arp199 wrote: I have two windows 7 computers, the desktop running home premium and the laptop running windows 7 pro. I would like to be able to shutdown the desktop remotely but the computers are in a workgroup, not in a domain, so I don't know how to get administrative privilleges over the other computer. I have tried the command on cmd: shutdown /s /t seconds /m\\computername <file://\\computername>, but I get access denied. So how do I get around that problem. The computers are in the same workgroup and can see each other over the network. I can access shared files on the desktop from the laptop but the desktop can't access shared files on the laptop (if that might be a source of the problem). I doubt that is why I can't shutdown the computer but anyway, how can I shutdown the desktop remotely? The easiest solution is to have one identical user with administrator privileges on both machines. Then you can administer one machine from the other without extra authentication, if you are using the account of this user. Wolfgang

Use pstools like Brano Lukic suggested above. psexec \\remote-computer -e -h -u COMPUTER-NAME\USER shutdown /s /f /t 10 If you don´t define a "-p passwd" after defined user psexec will prompt you for the password. You can try psshutdown also.

I have two windows 7 computers, the desktop running home premium and the laptop running windows 7 pro. I would like to be able to shutdown the desktop remotely but the computers are in a workgroup, not in a domain, so I don't know how to get administrative privilleges over the other computer. I have tried the command on cmd: shutdown /s /t seconds /m \\computername, but I get access denied. So how do I get around that problem. The computers are in the same workgroup and can see each other over the network. I can access shared files on the desktop from the laptop but the desktop can't access shared files on the laptop (if that might be a source of the problem). I doubt that is why I can't shutdown the computer but anyway, how can I shutdown the desktop remotely?

you can try to run it as a different user ("run as different user") but i doubt it will work. The only thing i can suggest it to try to download pstools http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649 With this tools you can use psshutdown and supply credentials when you run it, so that might work.