XP Shutdown.exe doesn't shutdown NT

[Rob Hulsebos]

Hi,

I am using XP with an application that must
reboot an NT machine elsewhere on the network.
For this, I'd like to use the standard
available XP "shutdown.exe" utility. But then run, it
returns the error "procedure number out of range".
Is this a security issue, or is there a remote API
change incompabitlity?

When I run NT's shutdown.exe (from the Resouce Kit)
on the XP box to reboot the NT machine, it works fine.
But I'd rather use the native XP tool for it, having
no guarantee that NT Resource Kit stuff 5 years old
already will keep running on (future) XP versions..

Rob Hulsebos

 

[Alex Nichol]

I am using XP with an application that must
reboot an NT machine elsewhere on the network.
For this, I'd like to use the standard
available XP "shutdown.exe" utility. But then run, it
returns the error "procedure number out of range".
Is this a security issue, or is there a remote API
change incompabitlity?

When I run NT's shutdown.exe (from the Resouce Kit)
on the XP box to reboot the NT machine, it works fine.
But I'd rather use the native XP tool for it, having
no guarantee that NT Resource Kit stuff 5 years old
already will keep running on (future) XP versions..

You should not assume that things written for the system interfaces of
the later XP version of the kernel will run on an NT4 kernel.