Wake-on feature

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Steve Robertson

Hi,

I am a partner in a small contracting company with 3 Dell desktops on a lan.
They are in different parts of our building and I'd like to be able to use
the wake-on lan feature (if it is available to me) in order to do backups.
Each of the computers has the wake-on lan enabled in the bios. How do I
actually cause one of the other PCs to wake? The OSs are XP Pro and Windows
2000 Pro.

Thanks,
Steve
 
from the wonderful said:
Hi,

I am a partner in a small contracting company with 3 Dell desktops on a lan.
They are in different parts of our building and I'd like to be able to use
the wake-on lan feature (if it is available to me) in order to do backups.
Each of the computers has the wake-on lan enabled in the bios.
Click to expand...

This is necessary, but not sufficient - they also need a NIC (network
card) which supports this feature (the cheap ones generally don't), and
it needs to be wired into the motherboards in the right way .. since I'm
not a Dell aficionado, you might better ask Dell what is required.
 
hi

eye don't have Dell desktops, but had better add some here,
as Wake On Lan often save effort and time to some extent
(frankly, |<-this much only->| ).

old boxes - made it sure for years that NIC connected to the motherboard
with a pretty little wire, and Wake On Lan enabled at bios level. of course
all the boxes always connected to power source and lan.

WinWake.exe mac_address_colon_separated
as like
WinWake.exe 12:34:56:78:9a:bc
can wake up a box with mac address 12-34-56-78-9a-bc

recently got two types of new boxes (not Dell) basis Wake On Lan support.
if WinWake'ed, one type does not reports, while another type reports
something similar to:

Intel Boot Agent, Version 4.1...
Intel Base-Code, PXE-2.1 (build...
Client MAC ADDR ...
GUID ....
PXE-E53 ...
PXE-M0F ...
then 'Welcome to Windows' follows.

good luck!
brgds
-LEE S. K.
2003-08-06 we 23.16
 
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