VNC to MAC but MAC is sleeping

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Mark Worsnop picture Mark Worsnop · May 17, 2011 · Viewed 7.5k times · Source

I assume my my MAC is sleeping if I try and connect with VNC is hangs. If I happen to be at the MAC console I can move the mouse or keyboard and then the VNC works. Is there a way to trigger a wake up or disable sleeping from the console?

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Raoul picture Raoul · May 17, 2011

Sounds like you need to enable WOL (Wakeup On Lan) in OSX, see the following for a detailed explanation of what's involved and how to do it.

http://lifehacker.com/348197/access-your-computer-anytime-and-save-energy-with-wake+on+lan

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