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I have a Centos server setup at home and use dyndns.org through my Linksys wrt-54gl to access my server through tunneling VNC over SSH when I’m away from home. From my server desktop screen I do a command rdesktop (internal IP of computers) to get to my PC, Mac, etc and view their screens. Then I copy files to and from the server using its samba shares internally then I SSH files to and from my server using SSH file transfer wherever I’m at. The problem is my Mac Pro is connected through wlan and after a few hours it drops connection and the only way to wake it is to open safari from the Mac Pro at home. I have set the power saving features to tell it to never go to sleep but only sleep the monitor after 15 min. So my options are: find a utility that keeps the Wlan active, write a script file that keeps it active, run a cable from my wireless router to the Mac Pro (not what I want to do) or find a program to send a Wake On Lan packet to the Mac Pro card (I enabled that feature in settings already. The problem is I don’t know of any utilities and I have never used Wake On Lan. Wake On Lan is probably the best choice if it worked. I could run a Linux only or a windows program under wine to do that. if I knew the port I could forward the Mac port for Wake On Lan out from my router then send it a Wake On Lan packet from a website since I know there are websites like that but I’d rather not expose the max externally and I really would like to wake it internally is possible.
Yea I’m There with you Jeffrey, Im a network systems administrator for a small private college and i have my lan at home with various features just haven’t had much time to research a fix and wanted to get some suggestions. thanks

I am looking for a freeware program that I can use to shrink a hard disk partition that already has Windows XP home and other programs already installed. I want to shrink the partition so that I can intall Linux Fedora as a dual boot.

How much space is good for Linux so that I can install both the O/S and have plenty of room to install other programs? Would 10 GB be ok?

Also, what is the success rate of shrinking a partition? I don’t have any files on that hard drive that I cannot replace but I am just wondering how safe it is on preserving the data that is already there.

how do i install mandriva lunix 2008 on my computer? i have xp home edition on here already, and when i restaurt my computer it doesnt install lunix it just sends me to the guest set-up, it doesnt ever install? do i have to format my harddrive then start all over,

Can 2 linux distros (Ubuntu and openSUSE in my case) share a /home partition?
This is what I want to do:

Partition 1:
Primary Ext3 mount point “/” (openSUSE)

Partition 2:
Primary Ext3 mount point “/” (Ubuntu)

Partition 3:
Primary Ext3 mount point “/home” (Ubuntu & Suse)

Partition 4:
Logical Swap Area (Ubuntu & Suse)
Or would the hidden configuration files screw things up?

My media file-server has a 20TB RAID6 volume which itself is redundant. However, if any other components fail (motherboard, power supply, etc.), then the server will go down.

What can I do to maintain 100% uptime? I don’t mind buying another server or two but I wanna avoid spending again on that many hard drives.

Is a cluster possible where the drives are connected to all servers?

I’m running CentOS 5.1.
@adude707:

As I mentioned in the original post, I don’t wanna spend again on additional hard drives.

Secondly, this is not meant to be an online server so there’s no need to put it in a datacentre. I’ve kept it in my basement to serve files. I work as a cameraman and video editor and work with high definition. Sometimes the size of each plate (shot) is enormous and over time, my storage requirements have grown. My room mate does compositing and hence the need of a fileserver where we can have all our work stored on.

It wouldn’t kill us if the server went down for a few minutes (I have spare components ready) because of faulty hardware but I want to avoid these kind of interruptions while we’re working.

As far as bandwidth is concerned, it’s all local traffic so it doesn’t really matter. I’m just doing link aggregation on GigE ports.

So anyway, back to my original question. So I guess there is no other way than keeping an identical server online? That’s gonna double my expenses.