Wake Mac Mini with MacBook

I have a Mac Mini G4 (leopard) and a Macbook (snow leopard) on my Time Capsule network. Is it possible to wake my Mini from sleep mode on my MacBook? When it is in Sleep mode, the Mini doesn't shoe in Finder.

Use a program such as WakeOnLan to send the Mac mini a magic packet. It needs to be plugged into the base station through Ethernet; the signal will be ignored if it comes in wirelessly. It also needs to be enabled in the Energy Saver pane of System Preferences.
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The Mac Mini comes with Snow Leopard preinstalled.
Leopard and Snow Leopard can communicate with each other just fine.
The only thing to note, is you can't install Leopard on the Mac Mini to run applications that won't run on Snow Leopard. You can make a screen sharing in iChat between the two machines, or a VNC connection to be able to peer in on the MacBook's Leopard, but the processing will still be done on the MacBook.
You don't need to upgrade the MacBook to Leopard, unless there is some hardware that is required by an application that is found on the MacBook, but not on the Mac Mini, and the software in question requires Snow Leopard to run. In that event upgrade the MacBook to Snow Leopard with these precautions in mind*:
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html
Also you can't use the Mac Mini's prebundled Snow Leopard discs on the MacBook to install Snow Leopard. You must buy Snow Leopard retail separately.
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You can connect them to each other through FireWire I believe, if that's what you mean. Otherwise I have no idea what you're talking about, more details wouldn't exactly hurt.

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Both of your devices have WiFi built in. Here is Apple Support's solution:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25616?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

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HI All,
I was going to purchase the mac mini that was geared up to work best with OSX server however that option is now no longer available and the mac mini's have downgraded slightly in terms of quadcore processors and 2tb harddrives.
We run a small design studio, file sharing is becoming a large hinderance on workflow and I thought OSX server sounded like a good solution for someone with little knowledge of the area. We have four imacs, and three macbooks. Our team is growing fairly quick and that number should double next year.
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You will get gigabit network speeds and since it's Thunderbolt 2 the mac mini will have no problem to serve those files across the network.
Make sure you get external storage with a decent RAID setup like a Promise Pegasus for instance, and invest in a good back-up solution.
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So I have had a Time Machine wifi loop at the house for approx. 6 years. I run two Macbooks, 2 iPhones, 2 iTouch and a Samsung Smart Blueray on the loop.
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Have a go .. I recently setup a TC to help a guy run his Roku.. and this setup worked well.. I have no idea if it can work in your case.
Lets say the IP you get is 192.168.2.1-10 .. doesn't matter what it really is. And the adsl modem is 192.168.2.254
(Assuming they are private addresses.. if they are public IP you can just use the DHCP and NAT. )
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Now you set the IP of the TC manually.. This address might need to be in the dhcp range of the modem to work. You can set the DNS to same IP as the router address.. ie home address of the modem. Or you can use another DNS.. whatever you like.
Then set DHCP for clients that will join.. this can then expand the scope of addresses..
It worked without a NAT error.. although I am not sure exactly how.. on paper it should not be able to work but did.. have a go.. otherwise there is perhaps another way.. but it is complicated.
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Hi.
I have my new mac mini with Maverick that does not go to deep sleep even if i press power button or menu Apple-Sleep mode. He goes only to something like stand-by (power lid is on; after i turn off and then turn on the power he does not wake up just starting). I tried "sudo pmset -a hibernatemode X", tried mode 0,1,3, and even 25. nothing helps. he goes to deep sleep (when all data on HDD) only first time after i change hibernatemode couple times and force it to sleep. Today i even tried to force it to sleep (menu Apple-Sleep mode) and NOT turn off the power for whole night, in the morning he is in this "stand-by" mode anyway.
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About one month ago my Mac Mini began having problems when I boot up. The computer would freeze on the opening page where I put in my password. My wireless keyboard and trackpad would not work. This would be interminent at first but progressively got worse.
I spent hours on phone tech support. Finally realizing that would not help I drove the 100 mile round trip to the local Apple store for a Genius bar appointment.
The first appointment (there have been 5 - meaning 500 miles) resulted in them doing a clean install of Lion. I took the computer back to the office and guess what, the same problem.
I drove back to the Apple store, the Genius did some more work and proclaimed it fixed. It was, for about 3 days when everything started again.
More time now on tech support. One more trip to the Apple store.
This time they kept the Mac Mini for about 4 days are replaced the logic/mother board.
I got it back to the office on Thursday. Everthing works great.
Until today. I boot the computer, it gets to the screen that has the apple on it - then nothing.
I manually power it down and reboot. Same thing.
I've set up ANOTHER appointment at the Genius bar tomorrow.
My question: can I demand that they replace this machine. Between work and home I have 2 Mac Mini's, a Macbook Pro, a Macbook Air and 2 iPhones. I've never had this type of problem. I'm really tired of this.
I purchased this in February so it is in warranty.
Thanks

rwgleaves wrote:
I took it to the Apple store Genius bar today - my 5th trip - and they did just what I'd hoped. They replaced the Mac Mini with a brand new machine.
This is why I buy Mac/Apple!
Excellent new, sorry you had so much trouble on the way. And yes, Apple Stores are awesome!

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Whew, this is incredible!?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7029
Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?
How much RAM & free Disk space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.
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Well, the big drawback on the Minis is Intel integrated Graphics.
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as far as I can see, I have resolved it...
Just so I didn't write over my functioning disk in the Mac mini, I took it out and put a spare one in. (Would have saved me going back to the Apple store to get it re-imaged if it did fail.)
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I'm quite surprised Apple has done this.
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