SoonerAl
Old Enough To Know Better
Premium,MVM
join:2002-07-23
Norman, OK
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Re: [WHS] Try Windows Home Server for 120 days
I just converted my old desktop into a WHS box this last Thursday. It really is a quite impressive, IMHO, piece of software. My WHS is a Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz box, 512 Meg RAM with a 160 Gig and a 20 Gig hard drive.
The WHS backups my wife's XP Pro machine and my Vista Ultimate laptop automatically on a daily basis, something I never had in the past. I also setup a remote access account and privileges for my brother (who lives in Florida) and myself. My brother has access to shared folders/files while I have access to shared folders/files and my own specifically owned folder. He also has a WHS running and I have similar privileges on his machine, ie. access to shared folders/files only. My wife only has access to shared folders/files and her specificlly owned folder on the WHS. She does not have remote access privileges.
Remote Desktop access is easy and fast to my wife's XP Pro machine if I need it.
All access to my WHS and shared folders/files or Remote Desktop to access my wife's XP Pro machine is via a web based interface that requires two ports to be opened on any firewall/router the WHS is behind, ie. TCP Port 443 and TCP Port 4125.
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DocLarge
Premium
join:2004-09-08 | Nice!
I may give this a playaround before I pack my stuff up and head back to the states in January...
Got a job at a network operations center....
Jay |
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MSeng
Premium,Ex-Mod 2001-08
join:2000-07-13
Ork
clubs: | reply to SoonerAl
I've been beta testing an AV program for WHS also -- »[BETA] avast! Windows Home Server Edition
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Microsoft MVP (Windows Shell/User), 2004-2007 |
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