remote shutdown

[Guest]

Please help on remote shutdown problem

I was trying to follow the instruction from this microsoft kb article
"http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...prop_to_perform_a_remote_reboot.mspx?mfr=true"
Here is the step by step instruction

1.Open Computer Management (Local)

2.In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Local), and then
click Connect to another computer.

3.In the Select Computer dialog box, click Another computer, type the name
of the computer that you want to restart or shut down, and then click OK. You
can also click Browse to search for the name of the computer.

4.In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Remote computer
name), and then click Properties.

5.On the Advanced tab, click Startup and Recovery.

6.Click Shut Down to open the Shut Down dialog box.

7.Under Action, select the actions you want to perform on the computer to
which you are connected.

8.Under Force Apps Closed, select the circumstances under which you want to
force applications to close when you shut down or restart the computer, and
then click OK.

However, when I got to step 4 and try to open properties, I got "Win32:
access is denied" error and blank computer management window.
Can anyone tell me what do I need to do?
Remote computer is on peer network, and I can ping the remote computer.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Please help on remote shutdown problem

I was trying to follow the instruction from this microsoft kb
article
"http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...prop_to_perform_a_remote_reboot.mspx?mfr=true"
Here is the step by step instruction

1.Open Computer Management (Local)

2.In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Local), and
then click Connect to another computer.

3.In the Select Computer dialog box, click Another computer, type
the name of the computer that you want to restart or shut down, and
then click OK. You can also click Browse to search for the name of
the computer.

4.In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Remote
computer name), and then click Properties.

5.On the Advanced tab, click Startup and Recovery.

6.Click Shut Down to open the Shut Down dialog box.

7.Under Action, select the actions you want to perform on the
computer to which you are connected.

8.Under Force Apps Closed, select the circumstances under which you
want to force applications to close when you shut down or restart
the computer, and then click OK.

However, when I got to step 4 and try to open properties, I got
"Win32: access is denied" error and blank computer management
window.
Can anyone tell me what do I need to do?
Remote computer is on peer network, and I can ping the remote
computer.

Does the account you are utilizing to do this have administrative rights on
the remote computer?
Remember - never just follow the steps of a solution and expect them to
work - there are usually pre-requisites or notes that tell you what things
*must* be true in order for the steps to work... In this case:

Note
. To open Computer Management, click Start, and then click Control
Panel. Click Performance and Maintenance, click Administrative Tools, and
then double-click Computer Management.

. You must be recognized as an administrator or a member of the
Administrators group on your computer and on the computer you are managing
to perform this task.




Can you not just use the command line tool:

shutdown

or the third party tool:

psshutdown

to remotely reboot/shutdown the system in question?

Those should work great - if you are a system administrator of the remote
system. Also, if you want - you could use a tool like PSEXEC and specify
the remote credentials to run shutdown.exe 'locally' on the machine and shut
it down.

 

[Guest]

Does the account you are utilizing to do this have administrative rights on
the remote computer?
Remember - never just follow the steps of a solution and expect them to
work - there are usually pre-requisites or notes that tell you what things
*must* be true in order for the steps to work... In this case:

Note
. To open Computer Management, click Start, and then click Control
Panel. Click Performance and Maintenance, click Administrative Tools, and
then double-click Computer Management.

. You must be recognized as an administrator or a member of the
Administrators group on your computer and on the computer you are managing
to perform this task.




Can you not just use the command line tool:

shutdown

or the third party tool:

psshutdown

to remotely reboot/shutdown the system in question?

Those should work great - if you are a system administrator of the remote
system. Also, if you want - you could use a tool like PSEXEC and specify
the remote credentials to run shutdown.exe 'locally' on the machine and shut
it down.

Thanks Stanley, for reply
Yes, my account has administrator right, and the same result with using
shutdown tool from command prompt. I haven't tried any third party tool.
By the way, I was able to do this before. So I don't know if anything got
corrupted or what. I'm pretty sure I don't have any virus.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Please help on remote shutdown problem

I was trying to follow the instruction from this microsoft kb
article
"http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...prop_to_perform_a_remote_reboot.mspx?mfr=true"
Here is the step by step instruction

However, when I got to step 4 and try to open properties, I got
"Win32: access is denied" error and blank computer management
window.
Can anyone tell me what do I need to do?
Remote computer is on peer network, and I can ping the remote
computer.

Does the account you are utilizing to do this have administrative
rights on the remote computer?
Remember - never just follow the steps of a solution and expect
them to work - there are usually pre-requisites or notes that tell
you what things *must* be true in order for the steps to work...
In this case:

Note
. To open Computer Management, click Start, and then click
Control Panel. Click Performance and Maintenance, click
Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.

. You must be recognized as an administrator or a member of
the Administrators group on your computer and on the computer you
are managing to perform this task.




Can you not just use the command line tool:

shutdown

or the third party tool:

psshutdown

to remotely reboot/shutdown the system in question?

Those should work great - if you are a system administrator of the
remote system. Also, if you want - you could use a tool like
PSEXEC and specify the remote credentials to run shutdown.exe
'locally' on the machine and shut it down.

Thanks Stanley, for reply
Yes, my account has administrator right, and the same result with
using shutdown tool from command prompt. I haven't tried any third
party tool. By the way, I was able to do this before. So I don't
know if anything got corrupted or what. I'm pretty sure I don't
have any virus.

Are you in a domain?
Is the user you are logged in as a domain user that is in the local
administrators group of both machines?
Can you map drives?
Is the firewall properly configured to allow the type of connection you are
attempting to do?

Unless you are in a domain with the other computer (not a workgroup) then
the username/password it may be passing to the other machine is probably not
an administrator on it. Example:

Two machines in a workgroup. MachineA and MachineB. The workgroup is
called WORKGROUP. They are both members of WORKGROUP. Both have users
named "AdminUser". The passwords for "AdminUser" are the same on both
machines. However - when you try to map a drive (with simple file sharing
turned off) off MachineB from MachineA as AdminUser - it is likely to fail.
It is trying to use the username "MachineA\AdminUser" and not just
"AdminUser". You need it to use "MachineB\AdminUser"...

 

[Guest]

Are you in a domain?
Is the user you are logged in as a domain user that is in the local
administrators group of both machines?
Can you map drives?
Is the firewall properly configured to allow the type of connection you are
attempting to do?

Unless you are in a domain with the other computer (not a workgroup) then
the username/password it may be passing to the other machine is probably not
an administrator on it. Example:

Two machines in a workgroup. MachineA and MachineB. The workgroup is
called WORKGROUP. They are both members of WORKGROUP. Both have users
named "AdminUser". The passwords for "AdminUser" are the same on both
machines. However - when you try to map a drive (with simple file sharing
turned off) off MachineB from MachineA as AdminUser - it is likely to fail.
It is trying to use the username "MachineA\AdminUser" and not just
"AdminUser". You need it to use "MachineB\AdminUser"...

I fixed it, thanks for helping me.
I set "remote_computer\user" account password not to be saved in local
computer, once I set local computer to remember password of remote computer's
user account it works again.
Is there anyway to set up remote computer so that it will prompt for
password (or user name and password) whenever I attempt to connect via
computer management tool (or issue shutdown command).
I don't want to save password of a remote computer's account that has an
administrative rights.