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<blockquote data-quote="globaldonkey" data-source="post: 780486" data-attributes="member: 49844">Thanks Jay - yeah checked remote registry was working. Sorry forgot to mention that.Hi netexplorer, I am not using the ping version. I wanted the server to shutdown if the machine was still running, but nasclient was not. I'm not really using your package for what it was originally meant - to allow an MP client to wake the server up and keep the server running while the client is still running. I'm using it for various clients to wake the server up at 3am and do a backup of the client to the server, and some clients, like my laptop, are always running, so they always ping, meaning the server will not shutdown. I just found the nasserver and power scheduler in MP an easy way to keep the server running for the backup. When the backup finishes, I kill nasclient, which inturn causes nasserver to die, and powerscheduler shuts the server down. I guess I could move to the ping version and start to be a little more energy efficient in making my laptop go into standby.... just need to work out how to stop it from going into standby while the backup is running, as the client is not an MP client and doesn't run power scheduler...... but would like to know why I can't do a pslist on a Win 7 machine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="globaldonkey, post: 780486, member: 49844"] Thanks Jay - yeah checked remote registry was working. Sorry forgot to mention that. Hi netexplorer, I am not using the ping version. I wanted the server to shutdown if the machine was still running, but nasclient was not. I'm not really using your package for what it was originally meant - to allow an MP client to wake the server up and keep the server running while the client is still running. I'm using it for various clients to wake the server up at 3am and do a backup of the client to the server, and some clients, like my laptop, are always running, so they always ping, meaning the server will not shutdown. I just found the nasserver and power scheduler in MP an easy way to keep the server running for the backup. When the backup finishes, I kill nasclient, which inturn causes nasserver to die, and powerscheduler shuts the server down. I guess I could move to the ping version and start to be a little more energy efficient in making my laptop go into standby.... just need to work out how to stop it from going into standby while the backup is running, as the client is not an MP client and doesn't run power scheduler...... but would like to know why I can't do a pslist on a Win 7 machine. [/QUOTE]

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