Akos

Yeah, you can use the psshutdown which you can get from sysinternals, or just use the shutdown that's included in xp or 2003 (don't know if it's included in 2000) Note that with the "net use" command you don't even need to be in a domain. As long as you have proper credentials for that machine you're trying to shut down, you will be able to do that.

Yeah, try: "net use \\computeryouwanttorestart\ipc$ /user:usernamewithadminrights passwordofthisuser" (without the quotes) Then the shutdown command that you gave. You're getting an access denied, so that gives hope that you will be able to reach it.