Screen Sharing and Wake from Sleep

Hi,
I'd like to know if there's any way a Screen Sharing request from a remote vnc client can wake a Leopard machine from sleep. I've opened the vnc port on firewall, tested screen sharing while its awake... all good. When the target machine is asleep though it doesn't see the request as "Wake for Ethernet Administrator Access" I guess ?
Has anybody found a way to do this? I spoke to Apple support but they suggested I try Discussions.
Cheers.

None of the file sharing or screen sharing apps actually send the WOL packet. You can have launchd watch the screen sharing app and then send the WOL signal when you use it. There will be a slight delay but it does work. You need to download and install wol as it does not ship with osx. You will also probably want to get "lingon" so you can set up launchd easily.
Commentary: I find it ridicules that this stuff isn't already built into the apps. Electric costs money and using it unnecessarily is a waste. Yet not one of the apps or tools designed to work over ethernet with another computer sends the wol command. Its like the developers expect you to have your computer on 24/7.

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