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And from Windows?!
Authored by: Mi And on Feb 23, '02 03:22:01AM

I know it would be nice if we all had Macs on our desktops, but the most common situation would be to start your home OS X machine from a PC in your office, running W2K for example.

Any easy solution for that? (I know I could install Python or Pearl and running those scripts from W2K, but that's a huge task. There must be some App to make that easier.)



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And from Windows?!
Authored by: Mi And on Feb 24, '02 08:00:48AM

It's nice if one is able to answer one's question himself ;)

A lot of Windows-tools can be found here:

http://www.gknw.de/wol.html

The one that worked best for me (in my local network at least, waking an iBook from my PC) is the GUI-thingy from AMD, linked here as "Magic Packet Utility".



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Another Windows option...
Authored by: jmordoj on Sep 26, '02 08:35:25AM
I have discovered another very useful Windows Application that lets you wake up a Mac using the "Magic packet technology" (I think it is an AMD technology), that does exactly that; sends a "wake up" packet to the Mac an wake it up. It is a very simple GUI app that asks for a MAC address (you can get it from the network preferences), and an IP. It works for my every time (iMac 500 slot-loading CD). You can get the program here: http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gui.asp

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