Shutting down a remote computer on Home Network.

I have a small home network with mixed XP and Windows 7, which sits behind a router. There are some wired and wireless connections. One of the wired XPs (ZZ say) controls a printer which is shared. The PC has no other function.
At present ZZ uses autologon when switched on and this works well - all network PCs can use the printer. I want to be able to turn it off remotely, but when I use the command "shutdown -s -m \\ZZ -t 10" I get the response "The network path was not found". I can ping it using its name or IP address and it appears in "My Network places". I read somewhere that winsock might be damaged. I used the MS Winsock2 Fixit but that made no difference.
I would be grateful for any advice or suggestions.

 

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/remote-shutdown-does-not-work-t1738280.html

there is a solution in the above thread that may work for you

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https://www.google.com/#q=the+network+path+was+not+found,+when+trying+to+remote+shutdown++windows+xp

google search page for this issue, I do not have a lot of experience with a network. but read several threads through and your issue should be discussed.

 

Thanks for the quick reply and for the links.

 

hope they help