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Jonathan216 Author

Level 1

10 points

Can't wake Lion over wifi (or ethernet) using iPad and home sharing.

I've upgraded to Lion and everything's fine apart from one problem: using my iPad to access home shared iTunes content on my mac no longer works when my mac is asleep.

That's a change in behaviour from Snow Leopard; I used to be able to sleep my mac and then wake it over wifi using either my iPad or iPhone to access all of my home shared libraries. The mac screen used to light up for ten seconds and then go dark again, but it served me the files.

Lion seems to go into a deeper sleep which it can't be woken from. If I attempt to wake my mac from my iPad within about ten minutes of putting my mac to sleep then home sharing seems to work and lets me use the home share libraries, but if I leave it any longer than that then the mac seems to fall into a coma and can't be woken. The weird thing is that I still see a "shared library" folder on my iPad, but when I click on it nothing happens. I think my Time Capsule is listening for wifi access and issuing the magic packet to the mac, but the mac just ain't listening.

I'm using a Time Capsule in bridge mode from an ADSL modem and I've accepted a TC firmware update last week and I'm on lion 10.7.3. I've tried using Ethernet to connect the mac to the TC (and temporarily disabled the wifi connection) but that still doesn't work. Also, note I'm NOT suffering from the problem that 10.7.3 seems to be giving a few other people - my mac reconnects to my wifi just fine when I wake it up manually. For the record, This was an upgrade, so there's still a tick in "wake on network" in power settings and home sharing on iTunes is still configured the same as it was before.

Does anyone have any suggestions about how I can get home sharing to work when my Lion mac is asleep please?

Jon

iMac 27" i5-760, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Feb 12, 2012 1:27 AM

227 replies

GeorgeQ

Level 1

0 points

Sep 28, 2012 9:09 AM in response to Tony T1

I tried downgrading to 7.6. It did not work for me.

jsmd80

Level 1

0 points

Oct 10, 2012 1:06 AM in response to Jonathan216

Hi,

I tried every fix suggested in this thread. Did not work.

I filed a bug report to Apple AGAIN. I suggest everyone in this thread does the same.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

regards

Oct 21, 2012 4:57 PM in response to Jonathan216

Hi,

I've got the same won't wake from sleep issues on a MacBook Pro on 10.7.5 with an iphone and Remote.

Going back a few pages, I've also got a '0' where there should be a '1' in the plist, but I can't get the plist to save when I correct it. It automatically saves as a new file elsewhere in documents but won't just save the change to the existing plist. Does anyone know how to do this?

Nov 6, 2012 7:17 AM in response to Tony T1

Hello Tony T1,

Downgrading from 7.6.1 to 7.6 solved the issue for you? Did you make tests? Like leaving your iMac asleep for more than 24hours and check if it's still connected to the network...

Let me know, regards.

Tony T1

Level 6

10,238 points

Nov 6, 2012 10:08 AM in response to loïcfernandezcastrillon

loïcfernandezcastrillon wrote:

Hello Tony T1,

Downgrading from 7.6.1 to 7.6 solved the issue for you? Did you make tests? Like leaving your iMac asleep for more than 24hours and check if it's still connected to the network...

Let me know, regards.

Yes, been working fine for 30+ days now.

Nov 6, 2012 10:13 AM in response to Tony T1

Yes, been working fine for 30+ days now.

I'll try to do that, maybe it will solve the trouble I have with Apple TV too. When the Apple TV goes to sleep, I don't know why, but a moment after that, sometimes my Time Capsule get the same IP as Apple TV. And it shows me that Apple TV and Time Capsule were disconnected from my network for a little while.

Your iMac is connected with WiFi or Ethernet?

Tony T1

Level 6

10,238 points

Nov 6, 2012 10:31 AM in response to loïcfernandezcastrillon

loïcfernandezcastrillon wrote:

Your iMac is connected with WiFi or Ethernet?

Ethernet (Mac mini <==> AirPortExtreme)

Nov 6, 2012 10:35 AM in response to Tony T1

The trouble with 7.6 is that I cannot access my Time Capsule over the internet with iCloud. So it's a problem for me...

I have to wait for the next AirPort Update, and I hope they will solve the issue...

Dec 5, 2012 2:45 PM in response to Tony T1

Hello everyone, finally, I say finally because I've tried and tried many many stuff to fix this **** boring issue. And after many tests on different iMacs, I finally have one solution that should work for all of you.

I'll tell you what I did on my iMac and on my friend's iMac, and now they both wake up when we use a remote app like team viewer/screens... I made some tests, even after 12 or 24 hours of sleep, the iMac still wakes up when I use my VNC app from my iPhone or "Back to my Mac" from my MacBook Pro.

If you want to try :

1. Repair disc permissions, to make sure everything's fine on your Mac. If you see that some permissions have been repaired, launch another repair until the list of permissions is empty.

2. Open terminal paste that and hit enter: sudo periodic daily weekly monthly,

It will ask for your password, type it. Then paste and hit enter: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache.

3. Turn off your Mac.

4. Start your Mac while holding the left shift key until you see a progress bar, let the Mac start, wait for 3 or 5 min. Then turn it off.

5. When your start it, reset the PRAM.

6. You're good!

I made that on both iMacs and now they work like a charm. I guess the 2 commands in terminal solved the issue, because I made the other steps for weeks without success before.

Hope it will work for you.

Dec 6, 2012 6:40 AM in response to loïcfernandezcastrillon

Thanks loïcfernandezcastrillon, I did all this last night so just waiting now. Will let you know if this fixes the problem on my MacPro

Dec 7, 2012 11:55 AM in response to loïcfernandezcastrillon

Ok this doesn't work for me, I've tried it twice now. Each time leaving 12 hours in between. Still not seeing my MacPro on the network. Have to resort back to using schedules to wake my mac. Never mind, thanks though.

Dec 8, 2012 9:22 AM in response to IIIMOODIII

It is still working fine for me, the only moments I wasn't able to reach the iMac when I wasn't home were because my router change its IP sometimes, so I've installed the "Screens" app on my iMac that retrieves the IP, sometimes it can take 15min, so it was the only moments I wasn't able to access it.

Otherwise, when I'm home on WiFi, no trouble at all!

Before I was using Schedules too, but in the system preferences, there is only one Time you can set, for example 9.00am, how to you Schedules more timer?

MirkoW

Level 1

4 points

Dec 8, 2012 11:20 AM in response to loïcfernandezcastrillon

Doesn't work for me.

Let's face it, apple broke it with an update and never get it running again.

I have a Ticket open since Feb!

Fallnummer: 291396078

Noch ausstehender Fall

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3774?viewlocale=en_US since 10.7.3 this doesn't work for longer than 2 hours

Geöffnet: Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2012

I've sent them 4 times diagnotic files. I've set up a new clean system because they told me to do. Nothing worked.

Apple came never back to me with this case. I've wrote 5 mails. No reply.

Thanks Apple!

namuh

Level 1

0 points

Dec 10, 2012 7:47 PM in response to MirkoW

Still works fine for me and has for a long time. Currently running OSX V 10.8.2. using a cheap cisco router with DDWRT. No problems after making the changes stated earlier in this thread.

Good luck.

Dec 11, 2012 12:06 AM in response to namuh

What changes did you do?

Mine or others?

Can't wake Lion over wifi (or ethernet) using iPad and home sharing.