shutdown.exe

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Howard

I placed shutdown.exe on my server but cannot shut down
computers on the newtork from either a batch file or
command line. Does shutdown.exe need to be on the remote
pc's? I presently have shutdown.exe and the batch file in
the root directory of my server. I am running 2000
advanced server and Win2k on the desktops
 
Nothing needs to be installed on the remote machines. What does "cannot"
mean? Do you get an error?

Ray at work
 
Yes. The error is "shutdown is not recognized as an
internal or external command". What I mean by cannot is
that the remote machines do not shut down.
 
You have to either execute C:\full\path\to\shutdown.exe or put shutdown.exe
in any of the paths in your %PATH% environment variable, i.e. C:\Winnt,
C:\winnt\system32, etc.

Ray at work
 
Thanks. I'll make the changes..
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You have to either execute C:\full\path\to\shutdown.exe or put shutdown.exe
in any of the paths in your %PATH% environment variable, i.e. C:\Winnt,
C:\winnt\system32, etc.

Ray at work




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