Remote wake or turn on

Every thing is running on ML using Back to My Mac. Two different WiFi
connections. Home Computer is a Mac Pro. Travel computer is a Mac Book
Pro. Router is a Airport Extreme with my iCloud ID entered in the
appropriate place. One iCloud acc with both computers signed into the
same iCloud acc. I know the common iCloud acc is what lets the two
computers connect even on different Wifi connections. Connecting the two
computers works fine then screen sharing works great.

My one and only big problem is I can't/don't want to go vacation and not
at least let my Mac Pro Sleep. I go for up to a month at a time. I can
not get My Mac Pro to wake form sleep. In System Preferences/Energy
Saver I do have "Wake for network access" checked and I thought that
would do it but no luck. I have tried it with my Mac Pro connected with
ethernet and wifi and both work fine. I have installed no extra software
everything I need to connect and screen share seems to be built into
Mountain Lion.

I have seen some utilities ETC. that work if you are on the same network
but none that work if on different networks. Some claim to but I can't
get them to work. I have a disk that is a clone in my Mac Pro for
testing and have used that with apps like Splashtop2 and the built in
features in ML seem to work much better.

Any help form the would be greatly appreciated.

John Young wrote:
> Every thing is running on ML using Back to My Mac. Two different WiFi
> connections. Home Computer is a Mac Pro. Travel computer is a Mac Book
> Pro. Router is a Airport Extreme with my iCloud ID entered in the
> appropriate place.


The "wake on lan" only work on hardwarired ethernet as I recall (noy
100% sure). It is a layer 2 protocol (ethernet level) which builds the
ethernet packet in a special way. And the sender need to know the
ethernet address of the computer to wake so it can build the packet
directed at it.

I believe that while the protocol theoretically allows one to write such
an application to send the "wake up" packet to the mac, Apple expects
you to use one of its routers to do that job. (Airport something).

I read up on this some time ago and it is sort of wishy washy in my
memory by now. But this may give you some track to follow to get more
details.

In message <502f3052$0$44374$c3e8da3$ om>
JF Mezei <> wrote:
> John Young wrote:
>> Every thing is running on ML using Back to My Mac. Two different WiFi
>> connections. Home Computer is a Mac Pro. Travel computer is a Mac Book
>> Pro. Router is a Airport Extreme with my iCloud ID entered in the
>> appropriate place.


> The "wake on lan" only work on hardwarired ethernet as I recall (noy
> 100% sure).

That used to be the case, but is not the case for quite a few years. The
wireless variety is called WoWLAN instead of WoL.

To activate it, you just have to send a valid "magic packet" to the
device. It is possible to have an old router that will discard WoL
packets, but it would have to be pretty old.

--
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In article <>,
Lewis <> wrote:

> In message <502f3052$0$44374$c3e8da3$ om>
> JF Mezei <> wrote:
> > John Young wrote:
> >> Every thing is running on ML using Back to My Mac. Two different WiFi
> >> connections. Home Computer is a Mac Pro. Travel computer is a Mac Book
> >> Pro. Router is a Airport Extreme with my iCloud ID entered in the
> >> appropriate place.
>
>
> > The "wake on lan" only work on hardwarired ethernet as I recall (noy
> > 100% sure).
>
> That used to be the case, but is not the case for quite a few years. The
> wireless variety is called WoWLAN instead of WoL.
>
> To activate it, you just have to send a valid "magic packet" to the
> device. It is possible to have an old router that will discard WoL
> packets, but it would have to be pretty old.

The Router is a Airport Extreme with v7.6.1 which is the current
firmware.I have tried it with ethernet,WiFi and both connected to my Mac
Pro5,1. I really think its a setting in the Airport Extreme. Most of
what I find while searching with Google is old material. Still I;
Thank you Lewis and JF Mezei for your replies! I am still searching any
more help would be great.

In article <jy->,
John Young <> wrote:

> In article <>,
> Lewis <> wrote:
>
> > In message <502f3052$0$44374$c3e8da3$ om>
> > JF Mezei <> wrote:
> > > John Young wrote:
> > >> Every thing is running on ML using Back to My Mac. Two different WiFi
> > >> connections. Home Computer is a Mac Pro. Travel computer is a Mac Book
> > >> Pro. Router is a Airport Extreme with my iCloud ID entered in the
> > >> appropriate place.
> >
> >
> > > The "wake on lan" only work on hardwarired ethernet as I recall (noy
> > > 100% sure).
> >
> > That used to be the case, but is not the case for quite a few years. The
> > wireless variety is called WoWLAN instead of WoL.
> >
> > To activate it, you just have to send a valid "magic packet" to the
> > device. It is possible to have an old router that will discard WoL
> > packets, but it would have to be pretty old.
>
> The Router is a Airport Extreme with v7.6.1 which is the current
> firmware.I have tried it with ethernet,WiFi and both connected to my Mac
> Pro5,1. I really think its a setting in the Airport Extreme. Most of
> what I find while searching with Google is old material. Still I;
> Thank you Lewis and JF Mezei for your replies! I am still searching any
> more help would be great.

One more thought...I don't care how I wake the home computer as long as
I can at any given time. Is there an iPhone app that might turn on a
computer?

In article <jy->,
John Young <> wrote:

> In article <jy->,
> John Young <> wrote:
>
> > In article <>,
> > Lewis <> wrote:
> >
> > > In message <502f3052$0$44374$c3e8da3$ om>
> > > JF Mezei <> wrote:
> > > > John Young wrote:
> > > >> Every thing is running on ML using Back to My Mac. Two different WiFi
> > > >> connections. Home Computer is a Mac Pro. Travel computer is a Mac Book
> > > >> Pro. Router is a Airport Extreme with my iCloud ID entered in the
> > > >> appropriate place.
> > >
> > >
> > > > The "wake on lan" only work on hardwarired ethernet as I recall (noy
> > > > 100% sure).
> > >
> > > That used to be the case, but is not the case for quite a few years. The
> > > wireless variety is called WoWLAN instead of WoL.
> > >
> > > To activate it, you just have to send a valid "magic packet" to the
> > > device. It is possible to have an old router that will discard WoL
> > > packets, but it would have to be pretty old.
> >
> > The Router is a Airport Extreme with v7.6.1 which is the current
> > firmware.I have tried it with ethernet,WiFi and both connected to my Mac
> > Pro5,1. I really think its a setting in the Airport Extreme. Most of
> > what I find while searching with Google is old material. Still I;
> > Thank you Lewis and JF Mezei for your replies! I am still searching any
> > more help would be great.

Using Airport Utilities/Network/Enable Access Control.
I checked "Enable Access Control" and set no times limits.
Seems to work fine. The Mac Book Pro going through iCloud wakes the Mac
Pro and gives me complete control of the Desktop with the Mac Pro
connected to my home network and the Mac Book Pro connected to a Verizon
4G lte Jetpack MiFi that I use for travel.
Thanks again!

Lewis wrote:

> To activate it, you just have to send a valid "magic packet" to the
> device. It is possible to have an old router that will discard WoL
> packets, but it would have to be pretty old.

By definition, a router will discard the wake on lan packet because the
later is a layer 2 ethernet packet, and routers are layer 3.

Combinations of router/bridge (bridge=switch in modern terms) may or may
not work depending on their config.

Where the airport box different is that it has software to remember the
ethernet address of a host (permanenly, not via arp), so you can send an
IP packet to the Airport asking it to wake a machine by IP address. The
Airport will then send the magic ethgernet packet on the LAN, addressed
to that machine's ethernet address.

On 08-18-2012 07:34, John Young wrote:
> One more thought...I don't care how I wake the home computer as long as
> I can at any given time. Is there an iPhone app that might turn on a
> computer?

I haven't bought it, but I heard a teacher raving about using
"Splashtop" to control her computer from anywhere in the classroom.

There are two apps whose names start with Splashtop. One of them
includes a wake-on-LAN feature.

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In article <502fcef6$0$1862$c3e8da3$ >,
JF Mezei <> wrote:


> Where the airport box different is that it has software to remember the
> ethernet address of a host (permanenly, not via arp), so you can send an
> IP packet to the Airport asking it to wake a machine by IP address. The
> Airport will then send the magic ethgernet packet on the LAN, addressed
> to that machine's ethernet address.

Works every time for me as long as I'm logged into the same iCloud ACC.
Does not matter what Wifi networks I am using on which computer.
Special thanks to JF Mezei for taking the time to answer and always
having the correct answers. I don't think I ever would have started
looking at the AirPort Extremes setting if he had not pointed me in that
direction.