[WHS] Windows Home Server Questions.

[Snowl]

Hi guys - since i'm building a new computer i'm interested in making my current computer a home server and was wondering -

I have my current backup on there atm and if I install windows home server on a different partition will I lose all that?

Is it hard to setup?

Can I use it over WIFI?

Thanks,

David.

[Tom Z]

Hi guys - since i'm building a new computer i'm interested in making my current computer a home server and was wondering -

I have my current backup on there atm and if I install windows home server on a different partition will I lose all that?

Is it hard to setup?

Can I use it over WIFI?

Thanks,

David.

Hi David,

Glad to see that you are considering Windows Home Server! To answer your questions, yes you will lose anything that you have on your computer currently, as well as any other hard drives that are connected at the time of installation. If you are comfortabe setting up Windows XP or the like, Windows Home Server should not be too hard to setup. My recommendation would be to make sure that you have any and all network related drivers so that after installation is complete you can get your server connected to the network. You can use Windows Home Server with a WiFi connection, however the server cannot be connected to the network via WiFi. The server has to be connected over ethernet for the features in Windows Home Server to work. Your clients, however, can be connected to the Windows Home Server via WiFi just fine.

I'd recommend that if you want to get more info about Windows Home Server or to download the evaluation edition to try out to see if it will fit your needs, you check out the Windows Home Server website.

Product Page on Microsoft.com

Download the 120-day Evaluation Edition

-Tom

[Snowl]

Thanks Tom! Can you use it (WHS) locally?

[Abhishek kapoor]

Hi Kirbeh

First of all how are you getting so much battery backup ..Saw Your signature 9% left and still 298Hrs ...

and what is the spec of the system which will be making soon WHS ?

[Snowl]

Bug in windows :p

and the spec is quad core, 250gig. I will only be using it at home, don't want to put to the internet. It will be used with 3 users.

[Tom Z]

Thanks Tom! Can you use it (WHS) locally?

Yes, you can use it locally. It does not require access to the internet.

-Tom

[Abhishek kapoor]

haaa great ... otherwise so much battery remaining and pop up for low battery ... DAMN

so you will be using WHS for sharing data within 3 user and u won't be using internet on that WHS ...

[Snowl]

just to confirm, can I install normal programs and use it like a normal os, but still with server capabilities (eg internet explorer, itunes)

[+BudMan MVC]

Depends on the software - quite often yes. but its not meant to be used that way.. its really designed to be a headless server. No monitor even - all aspects of WHS are done through its admin interface, terminal session application. Your not really meant to actually logon to the box itself. But use the special console from another machine.

but sure software that will install onto 2003 small business server should work. thats what it reports itself as.

Host Name: WHS

OS Name: Microsoft? Windows? Server 2003 for Small Business Server

[Snowl]

Grr - it worked until the txt setup!

First I had to load my raid drivers in the gui setup - pain to find them, installed fine, was really happy.

So I rebooted, and it went to the txt setup. It said load drivers for your computer - I pressed F6. it needs a floppy disk. so I go down the street, find a 10 pack of floppy disks, install windows 7, fix the floppy drive to work, put the drivers on the floppy and re-install.

It worked to the txt setup - again. I pressed f6 and pressed s to load the drivers, and it said you need txtsetup.oem to continue - i searched around for these file and it turns out you need to make it - stuff that! so atm im running ubuntu.

can someone help? it's a acer aspire M5640 model.

[+BudMan MVC]

Well for starters not really suppose to be running hardware raid with WHS. So why would you need the drivers?