[Landmine]

I have a media server that I want to go to sleep when it's not being used. Trying to be green to my wallet. But it seems like since I've done the network mapping to it from client machines, that it doesn't go to sleep.

Before I had it setup so if the Media Server was a sleep, that a network request could wake it up, so I'm wondering if mapping the hard drives pings the Media Server or something else to prevent it from sleeping.

Anyone else played around with this at all?

[Landmine]

Turns out it does, because in Windows 7 and maybe other versions of Windows, Windows Explorer is checking to see if the mapped network is still there when you are browsing folders.

So my situation has become, if any computer is on, the media server is on. That seems ok for me.

[fr500]

You can always check what is blocking your sleep running:

powercfg -requests

On a commandline