Re: Shutdown Utilities Do Not Work

From: Eric Perlin [MS] (ericperl@microsoft.com)
Date: 10/16/02 

From: "Eric Perlin [MS]" <ericperl@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:52:16 -0700

Are you authenticated as an admin on the machine you want to shutdown?
Prior to: shutdown -s -t 0 -m \\MachineA
Try: net use \\MachineA /u:MachineA\administrator <MachineA admin's password
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Eric Perlin [MS]
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"Bill Burns" <laburns@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:332b01c27496$8f952d70$36ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa12...
> The shutdown.exe utility works on the computer it is
> initiated on (XP=shutdown -l or W2K=shutdown /L), but try
> a cross platform shut down from Windows 2000 to XP
> Professional (shutdown \\xxxxx /S) or XP Professional to
> XP Professional (shutdown -m \\yyyyy -s).  Cross platform
> shut downs work correctly from XP Professional to Windows
> 2000 Advanced Server and from W2K to W2K.
>
> Using two XP Professional machines I get "Access Denied".
> Only administrator accounts are logged on the XP
> Professional computers running in a workgroup.  The Local
> Security Policy for Local Users is set exactly the same on
> both XP Professional machines.  Local User Rights
> polices "Shut down the system" and "Force shutdown from a
> remote system" are set to Administrator.  The Local User
> Right "Deny access to this computer from the Network" is
> set to "SUPPORT_388945a0".
>
> Has anyone succeeded in what is described above, and if so,
> what are the Security Policy settings.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Bill Burns wrote:
> >>
> >> The utilities shutdown.exe and nltest.exe do not work
> >> correctly across or within XP and Windows 2000
> >> environments.
> >>
> >> It seems starnge, but the version of shutdown.exe for
> >> Windows 2000 displays an error message box that relates
> >> one of the problems being that the target computer may
> not
> >> be an NT machine.
> >>
> >> What a mess Microsoft has created.  I'll look for a
> third
> >> party utility or write my own code.  Microsoft really
> >> knows how to waste our valuable time.
> >
> >Sorry, but it may be your system, as I'm not having
> >any problems with shutdown.exe (XP Professional).
> >
> >Larry
> >.
> >

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