Remote Shutdown using Windows XP Group Policy

Windows XP Group PolicyIs very powerful, and its application skills often play an unexpected role. The following describes how to use the Windows XP Group Policy to remotely shut down the system.

In Windows XP's default security policy, only users in the Administrator group have the right to disable the computer from the remote end. Generally, when we access the computer from other computers, therefore, when we execute the shutdown command, access is denied.

Therefore, you only need to grant the remote shutdown permission to the Guest user in the customer computing. This can be achieved by using the Windows XP Group Policy or the "Local Security Policy" in the "Administrative Tools" in Windows XP. The following uses windows XP group policy as an example.

1. Click Start, select Run, enter gpedit. msc in the dialog box, and click OK to open the Group Policy Editor ".

2. on the left side of the windows XP Group Policy window, choose computer configuration> Windows Settings> Security Settings> Local Policies> User Privilege assignment ".

3. In the windows XP Group Policy window, select Force shutdown from the remote system ". In the displayed dialog box, only members in the "Administrators" group have the right to remotely shut down the instance. Click the "add user or group" button at the bottom of the dialog box, in the displayed dialog box, enter "guest" and click "OK ".

4. A "guest" user is added to the "Force Shutdown From Remote System" attribute, click "OK", and close the windows XP Group Policy window.

After the above operations, we grant the remote shutdown permission to the guest user on the computer. In the future, we need to remotely shut down the computer, as long as other computers with Windows XP installed in the network enter the following command: shutdown-s-m lean-t 30 shut down the computer named lean within 30 seconds ). At this time, a "system shutdown" dialog box will be displayed on the screen of the netproxy computer, so that the remote shutdown will be OK.

It is hoped that the remote shutdown method using the Windows XP group policy in this article will be helpful to readers. More knowledge about group policies needs to be learned and consolidated by readers.