what exactly is a valid password and username?
or do i just make one up?
do i have to use only alphanumerics if i do make one?

No arctic warrior, you cant just login with a random user/pass combination and expect it to allow you to login. What would be the point of that? Letting people have access to your computer without even having to verify their identity? Not a good idea. What you need to do is login with an account that you have on the machine. When windows starts up, it does one of two things. Presents you with a window that allows you to click on the user name you wish to login with, and then type the password, or, presents you with a window that asks for you to type in a username and password combination. So ask yourself these questions; What username do i click when i start up? Does it have a password prompt show up when i click it? Or, if i am presented with a prompt for user name and password, what do i type in for these values? After you ask yourself, and answer those questions, do the following. Find the post in this thread about starting a telnet server on your computer. Then, telnet to your computer, type in the user name and password values that you use to login with when logging in locally, and then type "shutdown -s" when displayed with the command prompt.

oh I see. That makes more sence. Sorry for being such a dumb ass. Yeah that password thing was the only problem that I had.

What windows boxes actually have telnet enabled (port 23) ????

I believe 2003/2000 have telnet available; you can also download a 3rd party program to function as telnet access on most versions of windows.

Yeh. For 2000/2003 you go to the Control Panel, then Services, scroll down to "Telnet", double click it, enable it, start it, and set it to auto start on the machines startup. If you have a previous version of windows, just follow these instructions; http://www.undergroundnews.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/8/98.html#000003

Im talking about enabled by default, out of the box, like you install and it has telnet enabled.

There isn't one enabled by default on any windows platform. For the NT based OS's, like 2000 and 2003, you just have to turn it on via the control panel, like i said in my previous post.

nah nah nah...its easy. you gotta log in to your local computer as local Administrator with unrestricted local rights. Then you use
shutdown -s -f -m \\computername -t 0
That should work in xp pro for sure, done it at school plenty. The only reason I can think for that not working is if you were trying to kick off an administrator on the computer you are attempting to shut off. Works fine at school on WinXP Pro.

I have tried the shutdown command and it doesn't work from the like 4th post on this topic

Keep reading then. There's a pile of suggestions in this thread

Ahem i have read and installed that KpyM telnet thingy and i cannot connect to a computer either and im using windows 2000..

KpyM telnet is giving me problems. I'm not sure exactly how to run this. Sorry to inconvience anyone over this question. I'm currently running a windows XP home edition.

I think a better way around using telnet is to use another XP command to help with authentication to the remote computer which is the problem here...

runas /netonly /user:\ "shutdown -s -m \\"

The runas command allows you to specify a different user to execute a program that the current user wouldn't have access to. In this case using the /netonly switch targets the remote computer for the authentication.

After executing the above it will ask you for a password for the remote user and it keeps the password hidden from anyone watching.

Hope this helps.

mrBob

i've been wondering about this for a while too. i had the same problem.

thanks for the tip