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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

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Jul 14, 2013 3:00 AM in response to Tony T1

Alas, downgrading to 7.6 doesn't work for me. Darkwake=0 doesn't work either.


What I did notice is that restarting my Airport Extreme makes it work for a short period (10 minutes or so). That happened after I installed the latest firmware and also when I downgraded to 7.6. But after this period wireless wake on lan does not work.

Jul 21, 2013 3:55 AM in response to lexvo

I may have found something that works.

My main router is from my internet provider and I have an Airport Extreme to extend my network (bridge mode) and it also is my WiFi access point.

Before, when I put my iMac to sleep via the menu, I couldn't get it to wake on wireless LAN. I also had trouble waking it up if it had slept for over a few hours.

Today I did two things:

1) give my Airport Extreme a fixed IP adress

2) switch off ipv6 on my iMac (in Terminal, not via System preferences)

Low and behold, I can wake up my iMac now from my iPhone and iPad and access the iTunes library. 🙂

Of course, it is to early to say if this is a definite solution (hence the "I may have found) so I will try tomorrow if it still works (after my iMac slept for some hours).

Oct 19, 2013 11:00 AM in response to lexvo

I am assuming it was the AppleTV and Time Capsule updates that finally did the trick, however I can't say for sure if previous updates to other equipment had a part to play in this.


In my case, I made sure all of the following were up to date:


Time Capsule

Apple TV

Mac Mini (OSX)

iTunes

IOS


I did not have the 'darkwake' fix, as in my case it never worked reliably with my collection of equipment.


I'm really pleased Apple got to the bottom of this one, and special thanks to a Senior Tech called Bruce who championed getting this one sorted out.

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

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