/wol-server

A lightweight wake on lan server powered by SSH!

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wol-server

A lightweight wake on lan server powered by SSH!

Steps to get started:

  • Server
    • run apt install wakeonlan
    • place both bash files in the root directory of your server
    • create new users with a mac address as the username, (without any colons or dashes - i.e. "./woluser aabbccddeeff")
    • make sure the ssh port is open in the firewall
    • provide the cmd script to your users with the desired mac address as the username
  • Client
    • enable wake on lan in bios options
    • enable wake from magic packet in windows network adapter configuration

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  • Thanks to this post on Stack Overflow for the sed command.