Comments on: How to use the remote shutdown command in Windows

By: kakadu

kakadu — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:28:04 +0000

if you know some user on remote machine you can first open connection and then execute remote shutdown

net use \\machine /USER:
shutdown -s -f -m \\machine

By: Ankit

Ankit — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:13:23 +0000

Hi I’m a system admin and this is really useful for me as I monitor user PCs on the network and have to shut down them occassionally…..Thanks

By: Lesa

Lesa — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:28:12 +0000

I used this and it worked great thanks.

By: Shari

Shari — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 +0000

This information was very helpful for me in managing a remote server. I needed to reboot it and so I modified a few commands and it worked. Thanks.

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:57:38 +0000

Try this tool to shutdown, restart PCs. It works within domain and workgroups.

profshutdown.com/features.aspx

By: jlibrary

jlibrary — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:04:34 +0000

Hi. What about with windows 7? What settings do I need to preset on Windows 7 to be able to remotely shutdown? I am using an XP machine to shutdown 4 XP computers & 6 Windows 7 computers. The XPs shutdow, but I haven’t got the 7s to shutdown yet. Any thoughts?
Thanks

By: sauryanjan

sauryanjan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:26:46 +0000

hi,
i get error msg “access denied” when i try to shut down pc’s conneted through lan. tell me how to take the administrator plivilages and log into the remote pc to shut it down.
mail at- sauryanjan@aol.com

By: Mobi

Mobi — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:45:17 +0000

It gave me an error that “no network path found”…..can someone help?????

By: Raju

Raju — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:31:50 +0000

I want to know how I can shut down a remote computer using DOS and without the administrator privilege ? i am working on a client side

By: Adrylan

Adrylan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:09:52 +0000

Great post! Is there any way to find out which computer shut down your computer remotely?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:10:05 +0000

For simple computer networks (no domain) three things will help getting the networked computer to shutdown remotely. From an “Admin” command prompt type gpedit.msc. Look under Local Computer Config; computer config; Windows Setting; User Rights;—- check to see that Users can shut down the system (this is for local shutdown), next check Force shutdown from a remote system, has the “User” that you want to be able to shut the computer down remotely. (this account of course needs to be on both computers and have the same name and password–duh).

Next back at cmd type regedt32 and find HKLM SYSTEM CURRENTCONTROLSET CONTROL LSA then the name key for forceguest and set to 0. Normally the administrator can do remote commands, but you can enalbe anybody to do this. Also do this to ControlSet### and a reboot may also hep. Of course, perform a group update… gpudate /force

By: Muthu

Muthu — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:16:38 +0000

Hi, I have connected my remote machine through VPN, due to some reason its disconnected often and then I used to request somebody to restart. I’m getting ‘Access is denied’ message when using shutdown -r -m \\remotemachine name. but in my local machine I loged on the user which have the administrator privileges.

Is there anyway to do this?

By: Emascate

Emascate — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:38:18 +0000

To remotely access the computer you want to restart , do the following at the computer: Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy> Local Policies > User Rights Assignment. Double click “Shut Down the System” and click Add User or Group. Type “Everyone” without quotes click OK. The same procedure must be done in “Force Shutdown from a Remote System”. Reboot. Now shutdown works!

By: Isabelle

Isabelle — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:00 +0000

If you’re going to remotely shutdown computers, it’s best to run it from a server using a Domain Administrator account, otherwise you will get Access is Denied errors. My 2 cents.

By: arun kumar

arun kumar — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:50:52 +0000

When I use the command shutdown -s -m \\smart10, Access is denied message comes even if I have full administrative power??