Remote Shutdown of HTPC

point decay · 2 Nov 2011 at 15:34

guys

as title, does anyone have any advice or links to some freeware that can help me do this, i have tried some of the guides online, but keep running into admin access problems.

tia

Participant · 2 Nov 2011 at 15:39

By remote do you mean from within LAN or from the WAN / internet?

What router do you have?

Do you have a smartphone?

point decay · 2 Nov 2011 at 15:42

the two PC's are over LAN, the idea is to switch off our HTPC without having to get off my butt from the other room.

the router is a DG834 GT (Sky)

both PC's running win 7

Deception · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:08

r3d zombie said:
the two PC's are over LAN, the idea is to switch off our HTPC without having to get off my butt from the other room.

the router is a DG834 GT (Sky)

both PC's running win 7

I normally make sure I can connect to the admin share. Then, bring up CMD and type in 'shutdown -m \\PCNAME -s -t 00'

-m means specify remote PC name
-s means to shut it down
-t 00 is the time countdown (I prefer it to instantly shut down)

failing that, just remote in to the PC
then type in 'shutdown -s -t 00' in command prompt.

marc2003 · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:09

make sure you have user accounts on each machine with admin rights. give them the same username/password combo and then you won't have any permissions problems.

Code:

shutdown -i

will give you a GUI or you can run a command line like...

Code:

shutdown -m \\htpc -t 0 -s

m is to specify a remote machine
t is the timeout (0)
s is to shutdown

EDIT: ^get the **** out of my head :eek:

point decay · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:11

thanks, had a try at that earlier but got an access denied (5). seems like an access problem somewhere but cant seem to work out where

Deception · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:12

r3d zombie said:
thanks, had a try at that earlier but got an access denied (5). seems like an access problem somewhere but cant seem to work out where

run CMD as administrator

point decay · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:12

my problem with setting up a password is that its a HTPC and has no keyboard attached

Deception · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:13

marc2003 said:
make sure you have user accounts on each machine with admin rights. give them the same username/password combo and then you won't have any permissions problems.

Code:

shutdown -i

will give you a GUI or you can run a command line like...

Code:

shutdown -m \\htpc -t 0 -s

m is to specify a remote machine
t is the timeout (0)
s is to shutdown

EDIT: ^get the **** out of my head

but its soo nice in here!

point decay · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:13

Deception said:
run CMD as administrator

will give that a try

Deception · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:14

r3d zombie said:
my problem with setting up a password is that its a HTPC and has no keyboard attached

is there no login password on the HTPC? You run CMD as admin on your PC, then run the commands.

*Edit Sorry, im being too fast here to reply

marc2003 · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:15

r3d zombie said:
will give that a try

running as admin on the local pc won't help if you don't have rights on the remote pc. if it's not configured with a password then you'll need to dust off some keyboard and sort it out.

Participant · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:16

If you have a smart phone use Unified Remote.

point decay · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:18

Deception said:
is there no login password on the HTPC? You run CMD as admin on your PC, then run the commands.

*Edit Sorry, im being too fast here to reply

tried running as admin, still getting the access denied (5), and yeah, there is no logon for either pc

Deception · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:21

r3d zombie said:
tried running as admin, still getting the access denied (5), and yeah, there is no logon for either pc

by default Windows wont let you do anything remotely without a password on the PC you want to control/log on to. So, you need to get a keyboard plugged (use yours as you only need to set a password)

point decay · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:23

marc2003 said:
running as admin on the local pc won't help if you don't have rights on the remote pc. if it's not configured with a password then you'll need to dust off some keyboard and sort it out.

i can plug in a keyboard no prob to set things up, but generally as its an HTPC there will be no keyboard connected, this is why i have no password setup on it.

what settings do i need to change on the HTPC to give my other pc full access?

Deception · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:25

r3d zombie said:
i can plug in a keyboard no prob to set things up, but generally as its an HTPC there will be no keyboard connected, this is why i have no password setup on it.

what settings do i need to change on the HTPC to give my other pc full access?

have an admin account set up on it with a password. You can use these to connect to it and then run commands on it, like the remote shutdown etc.

You may want to enable remote desktop too, just incase you want to connect to it at any point.

Once these are set up, you dont need the keyboard as you will be able to do it remotely

(although if you do use remote desktop, it will kick the HTPC back to the login screen, so only do it when you need to shut it down).

Once password has been set up, you need to run control userpasswords2 in the run box and set it to log in without prompting for password.

point decay · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:27

Deception said:
have an admin account set up on it with a password. You can use these to connect to it and then run commands on it, like the remote shutdown etc.

You may want to enable remote desktop too, just incase you want to connect to it at any point.

Once these are set up, you dont need the keyboard as you will be able to do it remotely

would i not need a keyboard to type a password at logon everytime?

randal · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:27

I've always used the Sysinternals pstools suite for tasks like this.

Pretty much the same as above though.

point decay · 2 Nov 2011 at 16:31

Deception said:
have an admin account set up on it with a password. You can use these to connect to it and then run commands on it, like the remote shutdown etc.

You may want to enable remote desktop too, just incase you want to connect to it at any point.

Once these are set up, you dont need the keyboard as you will be able to do it remotely (although if you do use remote desktop, it will kick the HTPC back to the login screen, so only do it when you need to shut it down).

Once password has been set up, you need to run control userpasswords2 in the run box and set it to log in without prompting for password.

cheers will go give it a try