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Settings

Open Settings with the gear button at the top right of the main window, or from the tray icon's menu. The pages are listed on the left. Changes take effect when you click OK; Cancel throws them away.

The Security page and This PC's server on the Network page are settings of this PC as a remote PC, the part that lets people in. Changing them needs the person signed in at this PC or an administrator, and needs that part to be running (otherwise the page says so). Settings your organization sets by policy are greyed out, with a note saying the server policy sets them.

General

Unattended access needs neither: on an installed PC the service runs without anyone signed in.

Security

Accepting connections

How someone gets in to this PC:

• Password, or the person at this PC clicks Accept (the default),
• Password only (unattended),
• Only when the person at this PC clicks Accept.

See Letting someone connect and Unattended access.

Scam protection

Warn about first-time viewers (on): the first time someone connects, the request warns about phone scams, Deny comes first and Accept waits 10 seconds, and a one-time password typed by someone new needs your Accept. Only an administrator can turn it off (on an installed copy; on a portable copy only your organization's policy can), for PCs its own staff connect to every day. While someone controls the PC, a bar on top of every screen says so and Esc pressed twice ends it - that always stays.

The line below says how many viewers have connected to you before (they get the normal request). Treat them all as first-time again forgets them - useful if you let someone in you shouldn't have.

One-time password

Permanent password

Type a password of at least 8 characters into New permanent password and Again to set or change it. Remove the permanent password removes it when you click OK. It is stored only in a scrambled form. If your organization doesn't allow permanent passwords, the page says so.

On a PC with several Windows users, each user who is not an administrator has their own permanent password and their own choices for how connections are accepted: setting yours leaves theirs alone. Yours works while you are signed in at the PC, and at the sign-in screen while nobody is. A permanent password set by an administrator (in the app started with Run as administrator) works always and replaces everyone's own.

Two-factor sign-in

Set up two-factor sign-in..., Turn off two-factor sign-in, the number of remembered viewers and Forget remembered viewers. See Two-factor sign-in.

Direct connections

See Local network and Wake-on-LAN.

What viewers may do

The permissions a new session starts with: Mouse and keyboard, Clipboard, File transfer, Sound, Restart, sign out, shut down, Recording on the viewer's side, TCP tunnels, Terminal, Block my mouse and keyboard and Privacy mode (black out my screen). All are ticked at first. The connection manager can narrow them for each session, but never widen them.

Sessions

Network

Display

What new sessions start with. Each session's toolbar can change these for that session.

Recording

Folder: where session recordings go; Videos\Obsidian Remote unless you choose another. Choose... picks a folder and Open the folder opens it. See Chat, sound, recording and screenshots.

About

• The app's version, and the version and mode of this PC's host (installed or portable) with its ID.
• This PC's key: read it to someone connecting to this PC by address, so they can check they reached the right PC.
• Updates: Check for updates by itself and Check now. See Updates.
• Licences of the components Obsidian Remote uses and Open the log folder.

Where things are kept