Sorry I didn't see this one. Yes I use it nearly every day and it's very "trick". The motherboard and NIC need to support it and have it enabled in BIOS (and the WOL cable needs to be attached for generic MB / WOL NIC implementations), but once you have that everything else is very easy, especially if you're using DHCP or have other means of collecting MAC addresses.
If you don't have any network mapping software I recommend spending the $60 for NetworkView or similar (it is shareware and fully functional during trial use). Then you can have a view like this: http://thelumfamily.net/dave-n-sara/geekage/networkview-WOL.gif . Then with free tools like VNC and the WOL program I posted earlier you can wake up and remote in to any PC you want. The key to making this menuing work for WOL is a good old fashioned batch file. I actually have two batch files - one that NetworkView uses to call a specific PC, and another to wake all the PC's. The one with NetworkView (which can pass a variable - MAC, TCP/IP or Machine Name - to an external program) looks like this: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - @echo off goto %1 :00065f250ff1 WOL 00065f250ff1 GOTO END :0000bf250011 WOL 0000bf250011 GOTO END :END - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The one that wakes all of them at once is this file with all the GOTO lines removed. Now if I could find a free utility to turn them all OFF at once...although I found I can do this with my patch management software which is just as cool but doesn't help you guys. Of course you can always drop to the command line and manually type "WOL <mac address>" for each machine you want to wake up. If you want more help with this contact me off list. Dave Lum - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Network Specialist - Textron Financial 503-675-5510 -----Original Message----- From: Don Schenk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 00:32 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: Wake on lan Anyone using Wake on lan technology? Could you point me in the right direction to get started, if so. We could have saved ourselves a lot of time, if we had been able to wake up machines during the recent virus crisis. Thanks, Don Schenk, Huntington Beach, CA. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bounce-nt2000- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Gregg > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:48 PM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: Re: Workstation > Active user > > nbtstat -an <name of remote pc> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matt Plahtinsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "NT 2000 Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:32 AM > Subject: Workstation > Active user > > > Is there a way to check what user is currently logged into a pc from the > network? Example: looking at the firewall I see workstation-123 doing > strange things. How do I find out the user account that's logged in with > out physically walking over to that machine and checking which account is > logged in. > > Thanks > > Matt > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi- > bin/lyris.pl?enter=nt2000&text_mode=&lang=english > To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > > > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi- > bin/lyris.pl?enter=nt2000&text_mode=&lang=english > To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=nt2000&text_mode=&lang=e nglish To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=nt2000&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
