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Shutdown a Windows machine from Linux

Terminal - Shutdown a Windows machine from Linux
net rpc shutdown -I ipAddressOfWindowsPC -U username%password
2009-05-31 07:18:01
User: LrdShaper
Functions: shutdown
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Shutdown a Windows machine from Linux

This will issue a shutdown command to the Windows machine. username must be an administrator on the Windows machine. Requires samba-common package installed. Other relevant commands are:

net rpc shutdown -r : reboot the Windows machine

net rpc abortshutdown : abort shutdown of the Windows machine

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Would be good, but does not work for me (remote machine is Windows XP Pro):

Shutdown of remote machine failed

result was: DOS code 0x00000015

Comment by ok 40 weeks and 2 days ago

works great

Comment by linuxrawkstar 36 weeks and 1 day ago

How can I do the same thing using a Mac to Shutdown XP Pro Machine. I have a MacBook Please, Please any help would help

Comment by netguykb 23 weeks and 4 days ago

Ok I tried this

net rpc shutdown -I 192.168.0.6 -U mycomputer%mypassword

mypassword has admin rights

but got this: Could not connect to server 192.168.0.6

Connection failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Could not connect to server 192.168.0.6

Connection failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Comment by netguykb 23 weeks and 4 days ago

Ok I tried this

net rpc shutdown -I 192.168.0.6 -U mycomputer%mypassword

mypassword has admin rights

but got this: Could not connect to server 192.168.0.6

Connection failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Could not connect to server 192.168.0.6

Connection failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Comment by netguykb 23 weeks and 4 days ago

Ok I tried this

net rpc shutdown -I 192.168.0.6 -U mycomputer%mypassword

mypassword has admin rights

but got this: Could not connect to server 192.168.0.6

Connection failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Could not connect to server 192.168.0.6

Connection failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Comment by netguykb 23 weeks and 4 days ago

File/folder sharing needs to be enabled on the XP Machine

Comment by LrdShaper 23 weeks and 4 days ago

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