XP shutdown commandline

[Guest]

Greetings all, I have a home network with several computers, I am trying to
use the shutdown command on xp.
I have used it before, but it has been awhile, and now it doesn't seemed to
work.
I am able to shutdown the system locally in the commandline, but can't do it
to a networked (remote) system.
What is happening is that when I run the command it says
"The network path was not found. Failed: 'computername' ", Even though I can
see the list of computers on my network.
What I also did was turn off my firewall on each system, but still the same.
I always had my systems bind filesharing
and client over ipx, but I rebinded back to tcp/ip, but it had no effect. I
also did a 'Repair this Connection', still no results. All the pcs on my
network are setup to be static so no dhcp on any of them. Is there a service
I need to start,
or port I need to open? Is there a reason(s) that this command does not seem
to work? I do have the
"File and Printer Sharing" firewall settings set for those ports to open.
Even when using the gui interface of shutdown -i
it still wouldn't work.

 

[Guest]

I think that approach will only work in a domain. (it would not be sensible
if any networked computer could shutdown any other without authorisation)

http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/applications.html

might be a suitable alternative.

 

[Guest]

Well, my systems are all under the same workgroup. I am only using xp home
w/sp2. I didn't mean remotely as in over the wan, just inside the lan. I
had used this command before, but now its lucked out.