Shutdown Windows machine from linux terminal
There may be more setup to do, especially for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and further windows versions, to allow remote shutdown:
Part A) On the Windows machine:
1) Add a remote shutdown security policy:
run
secpol.msc
in the program tree, open
Security Settings
>Local Policies
>User rights Assignment
Find the entry
Force shutdown from a remote system
Edit the entry, add the windows user account that will be used for shutdown (ex: nouknouk)
2) Add registry keys to disable UAC remote restrictions:
Run
regedit.exe
as AdministratorFind
HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System
Create a new registry
DWORD(32)
value namedLocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy
and then assign it the value1
3) Start remote registry service:
Open
cmd.exe
as AdministratorExecute the two following commands:
sc config RemoteRegistry start= auto
sc start RemoteRegistry
Part B) On the Linux machine:
1) install the package samba-common
:
It depends on your Linux distribution, but for Debian and derivated (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, ...), the apt-get command can be executed like that:
apt-get install samba-common
2) To actually shutdown your Windows machine from the Linux one, run the following command:
net rpc shutdown -f -t 0 -C 'message' -U userName%password -I xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt
Where:
-f
means force shutting down all applications (may be mandatory)-t 0
is the delay before doing it (0 means 'right now').-U user%password
is the local user and his password on the windows machine (the one that has been allowed to do remote shutdown in part A).-I
is the IP address of the windows machine to shutdown.
Command to shutdown windows system from linux -:
$ net rpc -S <ip address> -U <username>%<password> shutdown -t 1 -f
This command can be issued from bash or even set in cron job to shutdown the computer at a specific time and this command is shipped with many distros by default.
It's important to note that the above solution will not work if the username in question does not have a password set (at least that's how it was in my case).
For windows 10 (and below maybe, did not check) users one must go to the firewall settings and enable "Remote Service Management" for the linux box to be able to connect via rpc.