back to my mac and sleeping

[benlee]

will back to my mac work if the computer you are going back to is in sleep mode? Lid closed?

 

[mad jew]

Unfortunately no, it won't work when a machine is asleep. A sleeping machine has no active network connection and the hard drive is not spinning.

 

[Eidorian]

Wake-on-LAN anyone?

 

[benlee]

So do people leave their macs awake when they go to work? Seems odd.

 

[Trepex]

Wake-on-LAN anyone?

Echo'd. This should work. I don't think you can WoL over airport though so you'll have to have a wired ethernet connection in order to remotely wake it and use that feature.

 

[mad jew]

I hope you guys are right. I can't see Apple giving .Mac WOL privileges though. Hopefully I'm wrong, like usual. 😎

 

[benlee]

I just don't see the point of this then I guess. I wouldn't leave my computer on constantly just "in case" I need to access something on it when I was away. Granted it may be useful for networked computers throughout a house or something maybe. It sounds like an awesome idea but I put my mbp asleep when i'm away.