Wake On Lan

[pancake]

Does anyone know of a FREE way to shut down and start up using WOL for a group of PCs running XP, such as Wake on LAN manager Pro ?

We are a school and have a budget of 0 but would find this util very useful, as we manually switch off at the end of every day at the moment.

Thanks in Advance.

 

[easynoweasy]

In case nobody else answers with a solution, here is a cheap option: at

http://www.rainyclouds.com,

you can schedule the pc's to startup and shutdown. The drawback is, as far as I can tell is that is the only way you can turn on/off the PC.

 

[bcastner]

http://www.broadbandreports.com/faq/9389

 

[jfrantz]

I'm not too sure about shutting down, but for starting up I use a free utility called wol.exe and a batch file. Download wol.exe from

http://www.gammadyne.com/cmdline.htm#wol

Create a text file called "macs.txt" and include a list of MAC addresses for each machine, like:
000f2234e819
000f2234e81a
000f2234e81b


Create a batch file called wake.bat with the following:

@echo off
for /f %%I in (macs.txt) do (
  wol.exe %%I
)

-Jeff

 

[bcastner]

I wanted to emphasize that your current method of shutting down the computer at the end of the day would prevent them from a WOL event succeeding.

Sleep is preferred, Hibernate often proves difficult depending on BIOS issues.

But a complete shutdown state as you described in the original post is not WOL recoverable.