How to Wake on LAN

[roland]

How do I get the school PC's to "Wake on LAN"

 

for interest I use the following cmd script to shutdown pc's each night

 

for /f %%i in (list-laba.txt) do \\gc\netlogon\wait 1 && start shutdown -s -f -t 60 /m \\%%i

 

However I feel there is probably a more elegant way to "Wake on Lan" perhaps even shutdown on Lan?

[Gatt]

I use a combination of LanView3 and SpecOps GPUpdate

 

Both free

[apeo]

Probably not the best way but i use a Wake-On-Lan utility to send the magic packets and a vbscript to call the utility for each computer.

[CyberNerd]

list of tools here:

http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/mini-howto/wol-mini-howto-3.html

[contink]

[n00b] Remind me, I need to set WOL in the BIOS don't I? [/n00b]

 

I've completely forgotten... :oops:

[ZeroHour]

Yes but if your using hibernate on the PC's you need to check that wake for that is setup correctly in windows as well or hibernated machines may not wake regardless.

[projector1]

I use a combination of LanView3 and SpecOps GPUpdate

 

Both free

 

cannot give enough credit to MST for lanview, for waking up and shutting down pc's.

 

Having enabled wake on lan in the bios of our pcs this is great for doing work remotely from home! and from our newly kitted tech office!

[Enzomatrx]

I user iTALC for waking up, shutting down, rebooting, etc. of our PCs. Just have to get a list of MAC addresses from the computers and put them in the config box for that box in iTALC, then I can just wake them up from anywhere.

 

LanView3 looks good too, I had iTALC rolled out from a custom-compiled source before noticing LV3. I don't think we'll switch though, as iTALC is functioning very well now that school's back running.

 

the only problem I have with iTALC (and it's a Windows Server thing) is duplicate entires in the forward lookup zones for DHCP addresses. It's usually fine when every computer is running daily, but we're now setting up 20 tablets, and since we only image and set up 7 at a time, sometimes there's a gap between setups and a newer one gets an older one's IP. obviously, we expect this to be fixed when we have all 20 logging on at once. I could Static them, but really the only thing affected by it is iTALC, and I'm the only one in the building using it.

 

sorry for the side-rant. WOL is fun.

[ZeroHour]

Incase you have it, Dameware can do this too.

[roland]

I use a combination of LanView3 and SpecOps GPUpdate

 

Both free

 

Craig, I want to thank you for telling me about SpecOps - I am rebooting 161 pc's with SpecOps GPUpdate right now, it is a wonderfully useful product.

 

- Thanks Roland.

 

ps. Does any one know how I can easily tell which users / computers are logged in to the Domain or are switched on?

[Gatt]

Lanview can do this - though our network doesn't seem to like as sometimes users show as being logged on even if they arent..

[K.C.Leblanc]

I used angry IP scanner to harvest a list of mac addresses, I then used a batch file which calls wol.exe to wake up different IT rooms. Bit basic, but works very well.

[FN-GM]

With Netsupport you can select the machines you want to switch on then press power on.

[AnnDroyd]

A simple utility "wol.exe" does the trick. Just type the command wol.exe followed by the mac address of the computer you wish to wake.

[Oakie]

I use a combination of LanView3 and SpecOps GPUpdate

 

Both free

 

Craig, I want to thank you for telling me about SpecOps - I am rebooting 161 pc's with SpecOps GPUpdate right now, it is a wonderfully useful product.

 

- Thanks Roland.

 

ps. Does any one know how I can easily tell which users / computers are logged in to the Domain or are switched on?

 

 

Yes, the LanView3 product tells you EXACTLY which machines are alive and who is logged on. Lanview3 excels at remote wake, logoff, reboot and shutdown. It's free. You must try it.

[voodoo_doll]

I currently use one just for waking up specific computers. It's a program called mc-wol. you put it in the System32 folder of your computer, and then run it in DOS.

 

I've written a script that does this for me at 7am every morning (set in the schedualer on a server, so i know it'll be on)

 

The only down side is that it works off MAC addresses, so you need to get the mac addy and make your script off that.

 

The script is easy to make, it's just:

 

MC-WOL [MAC Address]

 

one line per PC

 

If you want to give it a go, you can download it from here:

 

http://www.savagenomads.net/2007/12/...tility_mc-wol/

[alfatec]

VNC Manager 2.5 standard. Costs about £25. This will completely scan all your networks. You set up your folders i.e. classroom 1, classroom 2 etc.

All you do then is if you want to Wake On Lan, right click on the classroom folder and click 'Send Wake On Lan command' and all you computers in the classroom switch on. This piece of software will also give you remote control over all your computers in the school. Just install the free version of VNC 4.0 onto your computers. You can then just right click on the classroom 1 folder and click show thumbnails and all computers in that room will be displayed on your desktop running live. Great way to monitor classroom usage. You can the double click any computer and have direct control over them. We also use a script that allows us to log on all computers in a classroom as any user from a command prompt. So for instance if I need to do a job in a classroom the other side of the school which has 32 computers in, I just Wake on Lan the classroom, send the script to log on all computers as administrator and then display thumbnails of that classroom and I have direct control over 32 computers and I have not left my seat.

[6Foot2]

http://www.savagenomads.net/2007/12/...tility_mc-wol/

 

"Nothing Found" at that URL.

 

This one offers a download:

 

Link: Free utility: MC-WOL | Savage Nomads