Wake on Lan - only management stations allowed to wake?

[Guest]

I maintain a couple hundred computers at a school (so you'd think I'd know
what I was doing, not always so). I'm the one and only tech guy and I'm a
very busy guy.

Long story short, I want to be able to use remote desktop to access systems
whenever I want. This is not always possible because they often enter
standby state. Every single computer is pre-configured to allow remote
desktop and the adapter is set to wake the computer, but they are all also
set to "Only allow management stations to bring this computer out of
standby."

As a result of this setting I cannot wake any computer. What do I need to
do to make myself a management station or whatever? I'm belong to like every
possible admin group in the active directory. I just can't figure it out and
I suppose there is some small thing that would fix it.

I'm sure you'd say, well just uncheck that box and it'd work. Well yes it
would, but that would be very time consuming to do to every machine. It
should somehow work being checked I'm sure, but I cannot figure it out.

Thanks

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I maintain a couple hundred computers at a school (so you'd think
I'd know what I was doing, not always so). I'm the one and only
tech guy and I'm a very busy guy.

Long story short, I want to be able to use remote desktop to access
systems whenever I want. This is not always possible because they
often enter standby state. Every single computer is pre-configured
to allow remote desktop and the adapter is set to wake the
computer, but they are all also set to "Only allow management
stations to bring this computer out of standby."

As a result of this setting I cannot wake any computer. What do I
need to do to make myself a management station or whatever? I'm
belong to like every possible admin group in the active directory.
I just can't figure it out and I suppose there is some small thing
that would fix it.

I'm sure you'd say, well just uncheck that box and it'd work. Well
yes it would, but that would be very time consuming to do to every
machine. It should somehow work being checked I'm sure, but I
cannot figure it out.

A search brought up this.
Your answer is *magic packets*..

http://www.mcse.ms/archive67-2005-2-1381551.html

 

[Guest]

That takes me to some decent info. There is a link on that site that doesn't
work however, http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/ , and I couldn't seem to
find anything on AMD's site as someone else indicated.

However, I further researched the magic packet technology and found several
programs out there, none of which I have tried up to this point, but all of
which would require me to know the MAC address of the adapter(s) which I
wanted to wake up. That would be an unrealistic thing for me to know of all
couple hundred systems I had. I was hoping a simple attempt to connect to
the remote system from my computer using its netbios name would awaken it.
If it won't it might be easier for me to disable the option of "only allow
management stations to bring this computer out of standby". Or I just might
do without using this.

Anyone else any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

That takes me to some decent info. There is a link on that site
that doesn't work however, http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/ ,
and I couldn't seem to find anything on AMD's site as someone else
indicated.

However, I further researched the magic packet technology and found
several programs out there, none of which I have tried up to this
point, but all of which would require me to know the MAC address of
the adapter(s) which I wanted to wake up. That would be an
unrealistic thing for me to know of all couple hundred systems I
had. I was hoping a simple attempt to connect to the remote system
from my computer using its netbios name would awaken it. If it
won't it might be easier for me to disable the option of "only
allow management stations to bring this computer out of standby".
Or I just might do without using this.

Anyone else any ideas?

I know the mac addresses of thousands of machines I manage (well - have them
in lists) - that is one of the easiest things to get via script or whatever.
=)

 

[beb]

This product is like what you are looking for.
http://www.youngzsoft.net/cc-get-mac-address/

 

[Guest]

Excellent. Thanks a lot this will make my job so much easier.

 

[Guest]

Well I used this to find mac address, i also found a free command line
program (
http://www.matcode.com/wol.htm) it will get mac addresses and another
program will send the magic packet.

another free program to send magic packets its avaliable at
http://www.matcode.com/wol.htm

I tried both of these programs. I couldn't get either of them to wake a
remote machine.

On a technical note, I am trying to do this accross a VPN. I don't know if
that would cause a problem. I haven't tried to do it while physically on the
LAN.

I couldn't get the http://www.youngzsoft.net/cc-get-mac-address/ program to
resolve mac addresses remotely, however the other 2 free programs I listed
did resolve information. However the magic packet part failed to wake the pc.

Any more thoughts on this one?