I've been fighting an odd problem for a few weeks now. We have nearly
a hundred W2K servers for a project. Many of them reboot nightly. A
couple months ago, our scheduled reboot script seemed to quit working.
The script was still running, but the servers weren't rebooting. We
normally used the shutdown.exe from MS, and I've also tried the
psshutdown.exe from sysinternals, and neither seem to work. We
haven't made any security changes, but we have installed some windows
hotfixes. I haven't been able to track it down to a specific one yet
though.

Is anyone else having this problem or have they found a solution? I
seem to find partial fixes, where I can get shutdown.exe to work, but
only if the console it logged in, or it will work but not in a
scheduled batch file. Just been pulling my hair out and could use
some help please.

If I run shutdown.exe /r locally as admin, I get the following
message:

"Unable to Shutdown Specified Server. Reasons may include:"
1. You misspelled the computer name
2. The computer is not a Windows NT computer
3. You do not have sufficient access to reboot the computer
4. The computer cannot be found on the network

None of these problems are possible tho...

Please help, soon to be bald.