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:
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run
secpol.msc
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in the program tree, open
Security Settings
>Local Policies
>User rights Assignment
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Find the entry
Force shutdown from a remote system
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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:
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Run
regedit.exe
as Administrator -
Find
HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System
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Create a new registry
DWORD(32)
value namedLocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy
and then assign it the value1
3) Start remote registry service:
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Open
cmd.exe
as Administrator -
Execute the two following commands:
sc config RemoteRegistry start= auto
sc start RemoteRegistry