Windows XP has a remote shutdown gadget shutdown.exe, this tool can be used under Windows 2000 and XP, and both 2000 and XP can be closed. The use of this tool has been introduced in various media, and will not be repeated here. To successfully use shutdown.exe for remote shutdown, you must modify the remote system accordingly. Various articles are introduced to modify the local security policy, so that Guest users are also related to the permissions of the machine. There is a hidden danger here: anyone can turn off this computer on a LAN using Windows NT/2000/XP. Imagine if the computer is doing some very important work, but suddenly someone maliciously or unintentionally uses a remote shutdown to shut down your computer, then you have to faint. Another disadvantage of using shutdown.exe is that although he does a good job of shutting down a Windows XP computer, it does not automatically power down the Windows 2000 computer when it is turned off.
author of this excellent domestic recommend a local area network tools, his name is LanHelper, also known as local area network assistant, the latest version v1.1. LanHelper has a much more powerful remote shutdown capability than shutdown.exe, which can completely replace shutdown.exe as an indispensable tool for our remote shutdown.
After downloading and installing, use LanHelper to scan the network. LanHelper provides several scanning methods, because the remote shutdown can only be valid in the LAN. In this case, select “Scan LAN” to scan. After scanning, you can see the computer name and operating system of all online computers in the LAN. lots of beliefs. Then select one of the operating systems for the Win2000 computer SJSERVER, click on the menu "Tools /Remote Shutdown", the "Remote Shutdown" dialog box appears. In the dialog box, open the option "Log in to the remote machine" and then enter the account used to shut down in the "User Name" and "Password" boxes. Generally, only the account with the system administrator authority can perform the remote shutdown operation, so you need to enter the user name Administrator and the corresponding password of the system administrator account on the computer SJSERVER, and then set the shutdown in the option box "Close after this". The time is 60 seconds and finally the OK button is clicked. Then a dialog box will pop up, click OK to open the record file of the operation. The first line is "2003-10-23 22:18:22 Remote shutdown sjserver, succeed", meaning it has been fixed. Oh, this means that now we can eliminate the hidden danger of using shutdown.exe shutdown, only the system administrator can successfully perform the remote shutdown operation. This also eliminates the need to modify the local security policy for each computer in order to remotely shut down. Of course, this is not really to shut down this computer. At this time, just click the menu "Tools\\Cancel Remote Shutdown" to cancel the shutdown operation on the computer SJSERVER waiting to be executed.
(Picture 1 Remote Shutdown.bmp)