[Samba] Remote shutdown+poweroff of W2K server

Michael Burns mburns at clonetank.org
Mon Jul 25 16:41:12 GMT 2005


Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> Michael Burns wrote:
> 
> | I would like to know if and how it is possible to
> | get the Win2K server  to power off on shutdown with
> | the Samba client utlities.
> 
> It's probably just a flag we are missing in the
> 'net rpc shutdown'request.  Do you have a windows tool
> that will do the rmeote shutdown and power off correctly ?
> Could you send me an ethereal trace of that ?  Or tell
> me which tool to use in testing.

sysinternals.com has a tool, "psshutdown", that seems to work at least
locally.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsShutdown.html

In particular, the command-line option "psshutdown -k" shuts down and 
powers down the machine.

I can probably get you a trace if you need more info.

Thanks,

-- 
Michael


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