NetHalt README Version 1.0 Copyright (C) 2008 Daniel Collins All rights reserved. ========================= About ========================= NetHalt is a simple utility which makes a Windows machine running Windows 2000 or newer shutdown at a predefined daily time, it is more powerful then the windows shutdown command as it can be configured to allow someone on the machine to delay or abort the shutdown depending on the machine's NetBIOS name. NetHalt is free software, you may use, copy, alter or redistribute it as long as you agree to the licensing terms in the COPYING file. If you find a bug, have a suggestion, etc, please email me. ========================= Installation ========================= The usual way of installing NetHalt is to copy the nethalt.exe, install.exe, uninstall.exe and nethalt.ini files to a fileserver share. This share must be readable by the workstation "Local System" account, so making it readable by Everyone is required. If you are only installing NetHalt on a handful of machines you could also copy the files to the local drive instead, which has the advantage of not requiring a fileserver. Once you have a fileshare, or local directory containing the NetHalt files simply run the install.exe program, this will check for the existance of the required files and create a service pointing to nethalt.exe program in the same directory as install.exe. To remove the nethalt.exe service just run the uninstall.exe program, this will remove the "NetHalt" service, no matter where it is installed. WARNING: When performing a network installation do NOT run install.exe from a mapped network drive, it will install but the service will not start as the environment created by the SCM will not have your network drive mappings. Run install.exe by UNC path, example: "\\MYSERVER\NetHalt\install.exe" ========================= Configuration ========================= To configure NetHalt you must edit the nethalt.ini file which is loaded from the directory containing nethalt.exe at startup. The included example.ini file explains the format.