Cannot shut down remote WinXP Home machine

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So I would like to have the ability to remotely shut down one of the
computers on my home network. This is a Windows XP Home machine,
though, and I'm not sure if that's possible without XP Pro. As it is,
when I run 'shutdown -s -m \\machinename -t 0' from my XP Pro machine,
I get the error 'The network path was not found.' I can easily access
shared folders on this machine as well as ping it through the command
prompt. Remote assistance is enabled, and no firewalls are enabled(I
have a hardware firewall). The XP Home machine also shows up when I
run 'net view' from the command prompt, but for some reason it still
won't let me shut it down... Am I just missing something?

Thanks,
Chris
 
onedrum said:
So I would like to have the ability to remotely shut down one of the
computers on my home network. This is a Windows XP Home machine,
though, and I'm not sure if that's possible without XP Pro. As it
is, when I run 'shutdown -s -m \\machinename -t 0' from my XP Pro
machine, I get the error 'The network path was not found.' I can
easily access shared folders on this machine as well as ping it
through the command prompt. Remote assistance is enabled, and no
firewalls are enabled(I have a hardware firewall). The XP Home
machine also shows up when I run 'net view' from the command
prompt, but for some reason it still won't let me shut it down...
Am I just missing something?
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Tried doing it by the IP?
 
I hadn't thought about that, but I tried it and still got the same
error. Thanks for the input! Any other ideas?

Chris
 
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