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Also, are you running the WOL program with the default English language pack, or French?

Wake up does not require any permissions. Shutdown however, does require an account that has authority to shutdown the target computer. Error 5 means "access denied". Or your account is...

Does this happen in any other applications? I would look at your video card drivers. Update them. Also run "sfc /scannow" See "system file checker".

Are you able to ping one of those machines from your machine that you are on? From the command line?

That sounds like a firewall issue. You might have icmp echo blocked on those machines, therefore no ping.

Thanks for the information. I would say that HPE needs to be the one to improve, since WOL isn't doing anything wrong or unusual. HPE is misinterpreting simple WOL messages...

You did a very good and thorough job showing all the details involved in this. Well done. I have some suggestions. I think we should improve the soundtrack, the music...

I'm looking at it, but I haven't found the necessary api's so far...

Hi, I'm looking at that function, it does allow colons, dashes, or MAC addresses with just a simple 12 character string. I tested it with all three options. Perhaps there...

and what happens when you move the cursor to the next field, causing it to validate the mac address?