Comments on: How-To: Expand Wake On Demand Support Under OS X 10.6

By: Ralph

Ralph — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:44:04 +0000

Is there a way to wake up a computer to run a scheduled application?
I am using CCC to do scheduled backups.
I set CCC to backup in the middle of the night, (when everyone including my iMac is sleeping). Because the machine is asleep, the backup does not start until I “wake up” the machine during the day
Is there a way to wake up the iMac in the middle of the night, enter the user password, run the backup, and go back to sleep when done?

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:11:02 +0000

Is there any way to execute the "wake" command from an Applescript? I often send files from my MacBook to my iMac using a Finder Service that I wrote. If my iMac is sleeping though, I have to take a first step of waking it up. It would be great if I could roll the wakeup into my script.

By: Chad von Nau

Chad von Nau — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:02:09 +0000

Uh.. scratch what I just said. It does work. I just was forwarding port 80 to my wireless IP instead of my wired IP.

By: Chad von Nau

Chad von Nau — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:03:10 +0000

I don’t know if this is true exactly. As far as Apple’s documentation http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3774 goes, Bonjour Sleep Proxy (Wake on Demand) doesn’t work over WAN without Back to My Mac. It’s not working for me anyway, so I’ve resorted to forwarding UDP port 9 to my machine and using the web wake-on-lan tool at http://rshut.com I have an Airport Extreme Base Station.

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By: David Page

David Page — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:38:18 +0000

DNS also has the ability to broadcast bonjour services and the wide area bonjour feature of DNS in server 10.6 may help. Bonjour is multicast DNS and its the same system that printers use to broadcast their name on a network. The website afp548.com has some info on wide area bonjour

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:21:46 +0000

yes, that seems to work. the important thing is to restart the computer, not just log out, for it to take affect.
thanks for writing this article!

By: Andrew Bednarz

Andrew Bednarz — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:01:38 +0000

Scott, that should do the trick. The thing to remember is that you can run the command in terminal and use Bonjour Browser to check that its registered as you expect.