Remote shutdown

[Kained]

I help run a small network which has 27 computers on the domain and one 2k3 server

now i can remotely access all computers and shut them down apart from 2 now they all have the domain admins group added to the local admin account and all pull through the group policys any ideas on why these two wont ?

Thanks in advance

[Nij.UK]

might be bit of a long shot, but if they are SP2 have you got the firewall turned off on the machines. That might be stopping it

[StewartKnight]

I use a simple vb script to shutdown my network, and I've not had a problem.

How are you doing it?

[FN-GM]

use this product http://italc.sourceforge.net/ i think it lets you do what you want, plus its free!

[Kained]

simple batch file the firewall is off :S

[Kained]

Anyone got any ideas why the rest work and 2 give a access denied?, i know people say permissions but they should all be the same as the all have the same group policy.

[istanlfc]

try a shutdown command in command prompt, shutdown -s "Computer IP"

[istanlfc]

Heard of telnet? i have seen it in action as the techy in our school shutdown every computer in school (over 200) due to a scheldued power cut. Google it. He used the telnet command and shutdown to every computer IP in a notepad file and ran it as a batch file.

[webman]

Telnet is a protocol; not a program. It alone cannot shutdown a batch of computers.

[istanlfc]

So sorry i said that wrong, he shutdown one computer to show how it works and later that day he used shutdown command for every comp, got confused sorry.