Remote Shutdown

[El93]

My housemate is constantly streaming music and slowing down the connection for the rest of us even when she is out of the house. I have been recommended to try remotely shutting her laptop down when she isn't in the house using the "shutdown" command via command prompt but I always get the same "Access is denied. (5)" response.

Is there some way of overcoming this? Or a better way of remotely shutting it down?

Apologies if I've posted this in the wrong place.

 

[voyagerfan99]

If you have a router that has bandwidth allocation settings you can change the amount of bandwidth a specific type of media (AKA: Streaming) can take up.

 

[AntimatterAsh]

I am not entirely sure, but using

shutdown -s -f -m \\[I]pc name[/I] -t 010 -c "Remote Shutdown"

...may only work on Windows Professional and/or servers.

It may work if you use something like

shutdown -i

and use the dialog box to shutdown. You have to make sure that you have permission to do it though, and I do not know how to do that. The only other sort of option is something like TeamViewer or LogMeIn.com which allows you to physically log on to the remote computer and shut it down as you normally would locally through the start menu.

Sorry I could not be of more help.

Edit: What happens if you create a user account on their PC with the same administrative credidentials as your user you are running it from (same user name, etc).

If not, you could try PSTools from Microsoft and run:

psexec \\remote-computer -e -h -u COMPUTER-NAME\USER shutdown /s /f /t 10