Batch Wake-On-Lan

[thephantomblu]

Is there any way to implement WOL functionality in batch without the need of third-party software?

[ghostmachine4]

Is there any way to implement WOL functionality in batch without the need of third-party software?

you can do that with a vb script. I personally have not tried it but you can download the code here.

save it as something.vbs , edit the settings to your liking and execute

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c:\> cscript //nologo something.vbs

[thephantomblu]

No, you misunderstood me.

Is there any way you can send WOL packets through batch without third-party software?

[ghostmachine4]

No, you misunderstood me.

Is there any way you can send WOL packets through batch without third-party software?

To send WOL packets programmatically you need the UDP protocol and for that you need to program using a language that support the UDP packet programming. If you really cannot use any other third party software (note, vbscript is installed by default and to me not considered third party), vbscript (or powershell) is your best bet. vbscript doesn't support sockets natively but you can call activex/com control ( Mswinsck.ocx etc ? Please research google for more) . if you have powershell on newer systems, you can make use of .Net libraries System.Net.Sockets API.

[thephantomblu]

To send WOL packets programmatically you need the UDP protocol and for that you need to program using a language that support the UDP packet programming. If you really cannot use any other third party software (note, vbscript is installed by default and to me not considered third party), vbscript (or powershell) is your best bet. vbscript doesn't support sockets natively but you can call activex/com control ( Mswinsck.ocx etc ? Please research google for more) . if you have powershell on newer systems, you can make use of .Net libraries System.Net.Sockets API.

Oh, okay. I will see if I can get anything about vbscript on Google. Thanks for the reply!

[penpen]

Maybe this is what you are searching for:
http://analects.jeffharbert.com/a-vbscript-wake-on-lan-project/.
(Especially the last script at the bottom of this page.)

penpen

[thephantomblu]

Maybe this is what you are searching for:
http://analects.jeffharbert.com/a-vbscript-wake-on-lan-project/.
(Especially the last script at the bottom of this page.)

penpen

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Set objShell=CreateObject(“wscript.shell”)
strCommand=”C:\scripts\wol.exe” & strMAC
Set objExec=objShell.Exec(strCommand)

It uses an external application wol.exe. Any other ideas?

[penpen]

Sry, haven't inspected the source above fully (beside wol can be downloaded from http://www.gammadyne.com/cmdline.htm).

But maybe this may help you:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19508431/sending-magic-packet-with-vbs
(This should be a VB.NET source file, if i see it right.)

Additionally you may save this batch file as vbc.bat:

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:main
   @echo off
   setlocal
   cls

   set "vbc="

   pushd "%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework"
   for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%i in ('dir /b /o:n "v*"') do (
      dir /a-d /b "%%~fi\vbc.exe" >nul 2>&1 && set "vbc="%%~fi\vbc.exe""
   )
   popd

   if defined vbc (
      echo most recent VB.NET compiler located in:
      echo %vbc%.
   ) else (
      echo VB.NET compiler not found.
      goto :eof
   )

   %vbc% /nologo /target:exe /out:"%~f1.exe" "%~f1.vb"
   goto :eof

and compile the linked script using vbc.bat.

penpen

Edit: The .net framework has to be installed.

[penpen]

To avoid compiling an executable file, a powershell 2.0 version can be found here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/51ef86e5-f3d4-459c-a08a-615c669aff2e/script-to-turn-on-wake-on-magic-packet-from-off-state?forum=ITCG

penpen

[Squashman]

good to see there is a way to do it with Powershell.

[brianmadam]

Is there any way to implement WOL functionality in batch without the need of third-party software?

what system are you running on? If its newer version, check if you have powershell installed.

[foxidrive]

Here's a powershell solution that may work:

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/sc ... n-815424c4

[thephantomblu]

So I think there is absolutely NO way to do this in native batch.

To avoid compiling an executable file, a powershell 2.0 version can be found here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/51ef86e5-f3d4-459c-a08a-615c669aff2e/script-to-turn-on-wake-on-magic-packet-from-off-state?forum=ITCG

penpen

penpen, can we call Powershell scripts in a batch file?

Here's a powershell solution that may work:

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/sc ... n-815424c4

Thanks. This code looks cleaner!

[foxidrive]

can we call Powershell scripts in a batch file?

You can, though there can be issues with permissions and the default restrictions in Powershell.

[berserker]

penpen, can we call Powershell scripts in a batch file?

you can run powershell from batch. See here