Headless Mac Mini question
Posted by: Keith L on 20 January 2010
If a headless Mac Mini is set to sleep, I assume Wake on Lan is not possible from the iTouch via Wi-Fi.
Am I right in saying the Apple Infra Red remote will wake a sleeping Mac Mini?
Do users leave their Mac Minis on permanently and put the hard disc to sleep when inactive?
Are the above assumptions correct?
Thanks in advance,
Keith
Am I right in saying the Apple Infra Red remote will wake a sleeping Mac Mini?
Do users leave their Mac Minis on permanently and put the hard disc to sleep when inactive?
Are the above assumptions correct?
Thanks in advance,
Keith
Posted on: 20 January 2010 by 0rangutan
Is the mini wired or wireless? Not quite clear from your post whether you mean that the iPod Touch or mini are wireless.
If the mini is wired you can use iWol or similar iPod apps to wake the mini. If it is wireless then I am less sure.
That said, you are safe to leave the mini on all the time. The power draw is minimal (certainly lower than any Naim kit!) and the OS stable enough to keep on for months. I run my iMac this way without problems.
You could also use the Energy Saver preferences to schedule times for the mini to sleep and wake, so that it is off for most of the night, but back on when you need it.
John
If the mini is wired you can use iWol or similar iPod apps to wake the mini. If it is wireless then I am less sure.
That said, you are safe to leave the mini on all the time. The power draw is minimal (certainly lower than any Naim kit!) and the OS stable enough to keep on for months. I run my iMac this way without problems.
You could also use the Energy Saver preferences to schedule times for the mini to sleep and wake, so that it is off for most of the night, but back on when you need it.
John
Posted on: 20 January 2010 by Keith L
Thanks for the reply John.
The mini will be wireless. It will not be connected to a router by an ethenet cable. I think I read that most users leave their minis' CPUs on permanently and allow the hard disc to sleep.
Keith
The mini will be wireless. It will not be connected to a router by an ethenet cable. I think I read that most users leave their minis' CPUs on permanently and allow the hard disc to sleep.
Keith
Posted on: 20 January 2010 by james n
The mini stays on permanently. WOL works but i had occasional issues with it waking and not seeing the NAS and iTunes reverting to its default music location.
James
James
Posted on: 20 January 2010 by garyi
If you are just setting the mini to sleep the harddrive then it does not need wake on lan to wake the drive it will do this as soon as you try and do something with the mini
Posted on: 20 January 2010 by winkyincanada
The infra-red remote will wake a sleeping mini. I use screen sharing and the laptop won't wake it up. But I just click the infra-red remote once, the machine wakes, am I am good to go. Oh, mine is wireless to the LAN.
Posted on: 20 January 2010 by Keith L
quote:I use screen sharing and the laptop won't wake it up
Apple screen sharing is the same as the Remote App for the iTouch/iPhone.
Thanks for confirming my assumptions.
Keith
Posted on: 20 January 2010 by garyi
You could try a little programme called wakeup!
Does the job for me as it takes the MAC address of you computer as a means for waking. God knows how it works but it does.
Does the job for me as it takes the MAC address of you computer as a means for waking. God knows how it works but it does.
Posted on: 20 January 2010 by winkyincanada
quote:Originally posted by AllenB:
The remote that comes with all Minis will always wake it, whatever it's state or vintage. But I'm pretty sure the latest Minis will wake on lan from (full) sleep, whether it's a screen sharing connection or a Touch / iPhone trying to communicate with it, and that's wired or wireless connection to the network. The older Minis can only do the same with wired, not wireless, but must be running SL.
On my Mini, there is a 'wake for network access' setting (in 'Energy Saver') in System Preferences that has to be ticked (in Snow Leopard). My computer sleeps after 3 hours and I have the setting for putting hard disks to sleep ticked as well. Never have to use the infra red remote, and I can access it via screen sharing or Touch remote from a state of slumber.
Thanks. I'll check my settings and see if I can get it to wake via screen sharing alone.
Cheers,
Winky
Posted on: 20 January 2010 by garyi
It won't.
The mac needs to be awake in order to be available in the finder in order to be clicked in order to be screen shared.
There are lots of wake on LAN softwares on macupdate, dig one out.
The mac needs to be awake in order to be available in the finder in order to be clicked in order to be screen shared.
There are lots of wake on LAN softwares on macupdate, dig one out.
Posted on: 20 January 2010 by garyi
I stand corrected then! I'll try it out, it never used to work for me.
Posted on: 21 January 2010 by badlyread
I can confirm that AllenB is correct. I wake my sleeping Mac Mini (new spec) by using Screen Sharing or the infra red remote. Music is on an external 500Gb G-Drive Mini (self-powered via FireWire) and a standard 500Gb G-Drive for back up.
The Mac Mini is fantastic as are the external drives. The Mini G-Drive is so quiet. Don't regret losing the CDP at all. A Logitech Transporter does the business.
Neil
The Mac Mini is fantastic as are the external drives. The Mini G-Drive is so quiet. Don't regret losing the CDP at all. A Logitech Transporter does the business.
Neil
Posted on: 21 January 2010 by garyi
Nope does not work for me. I set the imac to wake for network access in energy saver. Once it goes to sleep its no longer visible so cannot be woken from the finder.
PLease can someone confirm how they are achieving this and if you are using snow leopard through out?
PLease can someone confirm how they are achieving this and if you are using snow leopard through out?
Posted on: 21 January 2010 by garyi
I guess it does not work with any wireless, I am trying to wake a wired imac from a wireless macbook.
I'll stick with WakeUp! That seems to work.
I'll stick with WakeUp! That seems to work.