Posted on Sunday 18 February 2007 by Dave
Finally got Home Server up and running in my real network with no fuss and no muss. While the install procedure is rather lengthy it was easy and mostly hands off. I was going to go out and buy a new machine to test the beta but in when I was reading the beta documentation one of the points were that it was hoped that Home Server would be able to run on a older PC. The PC I pieced together was barely over spec but it still worked easily. I will have to add some additional external storage soon though as I only had smaller hard drives available.
I installed the connector software on my Windows Vista laptop. Once installed I was able to connect remotely to the Home Server:
Once logged in you can see the status console:
On this first screen you can see all the computers that are associated with the the server. In this case I only have the one PC at this time associated. The next area is User Accounts:
The next area on the console is the Shared Folders which lists all the shares you have access to:
We then come to the Server Storage console:
Since my firewall is off on this laptop the Network Status shows a critical error:
I will go into more detail on each of these sections in future posts.