Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:44:45 +0000, John Williamson
wrote:

Most, if not all, PCs using ethernet networking can be set to "Wake on
LAN" in the BIOS, so any attempt to contact that machine will wake it
up.

That's not how wake on LAN works (except for the Mac + Airport kit
mentioned previously, which is officially Rather Cunning).

To wake a WOL-enabled machine, you need to send a special "Wake Up!"
packet to it. There's lots of tools to do this, but you need to do
that first before trying to access the machine over the network.

(With the Mac+Airport thing, the Airport pretends to be the sleeping
Mac, and then if it gets a request for the shared facilities sends a
"Wake Up!" signal to the Mac which then handles the request.)

Thanks for the correction. I'd forgotten about that.

One other benefit of using a PC instead of a NAS device is that you gain
a spare computer for lightweight tasks. If you've no room for a monitor
and such, then use a KVM switch or you can log in remotely, once it's
been set up.

--
Tciao for Now!

John.