Moopere

Hello keeper-oregon, I'm not quite sure what you are asking. It seems you have a power outage solution already, via the APC/HP UPS. I haven't seen a UPS for many...

I know you left this report a while back, but in case you're still circling the problem. Installing and using WOL might have been coincidental to other network problems or...

Have you got administrator access on the remote machine you are trying to control? See a remote machine as online/offline simply means it is responding to a ping, it doesn't...

Thanks for the heads-up. I usually scan the changes.log but must have missed that one. Keeping this setting in the registry is fine - if it adds sanity to the...

What an interesting concept. I wonder if there is some fairly straightforward way to include some type of authentication?

No I don't think it will. The nature of the problem is because of the complications introduced by USB docks that have MACs. 'Normal' WOL: From a big field of...

Re-reading my post from a couple of years ago its really just a pipe dream. I hate it when new technology (USB docking) provides -LESS- functionality than the older tech...

Sounds like DNS not resolving the IP to me. Can you ping the Mac's hostname? I think WOL tries the host name, resolving to an IP which is then pinged...

Aha! This would explain this error which I've been getting for ages: ``` Password encryption error Padding is invalid and cannot be removed ``` My use case might not be...

You've got to have administrator permission on the remote computer you want to shutdown.