Novell and CMD

[GhostSixFour]

Hi guys

I'm trying to shutdown computers remotely using CMD, typing in shutdown -s -t 10 /m \\computername -c "blah blah"

However, I get error, 1707, network address is invalid. We are using Novell, aynone have an idea how to get around this?

 

[thisgeek]

shutdown -a aborts the shutdown.

Try: shutdown -f -t 10 -m \\computer

Ensure you have admin rights on the box you're trying to shutdown.

 

[GhostSixFour]

shutdown -a aborts the shutdown.

Try: shutdown -f -t 10 -m \\computer

Ensure you have admin rights on the box you're trying to shutdown.

I keep doing that. Entering the "-a" instead of typing "-s". Fixed now.
Still doesn't work.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

do you use tcpip?

then try using \\tcp-ip address instead of \\computername

if that fails, edit the hosts file on your pc, and add hostnames and Ip addresses as per the examples in there

then try again.

 

[Asha'man X]

Since you are on a Novell network, most likely your machines are still running in a workgroup. You need to have admin rights on each machine to do that, as well as the exception in Windows Firewall, though what that exception is I don't know.