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Remote shutdown for Win9x

Hi Friends,

Is there any way to shutdown/reboot the remote computer(windows 95/98), without any client running on that machine(we don't have anybody running over the client machine).
I want to shutdown the machine from local network, with the help of administrator privileges (so there is nothing to worry abt the rights/access to that machine).

thanks in advance,

rgds,
himmya.

fl0yd

You will have to use the win32 function InitiateSystemShutdown[Ex]. It can be used to shut down a machine in a network, if you have the machine's name and the privileges on that machine to perform this system call. Documentation can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/sysinfo/shutdown_04ry.asp

An overview over shutting down a system can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/sysinfo/shutdown_29wu.asp

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himmya

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Hi fl0yd,

that's true, but we can use that API's only for WinNT/2K and XP not for Win9X. And as i already told in my question that i want Win 95/95 machine shutdown from remote location (remote means from local network itse'f not from internet)

anyway thanks for giving me reply,

rgds,
himmya.

fl0yd

Argh, should have paid more attention to your question. Sorry, yes, this functionality is only supported in win nt 3.1 and up.

Since Win9x doesn't support this, chances are slim that it is possible without having a client on that specific machine that you can talk to. But I don't know for sure, so maybe someone else who does will respond.

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