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RE: Wake on Lan
Authored by: Anonymous on Feb 20, '02 01:14:27PM

The original poster stated that he was remotely turning on his iMac. I wonder if this is a misprint when he probably meant to say waking it from sleep.

The original Wake on Lan, which involves booting up a machine that is turned off, is not supported on the macs. I could be wrong but I think this is the case. PC's that have this capability have an additional power cable from their ethernet cards to the power supply. The ethernet cards are always on when the machine is shutdown. That way they can receive the cmds from an admin to turn them on remotely.


Wake from Sleep over the network has been supported I think beginning with last years machines and OS 9.1. This feature is fine and dandy, but I have never understood while apple hasn't supported the remote booting option of wake on lan. If we can schedule a startup time for the mac, then it shouldn't be that much more to support the booting from shutdown.



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RE: Wake on Lan
Authored by: jknecht on Feb 20, '02 06:12:20PM

Try:

http://www.dslreports.com/wakeup



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RE: Wake on Lan
Authored by: phillipc on Sep 01, '02 03:04:58PM

I am not sure if Apple currently uses a feature of Wake On LAN for turning a Mac on but I do know that Apple had software before Wake On LAN existed (similar to Apple Remote Desktop http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/ ) that would allow Admins to start a Mac remotely.



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RE: Wake on Lan
Authored by: sandeepw on Jan 09, '06 05:52:10AM

I have MAC machine (version iMAC G5). Could anybody tell me that whether I can wake up this from shoutdown using Wake on LAN utilities. I have already started this machine from sleep mode. If anybody have any idea, please let ame know ASAP as its urgent for our project requirements.

Thanks & Regards,
Sandeep Wadhwa



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