hello there, i have this room with 37 computers in my school, that i need to be able to shutdown just by pressing something on my so-called-server computer :). all the computers are running WinXP. ALL of them have sequent IP addresses and names, and ABSOLUTELY THE SAME administrator account.
username: admin01
pass: pass01
all firewalls have been disabled on all the computers. if i execute the shutdown command with the -m option it will work for all computers except 4 of them – these 4 give me the “Access Denied” message on shutdown.exe execution. These 4 are the newest computers on the classroom, but still, there is nothing different or special about them… at least none that i know of… they’ve got the same admin account, no firewall, same OS… Everything is accessible on them just as any other computer, file sharing, Remote Desktop, etc. I don’t know why it WON’T let me shutdown them remotely, drives me crazy! I searched the internet, and it seems, there are other people experiencing the same thing, but yet, i coudn’t identify a solution…
second thing, as i said i need to make the shutdown process for all the computers as short as possible, that’s why i went for a batch file. The shutdown command executed by the batch file will discard additional option like -r (restart), -f (force quit), the only option will not discard is the -m option. So if my first line in the .bat file is:
shutdown -m \\computer01 -r -f
it will only shutdown computer01, no restart and no force quiting of applications
pls help, if you know how 🙂 thanks thanks thanks