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

Command to shutdown windows system from linux -:

$ net rpc -S -U % shutdown -t 1 -f

This command can be issued from bash or even set in cron job to shutdown the computer at a specific time and this command is shipped with many distros by default.