How to make "shutdown" command work?

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According to the docs, I should be able to type
"shutdown -r -f -m \\renderbox -t 60 -d up:125:1"
at a commandline to shut down \\renderbox remotely, but on my LAN of WinXP
Home machines, this always fails with "Access is denied".

How do I make it work? The machines have no admin passwords (not connected
to the outside world, they're just render machines).

Any help much appreciated.

h
 
It probably is failing because you are not using passwords. Network access
by default require that a password be used. You can change that [if you
really want to] on the target computer in Local Security Policy/local
policies/security options - accounts: limit local account use of blank
passwords to console logon only. --- Steve
 
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