Archive for July 28th, 2008

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Live Mesh on Windows Home Server

If you haven’t heard of Windows Live Mesh then you must have been on Mars for the last few months. The service enables you to seamlessly connect to people, devices, programs and the information you care about, but unfortunately it’s not compatible with WHS, well, not officially. LiveSide.net have an illustrated tutorial on how to [...]

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Media Center 2005 on Windows Home Server

Media Center 2005 on Windows Home Server

The guys over in the We Got Served forums have got Media Center 2005 running on Windows Home Server.    Also of interest to you may be The Green Button’s Media Center 2005 on a Windows 2003 Server post which helped accomplish what they were doing.

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HP SlowDown

Have you experienced a slow down to your HP MediaSmart Server after installing PP1 and the 2 HP downloads McAfee’s Total Protection Service and PacketVideo’s PVConnect Media Server? A number of users have experienced slowdowns due to the PVConnect media indexing task, which runs after installation, compounded by McAfee’s on-access malware protection (per disk-read basis), [...]

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Protecting your Server and Home Network from Viruses

MediaSmarthome.com has a great guide on protecting your HP MediaSmart Server and home network from viruses and malicious software. The 4 page guide shows you how to secure your wireless network, and tells us about firewall protection and antivirus software. File and folder permissions, user accounts and sharing folders and media are also discussed. Keeping [...]

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Access PVConnect from a Web Browser

With the new PVConnect software available from HP for MediaSmart users, the Home server Show has a great guide showing you how to access the PVConnect settings from within a browser? Available here.