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Scheduling automatic shutdown of NT4 pc?

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by lt1transamgt 1 view

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Can anyone tell me if there is a way to schedule an automatic shutdown of a NT 4 workstation? I would like to forcibly shutdown certain workstations on the network at a partiucular time every night. I would like to set something and let it run on it's own. Thanks.

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by kevin h.

The AT commands allow you do to here is an example.
THE SHUTDOWN UTILITY
Use the Shutdown.exe utility that's shipped with the Windows NT
Resource Kit to reboot the local machine. An example of the usage is
Shutdown /l/r/c/y. The command line arguments add flexibility to the
utility. Use /l to shut down the local machine, /r to reboot, /c to
close all programs, and /y to avoid having to answer Yes to prompts.
You can also use this utility in conjunction with the AT command to
schedule a shutdown at specific times. An example of this is:

AT 23:59 /every:M,T,W,Th,F shutdown /l /r /c /y

by kevin h.

If runt the at ? command from a prompt it will give you syntax for accessing a remote computer.

by lt1transamgt

I have the NT resource kit installed and I was just at the WinAt screen. I want to shut down a remote machine and it is asking me to add a command. How can I shut down a computer called Drivers1 using that program?

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