WOL (wake-on-LAN) through Time Capsule. Improvement request

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WOL (wake-on-LAN) through Time Capsule. Improvement request

My Mac at home goes to sleep after several minutes of inactivity, and becomes inaccesible from Internet.

However, the Time Capsule is always ON and accesible from Internet. It's even configurable from Internet using AirPort Utility (I activated Allow setup over WAN)

It will be great to be able to tell Time Capsule to send a WOL signal to the devices at home. The WOL signal will wake up my home computer and it will be accesible thanks to iCloud and Back-to-my-mac.

WOL signals do not travel well through Internet, so it will be easier to make the Time Capsule send those signals within the local network.

Posted on Dec 12, 2012 4:34 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 12, 2012 12:18 PM in response to Rafael Palacios

Apple, being apple have a different system.. Wake on Demand.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3774

This should work ok.

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Answer 2

Dec 20, 2012 1:56 PM in response to LaPastenague

You are right!

One must activate Back-to-my-mac in two places:

1-Apple --> System Preferences --> iCloud, then check Back to My Mac

2-Apple --> System Preferences --> Sharing, then check the services that you want to share: screen sharing, File sharing, and Remote Login (SSH), for example.

After activating Back to My Mac in iCloud (that I didn't have previously) I needed to restart.

RAFAEL

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