NET USE and SHUTDOWN in bat-file

[pthomass]

Hi,

I'm trying to do a shutdown over my network. I can logon to the device(s) with

NET USE \\computername /user:administrator password

and I can shut them down with

SHUTDOWN -s -m \\computername -t 60 -c "Your computer will shutdown in:"

But now I want to put them in a bat file. But I cannot seem to get that to work. The NET USE thingy works. But for the shutdown it gets stuck into a loop of some sort.

Anyone an idea?

[scuzzman]

What's happening is the "shutdown" program is never exiting and is thus halting all other execution until it's finished (the nature of a single-tasking OS). You might try invoking a secondary Batch file with the shutdown command in it after the net use command. I'm trying to find how to background a process in batch (similar to the & in *NIX scripts) but my searches are not too promising...

[pthomass]

But why is it then,when I open the DOS window and type

shutdown -s -m \\computername -t 60 -c "Computer will shutdown"

it will excecute only once? I can see on the computer that I want to shutdown that there comes a window that sais that the system will shutdown and that you need to save your work. And you see a timer running.

But, when I put the same line in a bat file and run the bat file, the other computer doesn't respond. The window doesn't appear and in my DOS window the commandline keeps appearing over and over again. I need to type CTRL+C to shut it down.

I really don't understand why in DOS it works, and the some command doesn't work when in a .bat file

[scuzzman]

Does it also return you to a C:\> (or whatever) prompt?

If so, then the program is successfully exiting. Otherwise, it isn't exiting.

[pthomass]

I know what it is. On another forum someone gave the solution.

You need to type the following:

shutdown.EXE -s -m\\computername -t....

so the .EXE exctension needs to be present