remote shutdown

Johnw September 21, 2011 at 03:24:24

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...

kptech September 21, 2011 at 10:46:55

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 \\remotecomputername The 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

Sci-Guy September 21, 2011 at 15:30:57

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.