remotely shutdown the pc

[banshi]

i m trying to remotely shutdown the pc but the dll which i m using return false

[chrisjk]

I've no idea what dll you are talking about, but check out this http://vbworld.com/articles/winsock/index8.html

[Frans C]

I assume you use InitiateSystemShutdown for this. This function will fail if you don't have admin rigths, or if you forgot to enable the SE_REMOTE_SHUTDOWN_NAME privilege.

[maverick_x2000]

check out http://www.sysinternals.com

they have a utility to remotely shutdown a pc provided you have
admin rights. i think source code is included.

[JungleMan]

This is a little different from the above suggestions:

If you run a "server" app on the other computer, and connect to it with a client (in Winsock), you can send it a data bit which will trigger the shutdown function, described here:

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=88483