Hi, I have a mac mini in one room and a mac pro in another room. When the mini is awake, I can share its screen with the mac pro, but when the mini is asleep, it disappears from the list of shared devices in the mac pro's Finder. I heard that the mini would remain listed as a shared device, even when it's asleep, if I were using an Apple router. Unfortunately, I am using a Netgear router. With this setup, is there any simple way to remotely wake the mini?
I tested some of this yesterday. I brought the mini to the same room as the mac pro. I connected it to the Netgear router via an ethernet cable rather than via wifi and it remained in the shared device list, even when asleep. But it disappeared if I used wifi rather than ethernet, so I believe the information I was given is correct. I just want to verify and ask if there are any work arounds. So, is it true that to wake a sleeping mac, the sleeping mac must either have a wired ethernet connection or an Apple wireless connection? Is there any relatively simple way (or even a difficult way) to wake a sleeping mac that is connected wirelessly via a non-Apple router? Thanks, Gregg _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
