[vibe666]

is it possible that the server is not in a fully powered off state and that it's just in one of the available suspended modes and that WOL isn't supported by the OS in that state?

it might be worth checking your BIOS to see which power off states are available to test, and to power down the server totally and re-try sending a WOL packet to it and see what happens.

as long as the server is totally powered down rather than suspended and WOL is supported by the NIC (regardless of the OS) it *should* (he says, instantly jinxing himself) still power up as the result should be no different than physically buttoning it.

hopefully.

[Jonathan]

Originally Posted by vibe666

is it possible that the server is not in a fully powered off state and that it's just in one of the available suspended modes and that WOL isn't supported by the OS in that state?

it might be worth checking your BIOS to see which power off states are available to test, and to power down the server totally and re-try sending a WOL packet to it and see what happens.

as long as the server is totally powered down rather than suspended and WOL is supported by the NIC (regardless of the OS) it *should* (he says, instantly jinxing himself) still power up as the result should be no different than physically buttoning it.

hopefully.

AFAIK WOL requires the NIC to be set to a certain mode before shutdown. FreeBSD probably isn't doing this.

[vibe666]

Originally Posted by Jonathan

AFAIK WOL requires the NIC to be set to a certain mode before shutdown. FreeBSD probably isn't doing this.

see, what did i tell you? jinxed!

[spongerobinson]

yep jonathan is right...the FreeBSD driver doesn't set it into the right mode on shutdown. Plenty of posts about it in the FreeNAS forums...only certain network cards are supported, so if WOL is really a necessity it would be possible to buy a different network card and fit it to the server. Personally I just turn the machine on manually when i need it and shut it down through the web interface.

[GaryCocs]

Hi Lads, what's the email address I can email the claim to??

[J-blk]

Originally Posted by GaryCocs

Hi Lads, what's the email address I can email the claim to??

It's this one:

promotions@out-bound(.)co(.)uk

Got my cheque on Friday, they got my form on 16/12 (via snail mail) so just about 45 days all in... though in fairness, the holiday break was in there so they might be processing them faster now. Delighted with the promotion though, I thought even at €275 it was fantastic value!

[GaryCocs]

Nice one, just got it last night, trying to make my windows server version USB bootable. 1st attempt wasn't great through the mac. BOO!

[J-blk]

Originally Posted by GaryCocs

Nice one, just got it last night, trying to make my windows server version USB bootable. 1st attempt wasn't great through the mac. BOO!

Sounds like fun . I just had a DVD drive lying around so installed that and installed WHS 2011 the old school way, unfortunately MS hasn't made USB installation of their OSes as easy as Apple...

BTW, if you have mostly Mac clients (as in my case - the WHS is pretty much the only Windows machine I have) and Lion, there are some conflicts with the built-in Launchpad and the WHS Launchpad cause of the identical name that you should be aware of:

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/e...c-460c9a392434

The workaround that is used at the moment is detailed in the 3rd post on that thread. TBH, I can live without the WHS launchpad on my Macs, I find it easier to just RD into it.

[GaryCocs]

How random is that about launch pad, do you need that for WHS? Could you not just remote desktop in? I've been away from windaz for so long I don't know much about em.

Reckon I'll give the usb another go on a windows machine. There's a few usb generators that might do the trick.

[J-blk]

Originally Posted by GaryCocs

How random is that about launch pad, do you need that for WHS?

It's annoying as hell and neither Apple or MS give a crap TBH. Like I said, I just left off the WHS Launchpad, it's pretty useless IMO. Just remote desktop in for anything you need. And on that note, you may want to try out the excellent CoRD, instead of MS Remote Desktop for Mac, it's far better:

http://cord.sourceforge.net/

Best of luck with the install, the Microserver + WHS 2011 makes a sweet combo. Install Plex Media Server for Windows on it and you're golden .

[spongerobinson]

another thing to bare in mind if your mainly using macs, is that Samba connections can be very slow on Mac if you've got alot of files/directories, so might be worth looking into AFP, or NFS.

Not sure what the situation is with these on Windows Server, but be worth a Google anyways!

[slowlydownwards]

Originally Posted by GaryCocs

...Reckon I'll give the usb another go on a windows machine. There's a few usb generators that might do the trick.

After trying out lots of guides and how-tos this seems to be the best and easiest out there IMHO

http://wintoflash.com/home/en/

[ixtlan]

Just FYI, I have Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit on this. WOL is working, though I had to try a few different things to set it up, and now I can't really remember what did it. It's certainly the case that the net card has to be shut down properly in a particular state.

As far as I can see there is no bios wakeup, which is unfortunate, and no S3 sleep, just hibernate. I have the server doing backups of some windows PCs with "backuppc" and that is working very nicely but ideally I'd have it wake up every few hours to check if a backup was needed and then hibernate back.

I tried "rigel" as a media streamer to a remote xbmc session on a mac mini and that worked fine too, though it's not something I'll use much. Mostly I got this as a toy... useful for backups... and maybe if I get some more memory, I might put some VMs on it.

Ix.

[machalla]

Originally Posted by J-blk

Best of luck with the install, the Microserver + WHS 2011 makes a sweet combo. Install Plex Media Server for Windows on it and you're golden .

I'm curious, how does this plex perform on this setup for transcoding files for remote clients if you have ever tried that on it.

[J-blk]

Originally Posted by machalla

I'm curious, how does this plex perform on this setup for transcoding files for remote clients if you have ever tried that on it.

It works very well - for the most part. The Microserver has replaced an older WHS v1 HP Mediasmart I had and that was simply not powerful enough for what I wanted (the majority of my library is 720p MKV files and some 1080p ones too). The Microserver with Plex Media Server has no issues at all though - I stream to a Mac Mini with the Plex client and a MacBook. Flawless every time.

I also stream to the iOS clients on an iPhone and iPad and there I'm having issues with a small number of files, which seem to get transcoded on the server and the CPU usage goes to 100%. I'm not sure why this is yet since the Mac clients have no issue but obviously the bottleneck is happening server side. It could be the fact that I have the stock 2GB of memory and Plex Media Server recommended is 4GB.

But even so, this happens with a small number of files, e.g one out of every 6-7 things I watch. I'd definitely recommend the Microserver with Plex, it wipes the floor with my old server which cost over 3 times as much!