smb oddity
 

I am running red-hat 8 and just set up smb to remotely mount a windows share to a folder on my '~/Desktop/mnt'

Everything went according to plan except one thing. The windows computer now boots whenever I either open a browser on my linux box, or even wake it from the screen saver. I wasn't aware that smb sends a wakeup packet out. Has anyone else experienced this, or did I do something funky? I didn't edit any config files for the mount, because I only use the share once in a great while. I simply run the following as root when I need it, and it goes away after I reboot.

/usr/bin/smbmount //bedroom/c /home/me/Desktop/mnt I bedroom c etcfi

Seems correct to me, and it does what I want, but if I don't reboot after opening the share, every time I initiate a network connection or wake the computer up, it also boots the windows box.

Another strange thing is that I don't have the wake-on-lan power wire connected from the nic to the mobo on the windows box.

Any ideas?

Delve deeply into the docs for the network card that is doing wakeup when you don't want it to, even if you have to ask for support from the manufactuter the answer should be with them if you told it not to do Wake on LAN.

FYI: I think theres a spec in PCI or an open line speced as unused in PCI that a WoL NIC can use to communicate with the board, bypassing the need for a seperate WoL cable.