shutdown the computers connected in lan

if you are using windows xp professional, and your pcs belong to the same workgroup or domain, you need to have a common account for all pc's, say an admin account. then the subnet mask for the pc's should be the same (255.255.255.0 is the most commonly used subnet for home networks). if you have satisfied all of the above requirements, then you just need to issue the following command in your command prompt: shutdown /s /m \\computername that's all!

There are several software which could do this. A freeware I know is WinVNC. where you can view and control the actual pc itself.

You can shutdown another computer in your LAN network using a remote application, much like VNC http://www.realvnc.com/download.html You can have the server side installed on your station and the client on other station and control that other station remotely. Good luck!

yes you can do that remotely but you need to be the administrator or a user in the remote computer. you need to setup your network and use windows xp remote destop connection feature.

I shut down other computers on my network by "SSH"ing into that computer. You would need to install ssh and then simply run a batch file that would shutdown the computer. But for a simple method VNC would also be easy, requires less configuration and is an easy solution.