WinXP - peer-to-peer - run a bat on a remote PC

[bekdik]

Do you know of a way of running a .bat file on PC-B from PC-A on a Wnxp-pro peer-to-peer network?

I want to run shutdown on the remote PC, but, being a peer-to-peer, I don't have sufficient rights.

 

[neobyte]

Quick Fix: Install VNC Server on the machine you want to connect to.
Longer Fix: Download and install a telnet/terminal server solution
Longest Fix: Write a small application to listen to a port for commands and execute as required.

 

[xrapidx]

why dont you just run shutdown and specify the remote pc's name? i.e. Shutdown /m \\<REMOTEPC>

EDIT: Nevermind...saw the rights thing.

You could always create an account on both PCs with the same username and password... and us that to execute shutdown.

 

[bekdik]

You could always create an account on both PCs with the same username and password... and us that to execute shutdown.

That doesn't work as the full names for administrator are
PC-A\administrator and PC-B\administrator and there's no way of giving local admin rights to the "other" one.

This problem doesn't arise if one's running AD as one can make any AD user a local administrator.

 

[Nerfherder]

Make the bat file and then use the windows sheduler on the remote machine to run it?

 

[thisgeek]

Quick fix - go to www.sysinternals.com and download pstools. In there is a nifty lil util called PSEXEC. Actually, since you want to shutdown, there's PSSHUTDOWN too... along with a whole lot of other useful PS tools.

 

[xrapidx]

That doesn't work as the full names for administrator are
PC-A\administrator and PC-B\administrator and there's no way of giving local admin rights to the "other" one.

It does work... look it up (google), as long as the username and passwords are the same on both sides (and its a workgroup)... its also covered in MS MCSE course.

 

[bekdik]

Quick fix - go to www.sysinternals.com and download pstools. In there is a nifty lil util called PSEXEC. Actually, since you want to shutdown, there's PSSHUTDOWN too... along with a whole lot of other useful PS tools.

Ah, that's what I was looking for. Searched and did not find!

Thanks.