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No WOL without DC
Hi, I'm struggling with wake on lan for weeks now. The point is I cannot WOL a domain member computer when domain controller is down. If DC is up there is no problem at all. It's a small subnet, ...
obviously something is different then. But what?
Sounds like you have somehow made the process domain-DNS-dependent. Active directory domain services is not meant to be a part time service. I suppose it may be time to rethink / rework the topology.
