So the idea is to get a notification on an ipad when you receive a specific email in gmail on a different machine? Is there a reason why you can't just forward the email to the ipad's email acct as high priority, and turn on appropriate notifications? (like this) Just seems like a lot of plumbing. (Not an Apple user here, maybe the notifications just don't work that well.)

I haven't noticed anyone post that the Altap Salamander file manager is now freeware - did I just miss the post?

Altap Salamander download page

Download Altap Salamander 4.0 - Freeware
Altap Salamander (including all plugins) from version 4.0 becomes freeware for both commercial and non-commercial use. Users of older Salamander versions can upgrade to version 4.0 free of charge. Version 4.0 requires Windows 7 or newer. There are not other limitations compared to commercial version 3.08.

Rings a bell. I found this in my old notes but looks like you've done this, but I could swear there's something else... let me look at more notes... :-)

"box would ping but could not connect to any mapped resources, kept giving "the network location could not be reached".  took out of domain, would not join back.
to fix, at a command prompt:
        netsh int ip reset c:\mylog.txt
then reboot.  the log file name in the above command is optional, but if you view the log after it may display incorrect values that the command fixed.
worked for brenda"