Does anyone know if it's possible yet to wake an iMac from sleep via the internet? I'd like to use remote login via SSH to an iMac from an ibook, but it is quite useless unless I can wake the iMac from the internet.
rdowns said:Do you have the 'Wake for Ethernet administrator access" box checked off in the Energy Saver options panel?
Darwin said:It seems that for this to work you must be on the local subnet, when I am at home it works fine
When at university I have tried to wake my iMac from my PowerBook using a VPN but it doesn't seem to work either
Using a program called "Wake on Lan", I have been successful waking the imac from my ibook while on the local subnet. The only problem is, after it wakes the computer, either at the login screen or the blank active user screen (when "require password to wake this computer from sleep" is checked), apple sharing fails to connect and I can't see the shared folders on the imac.
I'm totally at a loss at what port I should use to forward the so called 'magic packet' to my imac's local subnet address from the wan address.
Oh, if I were smart enough to switch to macs when I was attending Nottingham Uni, perhaps I would've solved this problem long ago...