In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Rob Morley
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>For Win9x you could try RemoteShut: http://www.ykwong.com/rs.html - this
>is very small and simple - no installation required.
Thanks for this pointer. I have tried it out and it works. I have
found a difficulty with it and I wondered whether you knew a way round
it. I have installed the server on a PC that I start by Wake On Lan on
the NIC.
I put RemoteShut in the start menu. However it seems to need human
intervention as it starts in idle mode, and it needs to be in Server
Started mode before it will respond to the remote command. It seems the
only way to achieve this is by clicking the Start button with the mouse
in the remote application.
All I am trying to do is start the remote PC by WOL, upload or download
files over the Windows network and then shut it down. For the time
being I have the BIOS on the remote PC set to power down after 20
minutes idle, but that is rather a brute force method, and when I
restart the PC, Windows 98 whinges and runs Scandisk.
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John Blundell
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