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When trying to shutdown other computers on my network using shutdown -s -m\\computername the reply reads..

The operation completed successfully.
A required privilege is not held by the client.

I would really like to be able to do this..any help greatly appreciated.

edit:Yes its at home and i have ADMINISTRATOR rights,running windows XP on both.Could it be that one of the windows versions arent genuine? By the way im a complete newb so i dont know how to change the command parameters and all that other stuff geek9 is talking about.
Which OS?
Is it your Network at home?
Which privilegs do you have? (On the CLIENTS)

uliThis GOT my curiosity. So I looked around on the Microsoft site. Here is my first impression.

This is a new command in Windows XP. The command is WORKING fine. It is not a 'backdoor' command where you can force another computer to do something that it should not do. It required the network administrator to set up some others things to allow proper and secure shutdown of each remote computer. The remote computer will shutdown only if the command parameters satisfy the rules on the remote computer. For more information on this you will have to really dig into the Microsoft WEB site. The trick is that the remote computer was already on a task schedule to shutdown anywayQuote

The trick is that the remote computer was already on a task schedule to shutdown anyway
This isn't needed, it works perfectly well without.

The shutdown command for remote shutdown (-m) works without the // of the computer name. I'm sure you know all the computer names, but if not, use:
Code: [Select]net view >C:\comps.txtThis gives you a list of computers that you can use the command on. All computers must be part of the workgroup, or they won't shut down. The (-m) command only supports shutdown (-s) and restart (-r), not logout (-l). An example of this command in action would be
Code: [Select]shutdown -m COMP1 -s -f -t "0" Hope this helps. Thanks Jarjee. I was dead wrong. I plead ignorance, but that is not excuse for not doing my homework!
I found an item on the MS site that helps with a problem I also have with the remote shutdown command. And I found that the command has been around for years.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/58ede3d5-c4cc-4532-bf75-997c165961ec1033.mspx



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