Re: WOL

Hi,

I do the same for a client of mine - they turn their own PCs on from home. The way I do it is have a slave PC (Win 2000 as it happens) always on somewhere on the network. They connect in via a VPN, run VNC to that PC and hit the batch file for their own PC (just a call to the WOL exe with the appropriate MAC address) - that shoots off a Magic Packet to their PCs.

They have a mixture of Compaq and Dell. The Dells didnt work to start with - until I tried the NIC setting and used a new WOL program. These little programs are not all the same I have found - the one I use for the Dells is some obscure one:

See:  http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/t1004416137

The download is at the sourceforge link (wol 0.5.1) about half way down - I think there is a newer version around (0.7?) but I use this one at the moment untill I find a NIC it can't handle.

Try this one on a basic PC first so you know its up and running then try the server. If the server fails try a couple of the other options in the NIC settings re. WOL then post back.



Dave Nickason [SBS MVP] wrote:
aus - thanks for your input. I'd love to get this working, so any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. I have a situation where traveling users connect laptops to the LAN over VPN, then want to access their desktops but they're powered down. For now, I'm trying to get it working on my new Dimension 8400 with broadcom gigabit NIC.

I enabled WOL in the bios. I verified the setting you describe, and enabled the "allow this device to bring the computer out of standby" setting. No go.

While in standby, the PC responds to pings, and I can even access it remotely with Computer Management. But I tried 2 WOL magic packet programs, and can't get the PC to come out of standby.

What I really want is to wake it from a full power-down state, but I can't even get standby to work.


"aus" <aus@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23oQqBAlXFHA.3864@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dell machines generally need to have thair NIC settings changed to enable the standard Magic Packet WOL programs to work (many seem to miss this and think Dell has some problem).

In Windows / Device Manager / Network card properties / Advanced

find 'Wake on Settings' at the bottom of the list and select 'Wake on Magic Packet' (the default is 'OS Controlled').

Post back if this works - or not.


Skc wrote:

We have a Dell PowerEdge 2800 with x2 gigabit NICs with PXE enabled. I believe PXE is to do with WOL - (wake on LAN)?

If the server is swithed off can I wake the machine up? I have downloaded various free WOL programs and it is not working!

Help!




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