Guest JR Posted May 20, 2008 Posted May 20, 2008 Another awkward question - sorry. Trying to shut down remotely a Win2 server. Using shutdown.exe from command line "shutdown -s -m \\server /-t10" for 10 second delay. Shuts down server but does NOT shut down the PC, leaving the old fashioned "It is now safe to turn off your computer" message. Shutdown.exe is 5.1.2600.2180 HOW can I also get it to turn off the computer? This is needed as I want to shutdown from other side of the world and as only file server without AD can only access a desktop on another machine through pcanywhere. Thanks JR Somerset
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted May 20, 2008 Posted May 20, 2008 Re: Remote Shutdown "JR" <JR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FD033473-4BF8-4900-8813-6E60677A7BBB@microsoft.com... > Another awkward question - sorry. > > Trying to shut down remotely a Win2 server. Using shutdown.exe from > command > line > "shutdown -s -m \\server /-t10" for 10 second delay. Shuts down server > but does NOT shut down the PC, leaving the old fashioned "It is now safe > to > turn off your computer" message. Shutdown.exe is 5.1.2600.2180 > > HOW can I also get it to turn off the computer? > > This is needed as I want to shutdown from other side of the world and as > only file server without AD can only access a desktop on another machine > through pcanywhere. > > Thanks > JR > Somerset Awkward question indeed! This one had me intrigued, so I poked around a fair bit. All of the references I found referred to hal.dll, the PowerDownAfterShutdown registry entry or to APM drivers, none of which helped. However, I struck paydirt with this command: psexec.exe \\ComputerName c:\poweroff.exe poweroff You can get psexec.exe from http://www.sysinternals.com and poweroff.exe from http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/poweroff/poweroff.htm. Enjoy!
Guest JR Posted May 20, 2008 Posted May 20, 2008 Re: Remote Shutdown Thanks. Glad one of my awkward questions posted had an answer! JR Somerset
Guest JR Posted May 20, 2008 Posted May 20, 2008 Re: Remote Shutdown MAYBE of more interest to others After looking through the Sysinternals pages found this http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897541.aspx which replaces shutdown.exe and "kills" the remote JR
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted May 20, 2008 Posted May 20, 2008 Re: Remote Shutdown "JR" <JR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EFCC2950-90F5-48B8-9B36-550919541369@microsoft.com... > MAYBE of more interest to others > After looking through the Sysinternals pages > found this > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897541.aspx > which replaces shutdown.exe and "kills" the remote > > > JR Nice!
Guest al_v Posted May 21, 2008 Posted May 21, 2008 Re: Remote Shutdown It is happens because it uses shutdown command instead of poweroff that actuially shut pc down and turn power off. You can also try this utility - 'RSHUT PRO' (http://www.rshut.com) that can perform all necessary actions regarding local and remote computers power consumption. -- al_v ------------------------------------------------------------------------ al_v's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=49951 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=972007 http://forums.techarena.in
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