Will FarSuite work if my Mac is asleep? What are my options?
In order to connect to your Mac, it needs to be awake or able to be woken up.
Airport Base Station - wired connection
You can use this option if you have Snow Leopard.
- Open System Preferences
- Choose Energy Saver
- Laptop users: select the Power Adapter section
- Tick the "Wake for ethernet network access" option (wording may vary)
Now it should be safe to let your Mac go to sleep. When you connect to FarSuite, your Mac should wake up. Make sure you test it from another computer on your network if you can. If you have trouble, there's lots more information in this Macworld article.
Airport Base Station - wireless connection
If you have a newish Mac (2009 onwards, perhaps), the above should work on a wireless connection too. If your Mac supports this, the option described above will be called "Wake for network access". Again, the Macworld article has useful information.
Everyone else
If you don't have an Airport base station, or if the above doesn't work for you, your options are:
- Stop your Mac going to sleep using Energy Saver in System Preferences
- Schedule sleep and wake times if you know you don't need to connect to your Mac at certains times of the day or night, thereby saving power. You might not save much money, but it's good for the environment.
- Investigate wake-on-LAN (advanced users only). Note that wake-on-lan is not built into FarSuite, nor is it likely to be in the future. Your aim is to wake your Mac up, then connect to FarSuite as usual.