Network Startup and Shutdown

2Shae

Currently i run a Windows Home Server box in my spare room. I have a 2 shortcuts on my desktop to turn it on and off via the network. I have no problem turning it on. However i need to login on the network drive with my admin user / pass to get the shutdown command to work. any ideas? I was thinking of a batch script to login to the server with the user and pass and then shutdown.
Also when you write a batch script how do you do a delay like in linux scripting you can use sleep 5 for a 5 second delay before it does the next task

Jamie

DonkeyStyle \o/

2Shae wrote:

However i need to login on the network drive with my admin user / pass to get the shutdown command to work. any ideas?

I'd say have a look at your local security policy, might be something in there... allow shutdown without login or allow anon users, etc.

seamus

In order to remotely call a shutdown, the username and password on the client machine must match the username and password on the server.

When you log onto the network drive with your admin credentials, you have an open authenticated pipe, so the command works.

If you don't want to change the username and password on the server, you could add a NET USE command to the start of the batch script with your username and password.

So

NET USE Z: \\myServer\myShare myPassword /USER:Administrator /PERSISTENT:NO
SHUTDOWN -s -t 30 -f -m \\myServer