Microsoft KB Archive/227674

= Computer Does Not Wake on LAN If Server Service Is Not Running =

Article ID: 227674

Article Last Modified on 10/30/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

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This article was previously published under Q227674



SYMPTOMS
A computer with Wake On LAN (WOL) capabilities does not wake up for a NetBIOS over TCP/IP broadcast (NBT BCASTS) if the Server service (or the File and Printer Sharing component) is not running.



CAUSE
Because the computer is not providing file sharing services, it is unnecessary for it to wake up for file sharing-related requests. The affected functions are NET VIEW, NET USE, and NBTSTAT.

Remote name registration queries to a computer without VSERVER installed do not wake the computer. Although NBTSTAT is not necessarily fully server service-related, the registration of the wake up pattern is. Therefore, NBTSTAT is also cut off. NBTSTAT might be able to succeed if ARP is used to gain the computer's hardware address or by using the "proposed" directed packet wake.



STATUS
This behavior is by design.

Keywords: kbenv kbnetwork kbprb KB227674

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