Hello again,
I have spent the last 3 hour trying to force a pc on my network to shutdown remotly.
I have tryed the cmd command shutdown -s -f -m\\aopen-comp2
the command shutdown -s -f works it forces the computer that it is excuted on to shutdown.
But the remote shutdown command wont work !!!
I have downloaded 8 different programs that are suposted to shutdown a selected computer on a LAN running win xp but none of them work the computer I want to shutdown shows up when I hit browse inside the programs but when I hit shutdown nothing happens.
I have disabled my software firewall norton antivirus and personal firewall on both computers on my LAN
I have also tryed using compmgmt.msc -> connecting to the remote pc on my network (aopen-comp2) -> then selecting propertys ->advance and i get an error saying WMI :axcess denied
And now I turn to u !
Could my Broadband Router being stopping the command ???
Any ideas why I cannot remotly shutdown a computer on my LAN.
Tnx Nova
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hello, my name is jonny.
I discovered that you could also do this:
1)open a new command prompt
2)type in "shutdown -i" [without speach marks]
3)press ENTER
-A window should appear after a few seconds.
From there you can browse for a computer connected to the same network you are...
...But...
I've tried it and a popup came up and said "The current directory service is unavailable."
So I'm stuck on what to do.
Can anybody help...