Wake sleeping Mac OSX, comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
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morenuf - 19 September 2003
All I was attempting to accomplish was to wake a sleeping Mac G4 remotely (2 G4s on same LAN).
I have 2 G4s on a small network via a router and often wish to file share. This works if both are on and wake just fine.
If one is asleep, the OSX Go To Server fails miserably after long delay. I can only get file sharing to work by going to remote G4 wake it, and return to the other G4 and successfully file share.
OSX 10.2.4 on both G4s
Router is MacSense (Xsense.com) MIH 130A XRouter Pro
both G4s set Wake for Administrative AccessI have found freeware Wake550 which is supposed to wake a sleeping computer. I can't get it to work. Found some info via Google about WOL (Wake On Lan) & Magic Packet which is how Wake550 works.
Some posts from others who opened Port 9 for UDP and some who also recommended opening Port 2304 for UDP. These did not work either trying with Wake550.
Should work but I am not a network expert, far from it.
Appreciate comments.
Morenuf
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Tom Stiller - 19 September 2003
Wake550 works as does the wakeonlan perl script. If both the waker and wakee are on the same LAN, you need not set any router port forwarding.
Some things to check for Wake550:
The correct I/P address (or properly mapped name) of the machine to be waked.The correct network broadcast address. Usually the I/P address of the target machine with the host address part set to all 1's. Example: my I/P address is 192.168.1.61 and the broadcast address for my network is 192.168.1.255.
The correct MAC address. You can find this from the Terminal.app with the 'ifconfig' command or from the Network perfpanel.
Tom Stiller
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