remote shutdown, not logged in

From: Steve O'Brien (sobrien@sboe.org)
Date: 02/09/03 

From: "Steve O'Brien" <sobrien@sboe.org>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:40:02 -0800

Hi,

We're using a whole bunch of XP clients at our
organization (using SP1, all the critical updates
available as of right now). Instead of going around at
night, we'd like to shut them all down remotely.

I tried:

    shutdown -s -m \\pc19

This works when a user (guest, admin, etc) is logged in
at the console. When the login screen is up, this
command doesn't work. I'm logged on interactively at the
machine from which I'm running the remote shutdown
command, as a domain administrator. I'm not having an
access denied issue - the error returned is "the device
is not ready".

I've tried poking around the group policy editor, but
couldn't find anything that would help. Administrator is
already allowed to force remote shutdowns, but this
setting doesn't enable any sort of remote shutting down
while no one's logged in.

Is this a problem, or is it supposed to be this way? If
so, is there a setting by which I can disable this?

Thanks,
Steve

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