Solved How can I send sleep/restart commands remotely?

[noobpc]

Hi guys, I have a small Home network setup and I want a simple way of sending a command from my pc upstairs to a media pc downstairs which can shutdown/sleep/restart it remotely.

FYI, both pc's have windows 8 pro 64bit and the media pc is is mostly in sleep-mode.

Can you recommend any app or command methods?

 

[caperjack]

hello, let first I have never had the need to do what you want to do ,so I have never used the program in the link I;m providing ,but it looks like it will do what you want to do .how to use it is fully explained on the site .good luck .
WakeMeOnLan - Turn on computers on your network with Wake-on-LAN packet

 

[noobpc]

Thanks caperjack. Unfortunately I've already seen that app and I believe it only does WOL and not any of the other commands such as sleep or restart

 

[topgundcp]

From the PC downstairs:

1. Open registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
   Add a DWORD: LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy and set the value to 1
2. Win+R->secpol.msc:
   Security Settings->Local Policies->User Rights Assignment-> Force shutdown from a remote system and Add Everyone to the list
3. Open Device Manager and right click on the Network Adapter->Properties->Power Management and put a check mark on: Allow this device to wake up the computer.
4. In the BIOS, enable Wake On Lan

From the PC upstairs: Open Admin command prompt

1. shutdown.exe /s /m \\COMPUTERNAME /t 00 =====>where COMPUTERNAME is the name of the PC downstairs or the IP can also be used. For example: shutdown /s /m \\192.168.1.2 /t 00
2. To boot up the PC. Download the program from the link above given by Caperjack
   Type: WakeMeOnLan /wakeup COMPUTERNAME

NOTE: you can create batch files and include these command and run them as needed.

Use: shutdown /? to get other options

Hope this helps !!!

 

[caperjack]

Thanks caperjack. Unfortunately I've already seen that app and I believe it only does WOL and not any of the other commands such as sleep or restart

maybe you could use TeamViewer along with the WOL app .to sleep and restart the downstairs computer .
TeamViewer - Free Remote Control, Remote Access & Online Meetings

 

[noobpc]

Topgundcp - I'll give it a try and let you know. By the way, you've given me a command to shutdown, but what would the commands be for SLEEP and RESTART?

Caperjack - I already run tightvnc which does better than teamviewer, but all I want to do is to double-click on an icon and something like a batch file runs to the pc downstairs to sleep.

 

[topgundcp]

On the bottom of the previous post, Use: shutdown /? for other options. BTW, /r will restart.

In addition, you can also download: PsShutdown from MS SysInternals that has more options.

 

[noobpc]

Cheers buddy. Will let you know how I get on.

Thanks again

 

[caperjack]

Topgundcp - I'll give it a try and let you know. By the way, you've given me a command to shutdown, but what would the commands be for SLEEP and RESTART?

Caperjack - I already run tightvnc which does better than teamviewer, but all I want to do is to double-click on an icon and something like a batch file runs to the pc downstairs to sleep.

Ok,got you now ,

 

[noobpc]

Hi again. Thank you very much for the helpful post topgundcp. I have successfully managed to shutdown the computer. I also removed the EVERYONE group for security issues as it's not needed because I only want an Administrator to have the rights to send any shutdown commands.

However, I have a quick question:-
1. I don't want to just shut it down, but actually put it to sleep. I can't find this option when I type shutdown /? as it seems it only allows either shutdown or restart....Is it possible to do this?

EDIT: Ignore the above question as I have managed to resolve the above issue by using the psshutdown command:- psshutdown \\computer-name -d -m "COMPUTER GOING TO SLEEP IN 30 SECONDS". But the message is not being displayed in windows 8...Anyway of fixing this?

 

[topgundcp]

You might need to add an option -t 30 for the countdown.

I also removed the EVERYONE group for security issues as it's not needed because I only want an Administrator to have the rights to send any shutdown commands.

Since I am the only one to use the PC's so I added Everyone to make it simple. Otherwise I would have to put the User/Password on the command line for it to work.

FYI, On the shutdown.exe, you can use hibernate instead of sleep. The differences between the 2's is sleep will leave the PC state in memory and will require a little juice to keep it current, hibernate will write the current state to the HD (Hiberfil.sys) and requires no power.

Here's an example how I created 2 batch files to turn on and off the PC:

1. To turn on: E:\Portable\wakemeonlan\WakeMeOnLan.exe /wakeup Coyote-pc
2. To turn Off: shutdown.exe /s /m \\Coyote-pc /f /t 00

NOTE: On step 2, you can use /h to hibernate instead of /s to shutdown.

Hope this helps !!!

 

[noobpc]

Sorry for the delayed reply. Thanks very much for your help. I didn't see your reply earlier, but I managed to get the pc by using this command:-

psshutdown \\media-computer -d -m "COMPUTER GOING TO SLEEP IN 20 SECONDS"