[X4U] Re: Remote access to sleeping machine

[Linda]

On 7/26/05 7:43 PM, Stroller wrote:

> Wake-On-LAN (WOL) is the generic name for waking a sleeping machine
> across the network - as far as I am aware the technology is
> cross-platform. If using a Linux box to wake another machine you use a
> program called `ether-wake` and simply run it with the target's MAC
> address as parameter; I am sure there is something similar for the Mac,
> perhaps built into Apple's Remote Desktop.

In the Mac's Energy Saver system preference panel, there's an option to
"Wake for Ethernet network administrator access" in the Options tab (both
10.3.X and 10.4.X).

peace,
Linda