[python-win32] shutdown remote locked PC

Kelly Black kelly at hutman.net
Thu Apr 15 15:06:49 CEST 2010


On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:11:03PM +0200, pacopyc wrote:
> Hi, I've a problem with locked PCs. I can shutdown them (with WMI), but 
> only if they are unlocked.
> How can I resolve it? Can you help me?


I think you can probably take the example here:

http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/03/27/restarting-pcs-with-python/

The rebootServer.py example has this line:
win32api.InitiateSystemShutdown(None, message, timeout, bForce,bReboot)
So you want to set bForce=1 and bReboot=1


Kelly


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