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by olson1or

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I am running winnt 4.0 SP5 on the server and all workstations. At certain times of the day we must ask all users to log off the workstations using ctrl+alt+del then logoff. This is done to allow the application we are using on the workstations to update some data files from the server. I would like to be able to do this from a batch file at the server. The workstations are using TCP/IP and DHCP. When the network was first installed we were using SP 1 and had a batch file to shutdown or reboot the workstations from the server. With SP 5 those no longer work.

Thank you for any help you may be able to provide.

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by kokanaveen

Hi
Why can't you check in the batch program, for the users to Re-Login when every the critical updates are done.
If you can go for Service Pack 6 on your server. Thats even more good than 5.

Thanks

by olson1or

The server/workstations we are using do not have the resource kit installed. I tried the rebootex at tucows but could only get it to logoff the server. I need it to logoff the workstations from a batch file at the server to permit me to selectively log off a few or all at once. Before we installed SP5 we had a command line that would reboot or shutdown a workstation. They no longer work. shutdown \\VDT2 /r /t:0 /Y /c

by olson1or

Tim,
I don't understand what I did but I wanted to close the question out but with a satisfactory review. PSSHUTDOWN and PSTOOLS did the trick for me. We still don't have logoff but we have shutdown/reboot and will have logoff when we get the system for a while again. Thank you very much
Dean

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