I have just started learning about DOS, and I read about the 'shutdown' command. Let's just say that I wanted to "prank" my brother by remotely shutting down the 2nd computer in my house while he's on it. I know how to do everything except find out the 'computer name' argument. Could someone please tell me how to out the name of a computer?on your own computer, TYPE hostname on the command prompt.In the prompt you would Type Shutdown -s -m\\(your brothers computer name) then you can even *censored* a message with -c "then your coment in here"

it works, ive tryed it at my school, I just cant do it because my acount doesnt allow it

Have fun I can't GET the command to work that twiggs said, any help twiggs?It should look something like this

Shutdown -s -m \\Computername -c "coment"

Not sure if the coment will work. But im almost certain that the rest of the command will work if your trying to shut down a computer on the same network. :-/

Maybe you can't, THATS just what I know from reading about the shutdown command. But if you can then I GUESS I got lucky, and if not sorry for the COMPLETE waste of time :-/Well, the code works but im getting an Access Denied so it doesnt turn off. Eventually I shall get this to work Haha, Nice, not bad for a newbie you sould try to create the same session and password on your computer's brother and try again to prank him, it may work if my memory is good...