Shutdown Windows machine from linux terminal

Question

I am running an application on linux machine. By giving the ip address of a windows machine as input, the application must shutdown the windows machine. If the machines run

Answer 1

Option 1: Install SSH server on windows. Login to this server from any box and call shutdown command. We use Interix(Microsoft's unix like environment). It comes with a telnet server- allows to invoke windows commands from other machines..

Another option: If you samba installed on windows it can connect to windows and call windows commands

 net rpc SHUTDOWN ...

(from http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red-hat-fedora-linux/60324-remote-shutdown-windows-linux-box.html#post573872 )

Another option: try rdesktop to the windows machine with shutdown command ( I use it for running windows batch script which has shutdown in it, not sure if you can directly call shutodwn)