Mike. Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 (edited) Hi, i have a master workstation, and some slaves. i can access remotly to my slaves with remote desktop. but for the moment, i cannot start them remotly, i have to do this manually.... this is not very confortable. Would anyone know a sotware to start my machines remotly ? i tried to setup WOL with magic packets, but it fails..... tried many little package, no sucess. this would be very very cool... Edited February 4, 2009 by Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandmanNinja Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 SandmanNinja says... Have you tried pinging them? If you can connect to any computer on the network, just ping the workstation in question and that should force it to wake up. -SandmanNinja's Wife Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike. Posted February 4, 2009 Author Share Posted February 4, 2009 Nice to meet you SandmanNinja's wife say thanks to your husband, and tell him i'll try this just after my ongoing render is finished on a slave. (please) have a nice day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike. Posted February 4, 2009 Author Share Posted February 4, 2009 thanks for the advice, but pinging the workstation won't do anything. WOL is enabled in lan card, and in the BIOS too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Buchhofer Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 you are supplying the mac address of the machine you're trying to WAKE right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike. Posted February 5, 2009 Author Share Posted February 5, 2009 you are supplying the mac address of the machine you're trying to WAKE right? no, i'm supplying the mac adress of the network card of the machine i'm trying to wake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike. Posted February 5, 2009 Author Share Posted February 5, 2009 i think i understand what happens. i have broadcom netxtreme gigabit nics. 2 per slave. but only one nic can be "asf compliant", and have it OOB management activated. unfortunately, it seems i enabled the wrong cards on each slave. i'll try to switch nics when i have time thanks for your support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike. Posted February 5, 2009 Author Share Posted February 5, 2009 I won over the NIC hahaha it was an asf enable problem......Broadcom specific necessity it seems other NICS don't need that thing. i won't know exactly how to explain it, but i activated asf management on NICS, installed ASF Management console, and now they wake up like a baby :) :) i can wake up my slaves just by pressing a little button, that's pretty cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike. Posted February 6, 2009 Author Share Posted February 6, 2009 ok, now that i can wake up my salves, i would like to have a gui to shut them down and wake them up, rather than sending magic packets with a crappy freeware to wake them up, and RDP alt+f4 them to shut them down..... Would anyone know a nice solution ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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