Managing my home network with Group Policy

[InYearsToCome]

I fancy myself very computer knowledgeable, but I've never dealt with Group Policy through networking before.

I'm the network 'admin' for my house of 8 people, since they are on my router and gigabit switch, and I'd like to be able to run some basic commands over the network when necessary.

Mainly, I'd like to gain the permissions to run shutdown.exe remotely on housemates computers to shutdown or restart their machines. ( shutdown \\computername /r)

Can anyone offer insight on this, or point me in the right place to look? :confused:

All computers are running XP Pro SP2

[Malk-a-mite]

I'd like to gain the permissions to run shutdown.exe remotely on housemates computers


....ummm, no. Sounds more like you just want to grief you room mates.

[dbwillis]

For the shutdown/reboots, look into ShutGUI from Microsoft, its a free download

Now to use it, you (I believe) will have to know the account/password on each machine that you want to shutdown/reboot.

[Uraki]

You might try "psexec" from www.sysinternals.com -- It gives you remote command-line access to machines on the network but you need to know a user/password in order to connect to the remote machine.

Great if you want to write a batch file/script to do things to other computers.

You could use Wndows Scripting but if the machines are XP Home, you won't be able to connect to them using WS.

[MorfiusX]

"shutdown -r -f -t 0 -m computer"
-r = reboot
-f = force
-t 0 = time to wait 0
-m computer = machine "computer"

If you are in a domain environment, this will work all day long. You just have to have the rights on the machines.

I have an AD domain at home. I use roaming profiles and folder redirection so everything is the same when I move from machine to machine.