So here's a common tutorial on how to SHUTDOWN any PC connected to you on your LAN network using LINUX based OS... first you need to get the IP address of those machines ,, inorder to do so you can try ipneigh or arp on your terminal.... if that doesn't work you should can always try install nmap an applet application for broadcasting to all the IP's on a network , this will get you a list of IP's so inorder to install nmap here's how its done yum install nmap / apt-get nmap nmap <IP> b suppose <IP> = 192.168.1.1 you should replace the digits with * (the more the * the more is the SCAN TIME) E.G.:- 192.168.*.* will get me a list of all the IP's starting from 192.168. now try these again- ip neigh or arp on your terminal.... after this you can use various commands like init1,init2 .... , poweroff , reboot ..... along with ssh . command ssh <IP> poweroff this is supposed to shutdown the other PC , you can also use ss...