Remotely Shutting down computer

[pea33nut]

My buddy that I work with always shuts down my computer from his computer. Im not sure how he does it but I would like to find out. I get a message box with a count down until when my computer will shut down. We use windows 2000 server.

Thanks

JN

 

[Cooky]

It's hard to find out how he's doing that w/o asking him.
I've seen scripts and system management software out there that would shut down a remote machine like what you're experiencing.

 

[JRock]

psshutdown

 

[ITJunkie]

shutdown.exe...

 

[pea33nut]

He can also turn it off if he wants

 

[ITJunkie]

Originally posted by: pea33nut
He can also turn it off if he wants

Shutdown.exe gives you the option of rebooting or shutting down by clicking a check box.
Do a search on MS site to find it. I believe it comes on the Win2K Resource CD (?)
I use it a lot to schedule after-hours reboot of servers.

 

[JRock]

Originally posted by: ITJunkie

Originally posted by: pea33nut
He can also turn it off if he wants

Shutdown.exe gives you the option of rebooting or shutting down by clicking a check box.
Do a search on MS site to find it. I believe it comes on the Win2K Resource CD (?)
I use it a lot to schedule after-hours reboot of servers.

What if the system boots to a bluescreen and you don't know till the next morning

 

[ITJunkie]

Originally posted by: JRock

Originally posted by: ITJunkie

Originally posted by: pea33nut
He can also turn it off if he wants

Shutdown.exe gives you the option of rebooting or shutting down by clicking a check box.
Do a search on MS site to find it. I believe it comes on the Win2K Resource CD (?)
I use it a lot to schedule after-hours reboot of servers.

What if the system boots to a bluescreen and you don't know till the next morning

Ya...that one sucks and makes for a wonderful start of the day

 

[JRock]

Originally posted by: ITJunkie

Originally posted by: JRock

Originally posted by: ITJunkie

Originally posted by: pea33nut
He can also turn it off if he wants

Shutdown.exe gives you the option of rebooting or shutting down by clicking a check box.
Do a search on MS site to find it. I believe it comes on the Win2K Resource CD (?)
I use it a lot to schedule after-hours reboot of servers.

What if the system boots to a bluescreen and you don't know till the next morning

Ya...that one sucks and makes for a wonderful start of the day

Even more wonderful if it's your Exchange Sever and you need to rebuild it

 

[nweaver]

pstools is great. Not as needed with 2K and 2k3 res kits though

 

[pea33nut]

I tried this but it did not work. It gives me a list of other commands that can be used.

shutdown \\sa /t:30 "test" /y /c

 

[Joemonkey]

shutdown /s /m \\computername

should work, you can type

shutdown /i

for a GUI

however, if it is truly locked up, you may be screwed

 

[pea33nut]

Thanks Joemonkey, that is what I was looking for. Now I just need to figure out how to do add time & cancel it.

 

[Joemonkey]

adding time is easy

shutdown /s /m \\computername /t 300

is 5 minutes w/ warning. To cancel:

shutdown /a /m \\computername