Wake up a PC for remote printing

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I would like to allow an xp pc that has a shared printer attached to
it via usb to hibernate and then wake up when remote print is sent to
it.

The bios have been set to allow "wake on lan" and the network card in
properties has the "allow this device to wake the computer" checked
but when I send print to it nothing happens. If I manually wake the
compuer the print comes out fine. So how did I trigger the xp pc to
wake up? The act of remote printing is not doing it.
 
I would like to allow an xp pc that has a shared printer attached to
it via usb to hibernate and then wake up when remote print is sent to
it.

The bios have been set to allow "wake on lan" and the network card in
properties has the "allow this device to wake the computer" checked
but when I send print to it nothing happens. If I manually wake the
compuer the print comes out fine. So how did I trigger the xp pc to
wake up? The act of remote printing is not doing it.
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For WOL help see this page...

http://winhlp.com/?q=node/57

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For WOL help see this page...

http://winhlp.com/?q=node/57
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The utility is great if you want to manually wake the a pc remotely.

I'm looking to wake a pc remotely as part of a print request sent to
it.

i.e. end user hits print and behind the scenes something occurs to
wake the remote pc that has the printer connected to it.
 
Hi
It is a common mistake to confuse states like Wake On LAN (WOL),
Hibernation, and relate to them with their Language value rather than
technological fact.

WOL means that the computer is totally Off, by sending a special "Magic"
packet to the network the computer starts and Boots.
(http://www.ezlan.net/WOL.html ).

Hibernation means that the computer saves a file with an "Image of the RAM
status, and shut Off. When the computer is switched On after the hardware
boot the file is loaded into memory and thus shorten the Boot process.

If the computer is Off its printer is Not available, and an attempt to print
from an other computer would result with error.

So WOL and Hibernation can not be used when Printing over the network has to
be ready for use.

What you want is the computer with the printer to stay On and should "lap"
into Standby when not used (Standby is Not WOL nor it is Hibernation).

Make sure that the computer's standby is configured to react to LAN traffic
and the printer traffic will take it out of standby and would print.
In some computers there is a BIOS entry that has to be switched to On to
indicate reaction to allow Network traffic.

In addition look into the OS' power saving setting as well as any prosperity
standby utility (if any) and make sure that they are switching off the
network capacity of the computer. Make sure that the Network card of the
computer with the printer is not set to use the power saving. I.e the
computer can go to Standby but the network card has to stay On (
http://www.ezlan.net/example/powersave.jpg ).
Jack (MVP-Networking).
 
I've had the pc coming out of standby to print for sometime. The
printer in question is not used much and feeling environmental I
thought surely some brainac has figured out a way to bring a pc out of
hibernation to print in an automated manner. Send the magic packet in
an automated manner preceeding a print job.
 
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