I recently upgraded to 9.18. Before then, I could open a window to my Linux box and leave it open for rapid access for days at a time. Since the upgrade, any time I leave it overnight, the first keystroke closes the session. Is there a setting to lengthen the timeout or whatever is causing this?

There is no setting in Absolute that causes an automatic disconnect. I've had connections for days and days, sometimes even weeks. Disconnects can be caused by server timeouts, network outages, PC hibernate/suspend, and overly sensitive firewalls. Your best defense is the keepalive, which can be configured at options->Properties->Connection.

It is most like coincidence that this began when you upgraded. Nothing changed in V9 that would countribute to a difference in this behavior. To be sure, try installing both your old version and V9 on the same box and running both overnight. If V9 disconnects and V8 does not, then we may have an issue.

Brian

OK, so maybe the difference is not the switch of Absolute versions but rather the move from XP to W7 with its difference in sleeping while I'm not working. Would the keepalive help that?

Enable Keepalives is *not* checked on the Connection tab.

Enabling keepalives will not prevent your PC from going to sleep. You'll have to make that change in control panel. Keepalives simply keep the connection warm to prevent the firewall and the target host from closing the tcp/ip connection due to inactivity.

Does this mean that for the connection to stay up, that I would have to disable the computer going to sleep?

I believe when Windows goes to sleep, all TCP/IP connections are terminated. This doesn't affect connectionless protocols like HTTP, but it does affect Telnet, SSH, FTP, and other connection oriented protocols.

So yes, you would have to prevent the computer from going to sleep.

Brian