Screen sharing will only work to non sleeping computers. You could set up magic 
packets to use the wake on LAN capabilities built into almost all modern NIC 
chips…but what I do is set the monitor to sleep but never sleep computer and 
never spin down hard drive in Energy in system prefs. Keeping the drive 
spinning and CPU awake takes very little power compared to the display. You 
could set the drive to spin down…but I would be surprised if the boot drive on 
any Mac would spin down much, if at all. 

neil

The three kinds of stress…nuclear, cooking and a&&hole. Jello is the key to the 
relationship. 

On 2011-09-04, at 14:37, Gregg Dinse <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 
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