Shutdown a PC on LAN from another PC using a batch file in Windows 7

Question

I'm just interested in knowing: can we shutdown a PC from another PC using a batch file if both are on the same LAN?

Solution 1

Yes, you can use the /m switch for shutdown like this

shutdown /s /m \\computer1 /t 0

Solution 2

Call the shutdown command from a batch running as a user with the correct permissions or use psshutdown.

Solution 3

Easiest way:

set computertoshutdown=COMPUTERNAME
set timetoshutdown =TIMEtoSHUTDOWN
set message=MESSAGE

shutdown -s -m \\%computertoshutdown% -t %timetoshutdown% -c "%message%"

Comments

[Amith]

shutdown -s -t 2 is the code that shut down my pc. i want to shutdown another pc from my PC.

[Alex K.]

/m \\<ComputerName> : Specifies the target computer

[Amith]

shutdown -s /m \\ amith-016 -t 2 i use this code but it is not working

[Alex K.]

Well you cant just randomly shut down a computer on the network.. that would cause problems. You need to run the command under a user with the correct permissions - e.g. an admin on the target pc or pass the credentials to psshutdown