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

It's important to note that the above solution will not work if the username in question does not have a password set (at least that's how it was in my case).

For windows 10 (and below maybe, did not check) users one must go to the firewall settings and enable "Remote Service Management" for the linux box to be able to connect via rpc.