[Casper Crane]

I am loving Remote Desktop Connection, since it has freed me from having to touch (yuck) the windows laptop I need for testing and screenshots.

But here's my dilemna. My cat really likes to sit on the keyboard and I wouldn't mind so much but it's a company machine. So I'd like to close the laptop, and access it from my Mac with it closed.

How do I wake up the thing without opening it?

I saw another post about Wake Over LAN stuff, and I'm willing to download an application if needs be, but can someone give me the straight story?

Thanks.

[DominikHoffmann]

Broadband Reports has a tool for waking a sleeping computer that has a NIC supporting "wake-on-lan."

Dominik Hoffmann

[Casper Crane]

thanks for the idea, but it doesn't work because i'm trying to wake a compuer on my local network, and this packet is sent over the internet. i don't want to get into prot mapping...

but i figured out that i'm just dumb. one needs only spend several hours poking around in windows to find the desired preference!

in power options, i unchecked the hibernate feature, and then found that there is a preference for what to do when i close the lid, which i set to do nothing. now i can put the win laptop under my desk and use it when i want to on my mac.

yay!