How to tell PC to shutdown over network?

Bubo · 27 Dec 2009 at 15:00

On your average home network is there a way to send a command from one PC to tell another PC on the same network to gracefully shutdown?

Alexrose1uk · 27 Dec 2009 at 15:04

If you're running remote support software yes, otherwise not that Im aware, think of the sort of problems this sort of functionality could cause!

m4cc45 · 27 Dec 2009 at 15:05

From command line

shutdown /m IP-OR-MACHINE-NAME /t 00

Helps if you use the same account with admin priviledges on both machines or it's hard to do. So if you have the same admin account with same password doing the above will work.

M.

m4cc45 · 27 Dec 2009 at 15:05

P.S. You can click start run then type shutdown -i which will give you a nice interface for it.

Bubo · 27 Dec 2009 at 15:39

Spiffing. Thanks m8.

doggs · 27 Dec 2009 at 21:43

PsShutdown is a great tool for this. It can logoff, shutdown, or restart remote computers.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897541.aspx

ReeVo.uK · 28 Dec 2009 at 01:40

I smell mischief

Bubo · 28 Dec 2009 at 17:44

m4cc45 said:
From command line

shutdown /m IP-OR-MACHINE-NAME /t 00

Helps if you use the same account with admin priviledges on both machines or it's hard to do. So if you have the same admin account with same password doing the above will work.

I'm having problems getting this to work. It keeps telling me "access is denied". I use the exact same account name and password on both machines, both are "administrator" on the user account screen. One machine is Vista Home Premium, the other is Windows 7 Home. I can set up network shares and the like but it just doesn't want to accept the shutdown command.

Dewotter · 28 Dec 2009 at 17:51

Bubo said:
I'm having problems getting this to work. It keeps telling me "access is denied". I use the exact same account name and password on both machines, both are "administrator" on the user account screen. One machine is Vista Home Premium, the other is Windows 7 Home. I can set up network shares and the like but it just doesn't want to accept the shutdown command.

Are you running an elevated command line?

That is searching for cmd in start search, then right clicking and choosing run as administrator?

Bubo · 28 Dec 2009 at 18:47

RKO said:
Are you running an elevated command line?

That is searching for cmd in start search, then right clicking and choosing run as administrator?

Yes, tried that, its simply not having it.