Do you have the machines set to sleep after a certain period of inactivity? The wake from sleep option will only work if the clients are on the same subnet as the admin station. Michael W. Wheeler, OpenVMS, Windows, and Macintosh Systems Support, Tennessee Technological University On Jun 3, 2005, at 2:09 AM, Simon Forster wrote: > I'm using Remote Desktop to administer a bunch of client machines > but, if no user is logged in, I can't get to the machines through > Remote Desktop (unless there's some trick I'm missing?). i.e. If