If you have rights or access to a userid with rights, use Win32::Lanman or Win32::NetResource to map to the remote machine's ipc$ share (w/o drive letter) as that userid (or do a net use \\remotehost\ipc$ * /user:[domain\]userid. If I remember right you must have 'Allow user to logon from the network' and 'Allow user to shutdown the system' rights. Then call 
Win32::InitiateSystemShutdown( 
                              $machine,
                              $message,
                              $count,
                              $force,
                              $reboot
                             );

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Returns true (1) on success, which you will capture, of course.

Remember:

$machine should have either \\\\ or // prepended to the hostname/IP address or simply "" for localhost

$message is a quoted text string to display in the pop-up on $machine

$count is the number of seconds for a countdown to shutdown/reboot

$force = 1 means applications will die in an undignified mannor, not saving data. 0 means apps will try to die gracefully, but may hang the request.

$reboot = 1 the box will reboot versus a shutdown (0)

HTH!
Dex

p.s. - there is a matching Win32::AbortSystemShutdown which, if sent before $count seconds from above, will cancel the shutdown.

In reply to Re: (tye)Re: NT RPC and Shutdown. by idnopheq
in thread NT RPC and Shutdown. by joshi

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