Wake On Lan not working
I have enabled wake on lan. Ihave used the defaults. I am using Power on, with the wake-up option. I am using unicast, on port 9. Everything else is default. I am basically trying to wake 2 machines, but am having no success. When setting a Mandatory assignment, with Wake On Lan enabled, I get nothing. Troubleshooting steps. I have can use a third party tool to wake the machines from my server. The tool uses unicast to wake the machine, so I am using its last IP and Mac address. The Wolcmgr.log and wolmgr.log files do not show much. Hardware inventory has been ran. I am running R2 on a server 2008 machine. What tools do you guys recommend using, to verify that the wake up packets, used by my Mandatory assignment, actually leaves my server?
December 23rd, 2008 12:41am

I have never tried, but you can try to see if you can see the packets with Network Monitor. John DeVito
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December 23rd, 2008 4:51am

We have had issues with this in the past, especially if sms was not installed on the domain controller i thought it was supposed to fixed in R2i will see if i can dig up our resolution to the issue
December 29th, 2008 9:39pm

Sorry for the delay. The answer toyour question is yes. Unicast from the server works. I am using solarwinds Wake-on-Lan utility. It needs the MAC and IP of PC to work.
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January 5th, 2009 7:29pm

lotecky said: We have had issues with this in the past, especially if sms was not installed on the domain controller i thought it was supposed to fixed in R2R2 does not fix anything because it's not a service pack (it's just an add-on!). SMS or ConfigMgr do not have to be installed on domain controllers, so that is not the reason for something that does not work as expected!
January 5th, 2009 7:37pm

I have enabled wake on lan. I have used the defaults. I am using Power on, with the wake-up option. I am using unicast, on port 9. Everything else is default. I am basically trying to wake 2 machines, but am having no success. When setting a Mandatory assignment, with Wake On Lan enabled, I get nothing. Troubleshooting steps. I have can use a third party tool to wake the machines from my server. The tool uses unicast to wake the machine, so I am using its last IP and Mac address. The Wolcmgr.log and wolmgr.log files do not show much. Hardware inventory has been ran. I am running R2 on a server 2008 machine. What tools do you guys recommend using, to verify that the wake up packets, used by my Mandatory assignment, actually leaves my server? Hello, everyone, I got exactly the same problem as Triage191 had. Do you have any solutions on this?
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March 15th, 2010 2:13pm

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