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  • Mac DAW - Vista Slave for Ensemble: Boot on Lan

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    I'd like to boot a Vista 64 Slave PC via the LAN connection from my Mac DAW. It should be possible but I couldn't find out how to configure it. best regards
  • S
    S

     Not sure what you are after. I have a PC slave, all I do is turn it on at the front button, when windows boots up I have Vienna Ensemble service automatically start by adding it to my registry run.

    Then to see it, I use Windows Remote Desktop for Mac and I can control any of the VE's using it once I have opened my project on the mac. 

    To shut it down I close my project on my DAW, which shuts down all the VE3 instances on the PC. Then using windows remote desktop I can close the vienna service and send a control-alt-delete and select shutdown to shutdown the pc.

    Hope this helps.

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    That's exactly how I use it, too. But to make it even easier it should be possible to remote-boot the Vista-PC from the Mac via lan, if your PC's Ethernet Controller / Mainboard supports this feature (BootonLan). I just wanted to see if anyone got this to work with a Mac software. I just found the software WakeonLan for MAC, but as I'm not a network-specialist it will be hard for me to find out how to make it work.
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    Ah yeah, got it now!! I know you have to turn this feature on either by jumpers on the board itself or in the bios. Have you checked these?
  • cmC
    VSL Team
    cmC

    some wording ahead:

    boot from lan (the network interface accesses a server and loads the operating system from there ... that's what some schools do with macs from an XSERVE) - the network card and the server have to support that.

    wake-on-lan (some other machine sends a special package to the computer to start a *normal* boot) - the network interface has to support that and often this has to be enabled in the BIOS (energy options) ... the motherboard and the power supply have to support that too ... (check motherboard manual)

     

    now knowing the mac-address (eg. 00:AB:12:34:56:78) of the computer to wake up you can send such a special package, which is said to be standardized .. but it is not really ... you might need to try various tools until you succeed ... check google searching for WoL and your network card (and maybe motherboard), someone might have already solved it for a specific configuration.

    hth, christian

    and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.
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    You're right, I mixed up two different things: I's wake on lan (wol) what I was trying to figure out with the PC. As far as I found out my PC's onboard Network chip has a setting for receiving "magic packages", but the bios (isn't up to date) has no wol setting.
  • cmC
    VSL Team
    cmC

    so first step taken ... now check your motherboard's manual from which energy saving state the NIC (= Network Interface Card) allows waking up the system ... some only support from hibernate

    S1 = standby (drives and display off), S2 = standby (cpu off), S3 = standby(only refresh RAM) aka *save-to-RAM*, S4 = hibernate aka *save-to-disk*, S5 = shut down

     

    find an application which is said to work with your NIC and start testing

    christian

    and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.
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    Thanks for your help, Christian. It's working with S1 and S3 now, but the bios doesn't support S5, so I will have to boot the PC manually...