On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Ashim Acharya <ashimtron@gmail.com> wrote:
I want my media pc to automatically mount several samba shares when
On 01/08/2013 05:39 PM, Sander Jansen wrote: they're
accessed. In addition it also needs to wake-up the other machine if it is currently suspended via WOL.
From a forum post on xbmc.org (1) I know this can be done using autofs, but I'd like to see if this can be using systemd alone. I know systemd can handle the automounting, but what about the WOL?
Is it as simple as merely providing a dependency to the specific automount service file to first do the WOL? A oneshot unit? Or perhaps part of the same unit file with ExecStartPre (if there is such a thing in a automount file)?
Any hints or tips?
Thanks,
Sander
[1] http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=118164 Might be simpler to set up your wol servers with "ethtool -s ethX wol u" to wake on unicast messages.
That might be a good idea. I assume the mere attempt to mount / connect to the server would wake it up. I guess the only downside that any other attemps to connect would wake up the machine as well. As opposed to a more controlled way using the magic packet. Sander