[niietzshe]

I have an Ubuntu PC thats hosting a samba share of my media files over the network. I'm having trouble fully understanding WOL within my setup.

We have the Revo running Ubuntu (or will do, it's an ATV at the minute), two Mac laptops and the Ubuntu server. Ideally I'd like the Samba share to always be visible and when connected to the computer would wake from hibernation.

Is this at all possible? From my laptop it wouldn't be an issue sending a wake package, but from the remote on the revo and my ladies laptop, it would be much preferable to be more automatic.

Any ideas or am I screwed?
Niietzshe

[konan]

If you manage to set up the Ubuntu server to wake up on receiving the WOL packet then you can use the new XBMC Wake-On-Lan add-on to wake it when you are ready to watch a movie.

[jhsrennie]

XBMC has a built in WakeOnLAN command. You could map this to a button on your remote. Getting this configured is a bit involved, but you'd only need to do it once.

JR