Shutdown Windows XP remotely

[Neworld]

Hi to everyone

I need to program in my office a shutdown of several windows machines.
Started trynig to shutdown onw of them with this command:

net rpc SHUTDOWN -C "Backup Ended" -f -I 192.168.0.12 -U Username%Password

The problem is that keeps giving me the error:

Shutdown of remote machine failed

result was: WERR_ACCESS_DENIED
debian:~#

Can someone help me?
Raffaele Colleo

[bigtomrodney]

Try omitting the space between the -U switch and the username. Alternatively you can check out this utility which is the Linux equivalent of psexec.

winexe homepage

[Neworld]

Still not working.
I wouldn't like to install stuff for the shutdown. I know that is possible to do it with the net command, but don't understand why is returning me the error

Raffaele Colleo

[caudatus]

Hi!

I'm sure Your problem is that Your XP host has "simple file sharing" option ON, but You need to turn it OFF.
Simple file sharing cause to force guest while NT authorization process.

If simple file sharing is ON (which is default in XP pro), Your command cannot define the priv account while running net rpc shutdown -I <IPaddressOfXPhost> -U administrator%<pass>, because the xp host doesn't want to receive this information. It set the running account to unpriv account GUEST.

Solution:
Set Simple File Sharing option to OFF on XP pro host.
On XP home this option is set to ON by default and cannot be changed.