PC rebooter script not working on some of Win 7 machines

[Raj83]

Hi All,

I am getting an issue with one of our script in AutoIT, RunASWait command seems not working in some of the Win 7 machine.

$Return=RunAsWait($UserArray[2],$UserArray[1],$Pass,0,@ComSpec & " /c " & Chr(34) & $BatchFile & Chr(34),"C:\Temp", @SW_SHOW)

I have tried on different machine with same user privileges, but it works on some machines and did not work on some. it dosen't throw any error but remote machine is not rebooting.

Please advice if any thing is funny in this code.

Regards,

Rajesh Suyal.

[MariusN]

all i can think of is, try and disable UAC and DEP...

Could be some interference OR...that its a 64-bit OS...happened to me with some utilities i have compiled as 32 bit. After converting it to 64-bit, it worked ( with the EXACTLY same commands/functions )

Edited February 7, 2013 by MariusN

[Raj83]

Thanks alot for your response.

I checked the UAC and DEP setting is same on both the mahines, also, both machines having 32-Bit Windows 7 OS. can you advise how can I compile it to 64-bit.

[Raj83]

$Return=RunAsWait($UserArray[2],$UserArray[1],$Pass,0,@ComSpec & " /c " & Chr(34) & $BatchFile & Chr(34),"C:Temp", @SW_SHOW).

Also, I would like to add here is if I click on the batch file (highlighted in red above) manually it runs ok, but it doesn't with above command on some windows 7 machine.

[Raj83]

Hi,

Can anyone provide me some hint of doing same thing by anyother way, here I am creating a batch file of reboot command for many machines and running them in one go. batch file created successfully and it doesn't work on some of the windows 7 machines. manually clicking on batch file runs fine.

[BrewManNH]

Is the batch file just rebooting the computer or does it do other things before the reboot? Because there's an internal AutoIt command for rebooting look up Shutdown in the help file.

[Raj83]

batch file contains only below;

shutdown -r -m VDTPXP-23-13 -c "Rebooted using PandL Rebooter by rsuyal"

EXIT 45

[Raj83]

the internal command is for Shutdown/reboot local machine. I want to reboot remote machine.

[Tonnie]

In the batchfile you posted, the -m VDTPXP-23-13 is a reference to the computername. Does it match the computer you are trying to reboot?

[Raj83]

yes, infact its working fine on all WinXP machines, but doesn't work on some Windows 7 machine. doesn't give any error but nothing happens if you look at the other end.

I am running the batch file via AutoIT code below.

$Return=RunAsWait($UserArray[2],$UserArray[1],$Pass,0,@ComSpec & " /c " & Chr(34) & $BatchFile & Chr(34),"C:Temp", @SW_SHOW).

On investigation I can confrim that above command is failing as if I click on batch file, it reboots the remote machine successfully.

$UserArray[2] : Admin User on both local as well as Remote machine.

$UserArray[1] : Domain.

$Pass : Admin password.

I am running with Admin Username and Password. Any Clue..

[PhoenixXL]

try with #RequireAdmin flag ?

[Raj83]

try with #RequireAdmin flag ?

Yes, I have already tried, but no luck. also check UAC on both the machine (where it's running fine and where it's failing) and its also same.

[Colyn1337]

When you run the script, do you get an error?

[LarryDalooza]

I always use '-f' with shutdown.exe to force it.

[Raj83]

This issue still haunt's me, does anyone have found any reason for the script now working.

[spudw2k]

Check the event logs on the machines that fail to see what the issue is.

[JLogan3o13]

Have you tried just doing it in pure AutoIt, rather than running an AutoIt script to call a batch file? Something like this?

ShellExecute("shutdown.exe", '-r -m \\VDTPXP-23-13 -c "Rebooted using PandL Rebooter by rsuyal"')

If you need to do the RunAs, you could always try it without the batch file as well:

RunAsWait($UserArray[2], $UserArray[1], $Pass, 0, 'Shutdown -r -m \\VDTPXP-23-13 -c "Rebooted by me"', @TempDir, @SW_SHOW)