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A workaround to prevent auto-sleep after scheduled wake
Authored by: duraace on Jan 03, '07 05:46:48PM

Neither of the above comments get what's going on here. Once a machine goes to sleep, whether the machine is logged on or the desktop is locked, it will wake up to the authentication screen if in security you have "Require password to wake..." set . If no one enters a password, it will go back to sleep in 30 seconds. Having it wake up to an account that does not require authentication, is the only way to avoid it going back to sleep. No?



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A workaround to prevent auto-sleep after scheduled wake
Authored by: davidm on Jan 09, '07 08:38:41AM

Actually, "Derivatize" does have it right. When you go to the login window first (from the fast user switching menu) and then click the "sleep" button from there, it will just return to the login window the next time it wakes. It will NOT go back to sleep after 30 seconds. (I suspect it reverts to the usual energy saver settings.)

I use this method every day to connect to a remote Mac that I have set to wake up every morning and sleep every night.



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