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Ok here's an interesting problem I've run into. I'm attempting to reboot some computers remotely using psshutdown and getting access denied errors unless I run the cmd from a cmd prompt that was run as admin. I myself am an admin on my machine as well as on the remote computer so my credentials should work just fine.

Example code:

psshutdown /accepteula \\COMPUTER.DOMAIN.COM -u DOMAIN\USER -p Password -r -t 0

Example output:

Could not start PsShutdown service on COMPUTER.DOMAIN.COM:
Access is denied.

However when run from admin cmd window:

COMPUTER.DOMAIN.COM is scheduled to reboot in 00:00:00.

As kludge-y as it seems, is it possible to use psexec to run psshutdown as an elevated user?

Gergo Erdosi
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After running around in circles with this I ended up using:

runas /netonly /user:DOMAIN\USERNAME "shutdown -m \\XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -r -f -t 0"

Which isn't ideal but got the job done.

pmcfarland
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Ok, try this. It will open an external window where you can remotely shutdown computers on your network:

    shutdown -i

You can type this straight into the CMD window without needing to create a .bat file. Hope this helps!

Tom Anderson
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