Scheduled tasks problems

[Cristian Meggiorin]

Hallo,
I've a customer that have a W2k Professional as server where he do his
backup with an old version of tapeware. The problem is that he would power
off the server after the backup, so I make a cheduled task to shutdown the
PC: a night he done and a night he didn't. The user name of the scheduled
task is Administrator with its correct password. What can I do???
I try with AT command, too, but the risult was the same.

OS: W2k pro sp3

Thanks in advance

Cristian Meggiorin

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hallo,
I've a customer that have a W2k Professional as server where he do his
backup with an old version of tapeware. The problem is that he would power
off the server after the backup, so I make a cheduled task to shutdown the
PC: a night he done and a night he didn't. The user name of the scheduled
task is Administrator with its correct password. What can I do???
I try with AT command, too, but the risult was the same.

OS: W2k pro sp3

Thanks in advance

Cristian Meggiorin

Your post is a little unclear but I assume that your client is trying
to shut down his machine with a scheduled task and that it did
not work. What was the exact command he used to shut down
the machine?

 

[Cristian Meggiorin]

He try to use PSSHUTDOWN (from the package of PSTOOLS) and SHUTDOWN (from
the W2k TOOLKIT) The problem is the same.
Thankyou

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Fine. Now what was the exact command and what did he
see on the screen? He can make the screen output visible
like so:
shutdown /.. /.. /.. 1>c:\shutdown.txt 2>&1

Post the contents of c:\shutdown.txt

 

[Cristian Meggiorin]

ok, thankyou, I'll call the customer in this afternoon and I'll ask him to
mail me that log. Where can I find it???

 

[Cristian Meggiorin]

I think I solve the problem, now I've installed a free tools that i found in
WinPenPack that seem to work fine.
I'll test it for some days, thanks.