kkhendricks

I want my truck computer to boot up at a preset time during the night and log into my home network, download a few web sites, check email, and check my home HD for new MP3's and download them. Am I dreamin'?
Please help.
I have the following equipment

Truck MP3 Sytem

Celeron 500
128 mg
80 gig HD
External USB CDRW
Ethernet card
Hauppage TV/FM card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz 6 channel sound card
A drive
Wireless keyboard

Home System

Gateway 2K
PIII 700
cable modem
Intel anypoint network RJ11
Ethernet (being used by cable modem)

Dell
WebPC
No PCI slots

Is my only option to copy this onto a CDRW and upload each day?

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Arby

Well, you could do the checking new mp3 files thing with filesync, and windows schedule manager.

In some bios's, you can set the computer to come on at a certain time. With windows schedule thingy, you can run a program at a certain time (run filesync a few minutes after your computer boots up) And, lastly, filesync can be setup to automatically copy any new files over to the car.

I don't know about the other things, though

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schrodos

Would it be easier if you did all that syncing when you drove your car home from work and the computer just stayed on for 10 mins or while your car warmed up in the morning?

I've been thinking about doing this a lot myself as I have a wireless network setup between my house and car. Right now I just simply have it as a button on my remote which activates a bunch of stuff, mainly the syncing of my mp3s.

I would like it to sync (mp3s) everytime my car came into the wireless range. So you park your car and it will make sure your all up to date. Or you get in your car and as soon as the computer boots it gets assigned a place (an IP) in the wireless network and again makes sure everything is synced.

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dos4who?

At work, we use a very powerful automation tool to accomplish a number of tasks over the network. Take a look - Might be worth your time...

~m

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