Remote Computer administration

[Bill]

I have a small network of 2 XP Pro computers, one connects on a wireless
connection through a wireless router and the other is wired through the
router. Occasionally I need to issue command line commands to the machine on
the wireless connection like shutdown etc. w/o using remote desktop. Can
someone help me with how to do this? I've tried the remote computer shutdown
command from the command line but it doesn't seem to work.

TIA

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have a small network of 2 XP Pro computers, one connects on a wireless
connection through a wireless router and the other is wired through the
router. Occasionally I need to issue command line commands to the machine on
the wireless connection like shutdown etc. w/o using remote desktop. Can
someone help me with how to do this? I've tried the remote computer shutdown
command from the command line but it doesn't seem to work.

TIA

Let's have a look at the remote shutdown command you used.
What error message (if any) do you get when you run it?

 

[Bill]

No error message, maybe the wrong syntax shutdown -m \\machine1 is the
command I used

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Looking at inbuilt shutdown help:

C:\>shutdown
Usage: shutdown [-i | -l | -s | -r | -a] [-f] [-m \\computername] [-t xx]
[-c "comment"] [-d up:xx:yy]

No args Display this message (same as -?)
-i Display GUI interface, must be the first
option
-l Log off (cannot be used with -m option)
-s Shutdown the computer
-r Shutdown and restart the computer
-a Abort a system shutdown
-m \\computername Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort
-t xx Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
-c "comment" Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
-f Forces running applications to close without
warning

Hence: shutdown -s -m \\machine1