Coming from sleep on Mac kills background and resolution

[Jeff Wheeler]

On my mac, I often leave it alone for a while and it goes into sleep mode and shuts off the monitor. That's good. However, when I attempt to come out of sleep mode, I have no background image anymore, and I'm running at some ridiculously low resolution.

I think perhaps my computer can't detect the settings of the monitor because it's off, or some strange thing like that. It's a Mac Mini connected to an old Dell monitor.

Thanks,
Jeff.

[Jeff Wheeler]

And while I'm at it, is there anyway to get a Windows machine (I could put linux on it) to act as a second hard-drive for my mac?

[gonzales]

well i dont know about the monitor problem, but if you have your windows machine on the same network you can connect to it. just turn on windows file sharing on your mac and share your files on your pc and then connect to it with:

smb://192.168.1.101/whatever and you should be able to access your PC...

[Jeff Wheeler]

I know I can connect to it, but I would really rather setup a partition and run RAID. Not sure why, but it's gotta be fun, you know?

[Jeff Wheeler]

I'm trusting the power of Kirupa to answer my question! At once!

[Butters]

well i dont know about the monitor problem, but if you have your windows machine on the same network you can connect to it. just turn on windows file sharing on your mac and share your files on your pc and then connect to it with:

smb://192.168.1.101/whatever and you should be able to access your PC...
It works without the smb:

I just go Start>Run and type in \\192.168.1.101\noahgoodrich and it lets me access my laptop's HD.

[Jeff Wheeler]

Butters, I'm on Mac. Also, I'm already able to connect to it, just not able to treat it as a second hard-drive on which I can run RAID, and have appear in the disk manager.

[ya3]

eh? But is it actually possible to have a network drive connected into a RAID?
Anyway, with physically mounted HDs, you can only have read/write access to FAT32 formatted disks, NTFS is read-only (but they're both read/write when connected as a network drive).