Wake On Lan

[SJohnson4611]

Does anyone know of a shareware title that can provide Wake On Lan for multiple PCs? I need it for a school lab setting.

Scott

 

[kmcferrin]

If your PC supports it in the BIOS, and the NIC supports it, then I think that all you have to do is hit the NIC with traffic and it will wake up. Am I wrong?

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[SJohnson4611]

My lab teachers want to be able to shut all PCs off and or turn on from the teacher PC.

 

[tf1]

You need shutdown.exe which is part of Windows Server but is not installed by default. This will remotely shutdown or startup remote computers.


Regards: Terry

 

[SJohnson4611]

They need to be able to shutdown or boot about 30 PCs at a time.

 

[tf1]

You can do the whole shebang. Just need to write a script that includes all the computer names.

I believe there is a KnowledgeBase article explaining shutdown.exe. I've not done it myself but I have seen it used to do this requirement.

Terry

Regards: Terry

 

[BadBigBen]

Wake on Lan - is easy, as it is covered in almost any BIOS today...

and Shutdown.exe and scripting to shut them down should work a charm...

further info:

thread329-1315077



Ben
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[CecilXavier]

What operation system is on each machine? You could try PStools.

 

[SJohnson4611]

They all have XP Pro