Having an ability to shutdown computers remotely is helpful
not only for network administrators who need to turn off workstations at night
to save electric power, for example, but also for home users who have more than
one PC in the network and like to manage them remotely. There are a number of
ways how you can execute network shutdown command, but all of them have some
preconditions.
It's important to remember that you can initiate remote
shutdown operation, described in this article, only for Windows PCs available
in the local network. To check a list of PCs available in the local network you
can open Network (or Network Neighborhood is early Windows) in the Windows
Explorer. Also to execute network remote shutdown you should have an
administrative access to remote PC. This security limitation prevents
unauthorized shutdown of remote computers.
Using Standard Windows
Shutdown Command
Starting from Windows Server 2003 (for server
platforms) and Windows XP (for desktop platforms) Windows includes shutdown.exe utility
in the standard distribution. This utility can be used to shutdown a local or
network PCs. You can use it in a command-line mode by typing shutdown.exe in
the Windows command prompt (known as CMD). A set of command-line parameters for
shutdown command is described in MSDN article, but at a time of writing this article doesn't
describe all parameters available for shutdown.exe that comes with Windows 7.
So it makes sense to get a list of command-line parameters for your system by
running a following command:
shutdown -?
In order to shutdown a remote PC you can run
such command:
Lets break it down:
·
/s - instructs to make a
shutdown
·
/m \\ComputerName - specifies the name of remote PC to shutdown it remotely
Important: As it was mentioned above, shutdown.exe can have different parameters on different Windows versions. But parameters syntax also can be different. For example on XP you have to use '-s' instead of '/s'. Shutdown command has additional parameters that help to control behavior of shutdown operation. For example, a command below makes remote shutdown of specified PC with 60 seconds timeout during which a message will be displayed on remote PC and then all running applications are forced to close:
shutdown /s /f /m \\ComputerName /t 60 /c “PC will be tuned off in 60 second”
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