I am working on a shut down bat that will shutdown a list of computers remotely. I am having issues getting it to work correctly. I have narrowed the issue down to the shut down command. Any IDEAS on what the cause of the issue might be? It will hit the shutdown command and then loop back to the :SHUT portion of the bat.

Code: [Select]@ECHO OFF
CLS

ECHO THIS WILL SHUTDOWN THE COMPUTERS.....
ECHO.
ECHO.


REM CHECKING TO SEE IF SHUTDOWN LIST EXISTS

IF EXIST "%TEMP%\SMOShutDown.TXT" DEL "%TEMP%\SMOShutDown.TXT"




REM THIS SECTION IS ALL OF THE SYSTEMS THAT WILL BE SCHEDULED TO BE SHUTDOWN

ECHO DOTVCOSMO3>"%TEMP%\SMOShutDown.TXT
ECHO DOTSCOSMO2>>"%TEMP%\SMOShutDown.TXT



REM USE SMOShutDown.TXT IN A FOR LOOP

FOR /f "delims==" %%A IN (C:\DOCUME~1\%USERNAME%\LOCALS~1\Temp\SMOShutDown.TXT) DO SET A=%%A& CALL :SHUT %%A


REM CLEANING UP FILES

IF EXIST "%TEMP%\SMOShutDown.TXT" DEL "%TEMP%\SMOShutDown.TXT"
GOTO EOL


:SHUT
:LOOPSH
SET errorlevel=
ECHO TESTING %A%

REM TEST TO SEE IF SYSTEM IS ACTIVE

ping -n 1 %A% > nul
ECHO %errorlevel%


REM PING ERRORLEVEL OF 0 MEANS SUCCESS
REM PING ERRORLEVEL OF 1 MEANS THE HOST IS NOT FOUND OR TURNED OFF

IF NOT %errorlevel%==0 GOTO OFF


REM PROCEEDING WITH SYSTEM SHUTDOWN
pause
SHUTDOWN -s -f -m \\%A% -t 05 -c "SMO SYSTEM SHUTDOWN DUE TO HEAT"

ping -n 1 -w 25000 1.1.1.1 > nul

GOTO LOOPSH




:OFF

ECHO SYSTEM %A% HAS BEEN SHUTDOWN.....
ping -n 1 -w 500 1.1.1.1 > nul

:EOL

thanks,
WayneThis behavior can occur if the Unlock Computer dialog box appears on the desktop, or if the computer is locked.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317371

Quote from: Salmon Trout on July 21, 2009, 01:46:40 PM

This behavior can occur if the Unlock Computer dialog box appears on the desktop, or if the computer is locked.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317371

Is the %A% variable being expanded correctly?

what happens if you put echo %errorlevel% straight after the shutdown line?