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Turn (power) a Mac on Remotely

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Onomontopeka

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Mar 31, 2010
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Hi,
Does anyone know of any software that can power up on a mac from a remote location?

To my knowledge, it can't be done but I wanted to see if anyone knew of a way to do this either through the same network, or through an outside connection.

I'm on a PPC G5 Tiger 10.4.11.

I'm thinking the power button needs to be pushed physically, right?

Thanks
-Matt
 
Onomontopeka said:
Hi,
Does anyone know of any software that can power up on a mac from a remote location?

To my knowledge, it can't be done but I wanted to see if anyone knew of a way to do this either through the same network, or through an outside connection.

I'm on a PPC G5 Tiger 10.4.11.

I'm thinking the power button needs to be pushed physically, right?

Thanks
-Matt
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You can set the timer for it to come on at certain times. Energy preferences I think.
 
old-wiz said:
There is a feature called wake-on-LAN, but it's only implemented in new Macs. The TCP/IP provides for it, but it needs to be implemented by software and hardware.
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But doesnt the computer need to be sleeping and not off for this to work?
 
old-wiz said:
There is a feature called wake-on-LAN, but it's only implemented in new Macs. The TCP/IP provides for it, but it needs to be implemented by software and hardware.
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wake-on-LAN kind of implies that the Mac is asleep. So I guess it can't be turned off, because it needs to be listening through the network connection to get a wake-on-LAN command right?

If it's off, it isn't listening and it won't power up.. Just assumptions here though.

edit: what MacBoobsPro said...
 
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