Waking up the PC

Bambi234

Greetings one and all

Have a bit of of teaser here to do with networking.

I have 3 computers all running Windows 7 and one of them being a laptop the other 2 are wired. They are all networked and can see files on the other ones and I am able to modify from one to another pc with no problem.

If i haven't used one of the pcs for a while it will go into standby then if i try and access it from another pc i have no joy..

Is there a way of waking the PC up /taking it of of standby remotely. This would then enable me to access said PC

Any help would be appreciated
Bambi

savemoney

Haven't tried this myself but I think there is a setting in the pc bios when you boot up that's called "wakeup on lan"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
http://itworkerdaily.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/wol-wake-up-on-lan-how-to-set-it-up/

John_Gray

How technical are you? Do you know how to find the MAC address of the Network Interface Card (NIC) on the target PC? Can you set up a desktop shortcut? Are you familiar with Device Manager?

I use WolCmd many times a day at work to do precisely what you want to do, but it needs some technical knowledge to set up...

Bambi234

Cheers for the responses.

Yep i can get the mac addy for the various pc's and will look at wol cmd im sort of tech minded if it all all goes pear shaped i always have Format C:\