See screen shots.įor gadget’s such as a WOL magic packet sender the ability to launch the application quickly means the difference from using it regularly, and consigning it to that folder of abandoned projects. Once you have primed the gadget with the NIC information just press the Wake Up PC button. Naturally, if the machine is asleep you will have to go around and run ipconfig /all on that machine. Where ‘victim’ is the name of the machine you ant to awaken. What I did was issue the old NBTSTAT -a victim command. The crucial step is to populate the ‘MAC Address of PC’ and ‘IP Address of PC’. Install SolarWinds’ Wake-On-LAN freeware on the machine from where you want to ‘bully’ the remote machine into resuming action from its sleep. Next seek the Advanced tab and scroll to the bottom to check that ‘Wake on Magic Packet’ is set to ‘Enabled’.
What I suggest you do is right-click the NIC, properties, then find the Configure button. Wake-on-Lan is a free utility to keep a network connection open, thus on the computer you want to ‘prod’, you need to check the network adapter settings. When a device is shut down, its network interface card is still receiving power and keeps listening on the network for a magic packet to arrive – enabling Wake-On-LAN to work its miracle!Ĭonfiguring SolarWinds Wake-On-LAN Widget Most modern network adapter can alert the computer to power-up once they receive a "Magic Packet".Īs long as ‘Wake-Up-On-LAN’ is enabled in the BIOS then the system will also resume just as if you pressed the power button. When you press the ‘Wake Up’ button on the gadget it sends a "Magic Packet" to the IP and MAC address of the remote machine you want to resume, just as if you were sitting there wiggling the mouse. How the SolarWinds Wake-On-LAN Gadget Works Configuring SolarWinds Wake-On-LAN Widget.How the SolarWinds Wake-On-LAN Gadget Works.Evaluation of SolarWinds Wake-up-on-Lan Utility Try it now! Wake-On-LAN is a free download. Wake-up on LAN is a free gadget that really will save you that long walk to arouse a hibernating machine, but my reason for encouraging you to download this software utility is because it’s so much fun to use. Encouraging computers to sleep when you are away from your desk is a great idea – until you need a file on that remote sleeping machine!
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