[blackbird_1.0]

I selected Look for shared music earlier today, and it worked. Well, I quit iTunes and later restarted it tonight, and my shared music from my G5 doesn't show up now, and the Look option is still checked.

[gorickey]

And everything is set-up right and iTunes is running on the G5 still, correct?

[blackbird_1.0]

Yeah, but the G5 is asleep. Does it have to be fully awake all the time?

BTW, My iBook is on a wifi network via NetGear.

[gorickey]

Originally posted by blackbird_1.0:
Yeah, but the G5 is asleep. Does it have to be fully awake all the time?

I'm not entirely sure; however, I'm assuming if it's asleep and HD's have spun down, that it won't work...

[blackbird_1.0]

I just figured that if was spun down, it'd spin back up when I wanted my music.

Darn, I thought I'd found a way of avoiding filling up my 10 gig iBook hard drive.

Is there a way I can access my files through filesharing over the network from my G5?

Like through the Finder?

[Rand]

Always possible to do what I did before iTunes sharing:

Use Appletalk's FileSharing to connect to your G5 using your ibook, and then drag the songs from the G5's mounted HD into your iBook's iTunes.

This way when you want to play a song, and you double click on it, it will ask you for the password to the G5, but then it will connect and play all on its own. Really not too bad.

If you want the G5 to stay asleep until you connect, make sure that in the Energy Saver control panel that the "Wake from sleep on Network Activity" box is checked.


-I'm thinking about doing this again myself now that iTunes 4.5 doesn't share large libraries well....

[JLL]

Originally posted by Rand:
Always possible to do what I did before iTunes sharing:

Use Appletalk's FileSharing to connect to your G5 using your ibook, and then drag the songs from the G5's mounted HD into your iBook's iTunes.

AFP != AppleTalk

You don't need to turn on AppleTalk for that.

[blackbird_1.0]

So what do I need to do. Just turn on Wake for Network to get my iTunes music?

[zen jihad]

Originally posted by blackbird_1.0:
So what do I need to do. Just turn on Wake for Network to get my iTunes music?

I don't think that will work. There is a program that can wake your Mac over the network, but the name escapes me just now.

[blackbird_1.0]

Any more ideas?

[wataru]

I'm amazed how many people aren't aware of this: When a computer is asleep, it can't do anything. Sleep is exactly the same as "off," except that the contents of the RAM is preserved. If your computer can't do something while it's off (and that's most things) then it can't do it while it's sleeping either.

[blackbird_1.0]

Well, I knew sleep was similar to when its off, I just wanted to know if there's a way to wake it up from a remote computer when I need it.

[zen jihad]

Originally posted by wataru:
I'm amazed how many people aren't aware of this: When a computer is asleep, it can't do anything. Sleep is exactly the same as "off," except that the contents of the RAM is preserved. If your computer can't do something while it's off (and that's most things) then it can't do it while it's sleeping either.

It can wake itself up on a schedule. Also, it can actually boot up too at a set time, via the scheduling way.

[zen jihad]

Originally posted by blackbird_1.0:
Well, I knew sleep was similar to when its off, I just wanted to know if there's a way to wake it up from a remote computer when I need it.

There is a way, but I wish I could remember what the program was called which did it.

What to do is, try the guys over on Ars Technica, they will pretty much sort you out with what you need.

[darkcore]

This is what you want: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7271 or this: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10617

[ratlater]

Originally posted by blackbird_1.0:
Well, I knew sleep was similar to when its off, I just wanted to know if there's a way to wake it up from a remote computer when I need it.

It's fairly easy to create an applescript to wake the computer up when you want it. Just turn on that wake from sleep for network access thing, then search the web for the proper code. Basically the computer will respond to a certain type of data packet and it will wake up. So you could run the applescript from your iBook when you wanted to listen to music.

-matt

[blackbird_1.0]

A very appreciative thanks to all of you. If there are any more ideas, please post them here, but I think I've got what I need now. Thanks.

[kman42]

It's actually "Wake for Ethernet network administrator access"

I don't actually know what that means. If I have 'remote login' turned on and ssh into a sleeping mac with an administrator account will it wake up?

kman

[gorickey]

Originally posted by darkcore:
...or this: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10617

Yeah, WakeUp 1.11 is GREAT...

[blackbird_1.0]

Originally posted by gorickey:
Yeah, WakeUp 1.11 is GREAT...

Is it really, or were you being sarcastic? Just making sure.

[gorickey]

Originally posted by blackbird_1.0:
Is it really, or were you being sarcastic? Just making sure.

I think it's truly good/easy/works...

[ratlater]

Originally posted by kman42:
It's actually "Wake for Ethernet network administrator access"

I don't actually know what that means. If I have 'remote login' turned on and ssh into a sleeping mac with an administrator account will it wake up?

kman

No, I read up about this a while ago. Basically the sleeping computer looks for a specific type of data packet. This packet acts as an alarm clock and will wake the computer up. All in all it's pretty slick.

-matt

[blackbird_1.0]

So, um, I was trying out the recommended programs, and I'm wondering, does Idle mean the computer has wakened up?