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 depends on your infrastructure -- how you authenticate to the Windows machines, whether you can configure them yourself, etc. If it were me, I'd put Cygwin on the Windows boxes, then ssh to them and run shutdown -h. There are surely other ways to do it, of course.