Wake On Lan Help Please

Relentless81 · 4 Jun 2014 at 09:11

Hi,

I would like to be able to automatically start up a computer on the same network every time I start up my desktop, I would have thought this would have been relatively straight forward using a scheduled task and a command line script or something but it appears its not that simple.

Can anyone share any suggestions of how they have overcome this please?

Thanks

meandu229 · 4 Jun 2014 at 09:19

Do you have WOL working in general just need it to start up when you turn on 1 PC.
Im sure you can write a python script/powershell script to do this if you wanted.
I found
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wake_on_lan.html

Which you should be able to add to your startup list with command line argument /wakeup MACADDRESS which will send the packet.

Relentless81 · 4 Jun 2014 at 11:34

I know the devices BIOS supports it but that's as far as I've got as I wanted to identify a solution before attempting to try it

I was hoping to avoid 3rd party software I suppose I'm just surprised its not a feature within Windows

Thanks for the link I'll have a look

Nymins · 4 Jun 2014 at 12:04

Check the BIOS has it enabled and check the NIC itself to see if the Wake on Magic Packet and any other WOL features are enabled.

C.R.A.Z.Y · 4 Jun 2014 at 20:24

This would possibly better suit your needs:

http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-cmd.aspx

bledd · 5 Jun 2014 at 01:53

This is what I use

http://www.matcode.com/wol.htm

So simple to use..

Relentless81 · 5 Jun 2014 at 17:51

Thanks for the links I'll have a read

bledd · 6 Jun 2014 at 13:24

To start you off..

Find out the MAC address of the PC you want to wake up. Set it to sleep

On another machine, open up a CMD window go to the folder with mc-wol.exe in

If it's in C:\WOL , type in..

cd C:\WOL

Then type in

mc-wol 00:11:22 (replace with the real mac) and the pc should wake.

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Then try it from a shutdown state