Hi Neil, You said that "screen sharing will only work to non sleeping computers." I probably mis-spoke. What I meant was that I want to wake a sleeping computer (and then use screen sharing).
First, if the sleeping mac is connected to the network via wired ethernet, then the sleeping mac can be awakened (and then its screen can be shared); I was able to do this. Second, if the sleeping mac is connected to the network via an Apple wireless router, then I believe the sleeping mac can be awakened (and then its screen can be shared); I do not have an Apple router to test this, but a friend tested it and said it worked. Finally, if the sleeping mac is connected to the network via a non-Apple wireless router, as in my case, I have not found a way to even wake it up remotely, much less share its screen. As you suggest, I will probably just set the preference to never spin down the hard drive, but I thought I'd try to be a little greener if I could find a way to remotely wake the sleeping mac (via a non-Apple wireless router). Thanks, Gregg On Sep 4, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: > 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? _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
