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How to wake up other computer in Homegroup
I have two win 7 machines configured in my Homegroup on a Home wireless network. One is a netbook connected wirelessly to my router, and my main desktop us plugged directly into the router. They work fine when they are both awake, but neither of them seems to be able to wake each other up once they go to sleep. Wake on LAN is enabled on both of them using magic packet only. I want to avoid disabling magic packet so my main machine doesn't keep waking up all the time.
I also verified HomeGroupListener and HomeGroupProvider services are running. Is this likely my router blocking something and preventing them from waking each other up, or is there something else I need to configure? Very frustrating b/c I often need to hit files on my main desktop from my netbook pc downstairs. My understanding is that if WOL is enabled, computers in the homegroup should wake each other up when trying to access files on the other machine. I really want to get it to work and not have to mess around with tools or command line to manually wake them up. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.