[K12OSN] WOL for thin clients

[Robert Arkiletian]

On 1/26/07, Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net> 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?

If the clients are logged in it pops up a message with the mac of the machine.

>
> Petre
>
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Robert Arkiletian
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