restarting windows 2000 pro from cmd line

Spacedog

how would you restart a win2k pro machine using a shortcut, from the command line or by remote? without installing RK (just the basic install of 2k).

Ginger

Not too sure if this works on 2K as i really dont want to restart my machine

C:\WINNT\rundll.exe user.exe,exitWindows

Should do it as a shortcut

Ginger

This might also work

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\TSSHUTDN.EXE 0 /DELAY:0 /POWERDOWN

Bizarre

You can also use shutdown with the switches bdlow:

shutdown.exe /L /R /Y /C /T:05

Or try shutdown /? to try your own.

oneweb

Originally posted by Ginger
This might also work

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\TSSHUTDN.EXE 0 /DELAY:0 /POWERDOWN

That file doesn't exist on Win2kPro, nor does

Originally posted by Bizarre
shutdown.exe

Ginger's first suggestion is the MS documented way, there are some variants such as logoff, force logoff, powerdown etc. <edit, doesn't work on w2k :dunno: >

shutdown utility

ColmOT [MSFT]

Ginger's way is for Windows 9x.

rundll32 user32.dll,ExitWindowsEx

should work on W2K.

I've no W2K machine to try it on though...anyone wanna verify if it works?

Colm.

Spacedog

nope none of the above work, the shutdown.exe is part of the resource kit and isn't available in vanilla flavour Win2k anyone know anything about specialised scripting, say perl or someink that could apply?

Bizarre

Can you not donwload the resource kit?

fatherdougalmag

Keep in mind that you'll probably need admin privileges to do this sort of thing.

Spacedog

suppose I could dl it, but I'd have to roll it out and what-not. I just assumed microsoft would have the good sense to allow users to... nevermind.

Ginger

If fancy a bit of C++ coding its fairly easy

ExitWindowsEx from Windows.h i think ..

Or else you could do it in VB and import one of the dlls .. It should be possible to do it

Such as this

Thank you MSDN :P

Also with a slight be of modification this can be done in VBA and possibly but unsure VBS

HTH



Create a new standard EXE in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.

View the code for Form1. In the Declarations section, add the following code:


Private Type LUID
UsedPart As Long
IgnoredForNowHigh32BitPart As Long
End Type

Private Type TOKEN_PRIVILEGES
PrivilegeCount As Long
TheLuid As LUID
Attributes As Long
End Type

Private Const EWX_SHUTDOWN As Long = 1
Private Const EWX_FORCE As Long = 4
Private Const EWX_REBOOT = 2

Private Declare Function ExitWindowsEx Lib "user32" (ByVal _
dwOptions As Long, ByVal dwReserved As Long) As Long

Private Declare Function GetCurrentProcess Lib "kernel32" () As Long
Private Declare Function OpenProcessToken Lib "advapi32" (ByVal _
ProcessHandle As Long, _
ByVal DesiredAccess As Long, TokenHandle As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function LookupPrivilegeValue Lib "advapi32" _
Alias "LookupPrivilegeValueA" _
(ByVal lpSystemName As String, ByVal lpName As String, lpLuid _
As LUID) As Long
Private Declare Function AdjustTokenPrivileges Lib "advapi32" _
(ByVal TokenHandle As Long, _
ByVal DisableAllPrivileges As Long, NewState As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES _
, ByVal BufferLength As Long, _
PreviousState As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES, ReturnLength As Long) As Long

Add a procedure called AdjustToken with the following code:


Private Sub AdjustToken()
Const TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES = &H20
Const TOKEN_QUERY = &H8
Const SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED = &H2
Dim hdlProcessHandle As Long
Dim hdlTokenHandle As Long
Dim tmpLuid As LUID
Dim tkp As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES
Dim tkpNewButIgnored As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES
Dim lBufferNeeded As Long

hdlProcessHandle = GetCurrentProcess()
OpenProcessToken hdlProcessHandle, (TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES Or _
TOKEN_QUERY), hdlTokenHandle

' Get the LUID for shutdown privilege.
LookupPrivilegeValue "", "SeShutdownPrivilege", tmpLuid

tkp.PrivilegeCount = 1 ' One privilege to set
tkp.TheLuid = tmpLuid
tkp.Attributes = SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED

' Enable the shutdown privilege in the access token of this process.
AdjustTokenPrivileges hdlTokenHandle, False, _
tkp, Len(tkpNewButIgnored), tkpNewButIgnored, lBufferNeeded

End Sub

Add a CommandButton to the form. In the Click event, add the following code:


Private Sub Command1_Click()
AdjustToken
ExitWindowsEx (EWX_SHUTDOWN Or EWX_FORCE Or EWX_REBOOT), &HFFFF
End Sub

Save the project and build an executable. When you run the executable and click the CommandButton the computer will reboot as expected.

Ginger

Just a thought ...

You say that the problem is roll out .. how were you going to roll out the shortcut?

Spacedog

I wasn't going to rollout the shortcut, I wanted to be able to telnet into users pcs and reboot them remotley. linux example

ssh 192.168.0.x
user
pass
shutdown -r now


I didn't think it'd be an episode of Eastenders doing this in Windows 2k.

Ginger

Ahh this makes it easier

You can in Computer Management remotely shut down a machine

So here is a walkthru

On your machine open up Computer Management

Right Click on Computer Management (Local)

Connect to Another Computer

Type in the name of the machine/IP

Right Click on Computer Management (Comp_Name)

Cick Properties -> Advanced -> Startup & Recovery ...

Nice shut down button for you to reboot the machine

That any better ...

Capt'n Midnight

have a look at PSTOOLS too on systeminternals too
or you could VNC in and manually reboot.

Spacedog

Ah, lovely stuff Ginger, yer a star! thanks capn' too, good ideas lads! muchos grasci!

Ginger

De nadda .. handy trick really but i think you may need to be an admin on the machine