Wake on LAN

D.Roberts · 15 Aug 2011 at 13:02

Hi all I am trying to get a pc down stairs to turn on when I ping it from me laptop.

I have remote desktop working fine for a start.

Ok I have a laptop upstairs that uses a built in Wifi card this connects to a Belking router.

From the router is a network cable going into the pc I want to wake up.

I have set up remote desktop as stated and that works great.

On the wired machine I want to wake I have enabled WOL in the BIOS and I all so set up in the hardware tab in windows (XP on both machines BTW) to allow this to WOL and under the power manager tab to allow it to bring it from a sleep etc.

But every time I start remote desktop and try to connect to me pc downstairs the computer wont wake.

EDIT

Can remote desktop bring a computer from an off state or do I need different software?.

Skidilliplop · 15 Aug 2011 at 13:17

Nope. You need to send it a Magic Packet. There a re an abundance of free tools that can do this. The magic packet wakes the PC up, then you connect to it.

Some NICs support wake on activity but this isn't always practical as random broadcasts and other junk traffic can wake them up when you don't want them to.

D.Roberts · 15 Aug 2011 at 13:20

Great thanks very much I am off to get me that app now I will report back

whats the best free one I see a few but tbh these things I worry about downloading cus they could be fake/viruses.

Thanks

ncjok · 15 Aug 2011 at 15:54

Depicus wolcmd and a simple batch script run from a desktop shortcut. A random Intel MAC address is used in the example below.

Code:

@ECHO OFF
"C:\path\to\wolcmd" 00:0E:04:A1:62:C3 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255
ECHO.
pause