Server/personal options
The following options are available with server or personal RSHUT:
- 'Accept remote commands' - whether should the server accept commands from RSHUT server or not. Uncheck this option will prevent the server from controlling by remote RSHUT server. Can be turned on depend on your network policy.
- Together this option you can use the option 'Prompt for incoming commands' that will prompt you each incoming command from RSHUT server for the specified time (you enter the number of seconds for it). By default the request will be confirmed if it has not been declined within this period.
- 'Use password' - here can be enable password to use to send commands for remote clients. In this case the clients should be installed with the same password or without any password; else RSHUT client will deny the request. Using this field you can divide computer on the network into groups use different passwords and manage them separately.
- 'Use Power Off if Hibernate/Suspend not available' - enabling this will tell RSHUT try to execute 'Power Off' command when the command received is Hibernate or Suspend and the command is not supported by current PC or Windows (for example, hibernate option is supported in Windows 2000/XP only).
- 'Use broadcast Wake-On-LAN packets' - enable sending broadcast WOL packets with specified 'Subnet mask', so the packets will reach destination network card even through the Internet. Subnet mask should be same as used in your network class (for example, an Internet network of class C will have mask 255.255.255.000). In order the Wake-On-LAN feature being work properly your network card should support this; also computer should be configured to provide this support.
- 'Use native remote reboot/shutdown WinNT commands' - Windows NT and above (2000, XP) has built-in functions for remote shutdown or reboot computer in the domain. Enabling this option will tell RSHUT to use these functions for the commands 'reboot' and 'shutdown' instead of its own routines. Note, these native commands do not require RSHUT client be installed and running on the destination computer but sometimes it can be unable to execute it successfully.
- 'No requests/informs for MAC address on startup' - the option turns off built-in mechanism of notification each running RSHUT copy make for a server on the network of its MAC address(es). If you do not plan to use Wake-On-LAN requests you can turn on this option. Also this option can be used when you do not like being used built-in notifications and would like provide the MAC addresses of the computers on your network manually (see command lines options for the details). This option is not available in trial version.
- 'Don't use mailslots for remote commands in LAN (only UDP)' - by default RSHUT uses both UDP packets and Mailslot datagrams to send remote commands for clients. The maislot datagrams is actual for local Microsoft's networks and useful when there are no installed TCP/IP protocols on the computers in LAN or there is any restrictions made by firewall (see Tips section to make learn what UDP ports RSHUT uses). UDP can be used either in local networks so and in the Internet.
- 'Thread priority' - RSHUT is based on threads are executing simultaneously. A thread is a part of program that executes at the same time as the program. As example, each shutdown dialog displayed on delayed action execute is a thread. Priority of a thread (or a process) is a value that indicates significance of it in the system. If you are feeling that RSHUT sometimes uses too much CPU (usually when proceeding remote commands) you can lower its threads priority.
Shutdown options
- 'Set display state to', available values: 'Low power' and 'Shut off'. Setting this option will set monitor to the appropriate state on shutdown command execution.
- 'Close CD-ROM tray(s)' - close CD-ROM drive tray on shutdown command execution. Note: RSHUT supports multiple CD/DVD-ROM drives in a system.
- 'Open CD-ROM tray(s) when a disk inside' - sometimes we spend a lot of time to search a CD-ROM disk and finally it is found in CD-drive of a computer. This option will help you prevent such cases ejects all CD-ROMs whenever a disk is inside on shutdown command execution. This option can be used together the option 'Close CD-ROM tray(s)' so all empty CD-drives will be closed on shutdown.
- 'Emulate ENTER keypress in a loop' - when you shutdown the system an application can popup with a dialog (something like 'Save as:', 'confirm exit' or anything else) and the system will freeze until you will press ENTER on OK/CANCEL button. This option can work around this problem sending ENTER key to the system keyboard buffer so it be seemed like your own presses this key to confirm raising messages boxes. This will not be done all the time but with a delay and cycling it in a loop.
- 'Emulate RIGHT key keypress in a loop' - the similar option except emulates RIGHT key keypress. Can be useful in a message box where the default selected button do not provide necessary action to exit (as example - the system dialog Wait-End-Cancel).