If you have a local windows network connection you can issue remote shell commands

For example we use this to reboot a remote machine
I don't see why you couldn't use perl to issue these commands directly or call a batch file

shutdown /r /m \\wibble-win2003
mstsc -v:wibble-win2003 /F –console

Checkout the windows command reference, it's a very good resource for windows shell scripting. I don't know if it comes with non-server versions but it's downloadable from microsoft.

Note:
Log on to target computer over local network as administrator or it won't reboot cos you don't have permission.

In reply to Re: How to execute windows dos command using perl and how to login to another windows machine and execute dos command in that by fluffyvoidwarrior
in thread How to execute windows dos command using perl and how to login to another windows machine and execute dos command in that by Divakar

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