Auto rebooting at night

[modularbeing]

Im trying to get my systems to auto reboot at night which I can do perfectly fine using shutdown.exe from my server but if the user locks the system and does not log out then nothing happens at all....Does anyone have any ideas or forcing the shutdown to occur if the system is locked or any other methods?

thanks

 

[svsawkar]

Are you using the built-in scheduler or doing it by hand? Scheduling the task with the right command line switches should do it.

/Siddharth

 

[modularbeing]

Im calling it from a batch file on my server....the only other switch there is that i havnt used it -f and that forces running applications to close so it can shutdown.....windows just doesnt do anything when its locked.....the only other thing I can think of is writing my own program and making it a service on each machine....but i dont know if that would work its just a thought.

 

[keithschm]

I use psshutdown. It is free and works great

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psshutdown.shtml