[K12OSN] WOL for thin clients

[Petre Scheie]

Petre Scheie wrote:
> 
> 
> Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>> On 1/25/07, Barry Cisna <brcisna at eazylivin.net> wrote:
>>> Hi Petre,
>>>
>>> If you have FC5 or FC6 on your server just do, as root:
>>>
>>> ether-wake <mac address>
>>>
>>> on a client you have wol enabled on.
>>> put a -D in there for debugging.
>>> It'll wake 'em right up!
>>> I cant figure out how to " broadcast" to all clients on the 
>>> LAN,though:(..
>>
>> -manually turn on all clients (no need to login)
>> -run fl-tt 0.41 from the top menu File->Write_MAC_Addresses
>> -All your MAC addresses shouldl now be in
>> /etc/fl_teachertool/fl_teachertool.maclist
>> -run the python script below (or in a cron job) Don't forget to make
>> it executable (chmod +x)
>> (Note: I have not tried this script, please test it first !!!!)
>> (put the full path to ether-wake, I don't know where it is)
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/python
>> import os
>>
>> macfile=file('/etc/fl_teachertool/fl_teachertool.maclist','r')
>> for x in macfile:
>>   os.system("ether-wake "+x)
>> macfile.close
>>
> That certainly makes gathering the MAC addresses easier.  But, as 
> mentioned, my problem is that the clients are not responding to the 
> magic sequence being sent to the.
> 
> BTW, Robert, in fl_tt under File, I see a Display_MAC_Addresses option, 
> but selecting it doesn't seem to do anything; should it?
> 
Never mind: I just noticed it displays a client's MAC address on the client.  I was just 
looking at the server console.  Duh.