Shutting Down a Computer for a server

[Kathryn Thompson]

I have windows 2000 server with around 35+ XP machines,
my questions are,

How would i shutdown a computer on my LAN using the
server?

How would obtain a IP and MAC address of other machines
on my LAN without checking them manually, i want to be
able to do it at the server.

Cheers

Kathryn

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

1. You can remotely shut down an XP machine by using remote desktop.

2. You can obtain the IP and MAC address by using the Computer Management
console to connect to the remote machine and going to System
Information/Components/Network/Adapter. Also, if this Server is providing
DNS or DHCP, you can discover IP addresses in the respective server
consoles.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Steven L Umbach]

As long as you are an administrator on those computers you can use the shutdown
command to shutdown remote computers using the -m \\computername option. Shutdown /?
will give you the options for that command. Assuming your name resolution works on
the network you can ping a computer by name to find it's IP address and then use
arp -a shortly thereafter to see the IP to mac address mapping. -- Steve