[K12OSN] WOL for thin clients

Petre Scheie petre at maltzen.net
Thu Jan 25 14:26:59 UTC 2007


I've been working on this lately with a bunch of Dell laptop clients; so far I've not 
had any success.  I've found several scripts and toolkits for sending WOL messages to 
the clients, but I haven't actually been able to get the clients to wake up yet.  I'll 
post any successes.

Petre

Barry Cisna wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
>   I'm guessing this has been asked. Has anyone tried making a package for
> k12ltsp to make all k12ltsp clients ( providing they have pxe and wake
> on lan), boot from say a " master" aka: server PC. Something along the
> same lines as Deep Freeze in Windows? You simply have your clients
> listed in a "pool" start your master PC..aka: server and choose a client
> or all of the clients to bootup. Thus not having to walk around and
> power on/off all pc's. I know the power off option is avavilable,if
> enabled.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> Thanks,
> Barry Cisna
> westcentral school
> 
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