Re: remote shutdown



"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

kmon wrote:
Please help on remote shutdown problem

I was trying to follow the instruction from this microsoft kb
article
"http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sysprop_to_perform_a_remote_reboot.mspx?mfr=true";
Here is the step by step instruction

1.Open Computer Management (Local)

2.In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Local), and
then click Connect to another computer.

3.In the Select Computer dialog box, click Another computer, type
the name of the computer that you want to restart or shut down, and
then click OK. You can also click Browse to search for the name of
the computer.

4.In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Remote
computer name), and then click Properties.

5.On the Advanced tab, click Startup and Recovery.

6.Click Shut Down to open the Shut Down dialog box.

7.Under Action, select the actions you want to perform on the
computer to which you are connected.

8.Under Force Apps Closed, select the circumstances under which you
want to force applications to close when you shut down or restart
the computer, and then click OK.

However, when I got to step 4 and try to open properties, I got
"Win32: access is denied" error and blank computer management
window.
Can anyone tell me what do I need to do?
Remote computer is on peer network, and I can ping the remote
computer.

Does the account you are utilizing to do this have administrative rights on
the remote computer?
Remember - never just follow the steps of a solution and expect them to
work - there are usually pre-requisites or notes that tell you what things
*must* be true in order for the steps to work... In this case:

Note
. To open Computer Management, click Start, and then click Control
Panel. Click Performance and Maintenance, click Administrative Tools, and
then double-click Computer Management.

. You must be recognized as an administrator or a member of the
Administrators group on your computer and on the computer you are managing
to perform this task.




Can you not just use the command line tool:

shutdown

or the third party tool:

psshutdown

to remotely reboot/shutdown the system in question?

Those should work great - if you are a system administrator of the remote
system. Also, if you want - you could use a tool like PSEXEC and specify
the remote credentials to run shutdown.exe 'locally' on the machine and shut
it down.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html



Thanks Stanley, for reply
Yes, my account has administrator right, and the same result with using
shutdown tool from command prompt. I haven't tried any third party tool.
By the way, I was able to do this before. So I don't know if anything got
corrupted or what. I'm pretty sure I don't have any virus.
.

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