programs you would use:
shutdown -r -t 120 -m \\System2
-- kptech
Isn't that a "net send" command? If so, you'll probably find that the "messenger" service is disabled on the remote machine (being the security risk it is). If you're smart, it'll also be disabled on your machine. The "net send" commands need that service to be running on both machines.
Please let us know if you found someone's advice to be helpful.