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Restart network pc's with psshutdown or psexec

Experts! I have a Windows XP/2003 AD network with 200+ pc's. I would like to restart them with a script. I used net view to dump the computers to a text file and tried psshutdown. If I do the pc's one at a time, it works. If I try the script, it gives me an error about not being able to access the pc and to make sure the admin share is available.

I would just like to restart the computers in the pc.txt file. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you!

avilov

I am not familiar with pcshutdown but you should be able to use that with minimal change

FOR /F %i in (pc.txt) do shutdown -r -f -m \\%i

samiam41

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Thanks for the post. It just runs shutdown /r /f over and over and over.....

What did I enter wrong?

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samiam41

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it echo'd them all out. everything looked right.

avilov

so if you run the first one it will run shutdown command for all of your servers

samiam41

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avilov..... I am an idiot. I named a batch file named shutdown and saved it in the same directory as I was running the shutdown command from. The result, the "for" command ran my POS batch file and nothing happened. You did great! Thanks for the help. Your command works. Can I echo the results to a text file?

avilov

sure, just use >> result.txt at end of the command, like that

FOR /F %i in (pc.txt) do shutdown -r -f -m \\%i >> result.txt

samiam41

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Awesome!!! Thanks for the help. See if you can work you magic on this one. : )

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