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Hello Paul,

I'm glad to hear this!

Please do not hesitate to post another message if you have more questions.

Hello Paul,

Thank you for your message.

But I did not find anything about installing on a portable drive.

Portable Viewer doesn't require installation. If you already downloaded the Portable Viewer to your drive, then you can start working with it right away.
Portable Viewer stores all files in a single folder that you can copy onto the portable drive.
Here is a related Documentation article that might be helpful: https://www.remoteutilities.com/support/docs/portable-viewer/

Let me know if you have more questions.

Hello Tanner,

I'm glad to hear it worked for you!

Also, I have the viewer on other machines that work on the normal viewer fine.

It means that the config_4.xml file was corrupted and it was causing the issue. I highly recommend that you add the Viewer installation folder and the %appdata%\Remote Utilities Files\ folder to antivirus software exceptions list to avoid future problems in this regard.

Let me know if you have more questions.

Hello Tanner,

Thank you for your message.

The yellow monitor displayed on the connection icon means that the remote Host is accessible, but you are not logged on it yet.

FWIW, the portable viewer does work, so I'v been using that in the mean time.

Could you please clarify if you connect to the same Hosts using the same credentials and connection types? Also, please clarify if you launch the portable Viewer on the same machine as the Viewer that the issue occurred in?
If this is the case, the issue might have occurred if the Viewer configuration file (config_4.xml) somehow was corrupted or deleted. Please, try deleting the config_4.xml file which you may find in the %appdata%\Remote Utilities Files\ folder. This will reset the Viewer settings/options. Your address books won't be affected by this action.

Let me know if the issue persists.

Hello Luc.

Unfortunately, we couldn't reproduce the issue.

Could you please clarify if you tried the set clipboard command? It's located in the additional commands menu of the toolbar, in the Full Control window. Here's a related guide that might be helpful: https://www.remoteutilities.com/support/docs/full-control-and-view/#Additional_commands

Hope that helps.

Hello Basil,

Thank you for your message.

Could you please clarify if you mean the toolbar in the Full Control mode window? If this is the case, please make sure, you have the Pin button on the toolbar deselected:

This way, the toolbar is only visible when you hover the mouse pointer over the top edge of the Full Control window.

Hope that helps.

Hello Roy,

Thank you for your message.

Could you please clarify what email provider do you use for specifying SMTP server settings?
If you use Gmail, there might be an issue with your account settings. You should enable access to your account for less secure apps. Please, refer to this help page for more information:  https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en&authuser=1
Other email providers might have a similar setting that needs to be enabled.

If nothing helps I recommend that you try another SMTP provider, such as Mailjet. Please, note that Remote Utilities configurator only provides an interface to embed our SMTP server data. It doesn't control how the SMTP server works and doesn't perform the actual sending - the SMTP server does.

Hope that helps.

Hello Rob,

Thank you for your message.

Could you please send us the Host logs for examination? Here is how to locate the Host logs: https://www.remoteutilities.com/support/docs/host-log/
You can send them to support@remote-utilities.com

Also, please clarify what versions of the Viewer/Host are used?

Looking forward to your reply.

Hello Rob,

Thank you for your message.

Could you please clarify what type of connection did you use, direct or Internet-ID? In case you used the Internet-ID, please clarify if you used your custom RU server or the default server?

Also, please try referring to these troubleshooting guides for the Internet-ID connection or direct connection.

Looking forward to your reply.

Hello Barry,

Thank you for your message.

The issue is that the email code returned from the installer doesn't contain the client access password

When you configure a Host installer (e.g. a one-click installer) there are two ways you can set the access password:

1. If you sel ect Automatically generate password in Step 3 of the configuration the password will be randomly generated and unique for each Host that you install from that installer. You will receive that password in an encrypted email message and add to your address book by using the "Add code" feature. The downside of this method is that you will not know what the password is - it is generated for you and saved in the program.

2. You can skip selecting the "Automatically..." checkbox above and instead select Pre-configure Host settings in the last step, then enable "Single password" authorization method (or whatever other method you want to use) and set up access credentials there. In case of Single password, this means that all the Host instances installed fr om your configured file will share the same password. Also, since it is you who manually set the password the program won't be sending the password to you via email. Only the Internet-ID will be sent, and therefore the email message need not to be encrypted. Some users find this more convenient than the first method.

Please double check what method did you use. In addition, please note that you must use one method or another. If you just install a Host with no password at all you won't be able to access it because blank passwords are not allowed.

Let me know if you have more questions.