Comments on: Ask Matt: your questions answered http://www.mswhs.com/2011/05/ask-matt-your-questions-answered-11/ Sat, 18 May 2013 05:19:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John Underwood http://www.mswhs.com/2011/05/ask-matt-your-questions-answered-11/#comment-14740 John Underwood Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:16:33 +0000 http://www.mswhs.com/?p=13626#comment-14740 I too would like to change the Workgroup name. I could solve this by changing the names on all my computers and network storage devices but then there would be problems when I VPN into someone else’s network.

I did change the name of the server in the installation wizard. That has interesting repercussions. After one of the several restarts that take place during the installation, an error message appears that says: ‘”Server” can’t be found’ (or words to that effect). The wizard, having taken the new name and passed it to the installer running on the server, has now tried to connect to the old name. (Although the server does not yet appear as a computer on the PC’s network list, there is at least one other device which does appear with the new name).

If you are installing on a computer or happen to have a spare monitor and cable lying around (as in every home of a typical home user for whom the home server is designed) then you can watch progress on that. If not you are faced with watching the error message while nothing happens on the server until, about 40-60 minutes later it bursts into life. You then can read the instruction to log in to the server http://newservername/connect which would have appeared on your PC screen if the PC were in contact with the server.

]]> By: Zachary Soard http://www.mswhs.com/2011/05/ask-matt-your-questions-answered-11/#comment-14595 Zachary Soard Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:15:49 +0000 http://www.mswhs.com/?p=13626#comment-14595 I have never heard of WF4WHS! This is exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you.

However, can you please go into a little detail on how webdav is used for syncing and back up…or at least point me in the right direction

Thanks in advance

]]> By: Andrew Edney http://www.mswhs.com/2011/05/ask-matt-your-questions-answered-11/#comment-14594 Andrew Edney Tue, 31 May 2011 09:39:41 +0000 http://www.mswhs.com/?p=13626#comment-14594 I wrote a how to guide to changing the workgroup name :

http://usingwindowshomeserver.com/2011/05/29/changing-the-workgroup-name-in-windows-home-server-2011/

the process for changing the server name should be the same

Andrew

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