Will Webjimbo 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.

EasyConnect users (blue menu bar icon)

If your Mac is connected using EasyConnect you cannot let your it go to sleep, even if you have a compatible Airport device. Use Energy Saver in System Preferences to stop your Mac going to sleep, otherwise you won't be able to connect to it.

The menu bar icon will be blue if you're connected with EasyConnect, or you can check in the Connection pane.

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 Webjimbo, 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 Webjimbo, nor is it likely to be in the future. Your aim is to wake your Mac up, then connect to Webjimbo as usual.