Remote Shutdown

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

Pegasus
Tue May 20 12:29:18 PDT 2008


"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 www.sysinternals.com and poweroff.exe
from http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/poweroff/poweroff.htm. Enjoy!

JR
Tue May 20 14:42:25 PDT 2008

Thanks. Glad one of my awkward questions posted had an answer!

JR
Somerset

JR
Tue May 20 15:08:09 PDT 2008

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

Pegasus
Tue May 20 15:21:52 PDT 2008


"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!

al_v
Tue May 20 18:20:31 PDT 2008


It is happens because it uses shutdown command instead of poweroff tha
actuially shut pc down and turn power off.

You can also try this utility - 'RSHUT PRO' (http://www.rshut.com) tha
can perform all necessary actions regarding local and remote computer
power consumption

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