If you are the owner of a Acer Aspire easyStore H340 then you may want to check out a post over at Jesseweb.com on how to change the default Acer splash screen page to a login page more to your liking. The easy 10 step tutorial can be found here.
By installing the PlayOn Media Server onto your Windows Home Server (Service Pack 1 or later) you are then able to watch Netflix, Hulu, CBS, YouTube, CNN, ESPN and Revision3 amongst others on your PS3, Xbox 360, HP MediaSmart TV, Popcorn Hour or other UPnP/DLNA compliant device. This is all done via the PlayOn software […]
The Home Server Land series on Securing Your WHS & Network is now at part 13, and this installment is about FTP Hosting Threats. As well as explaining what the FTP protocol is, the article explains about FTP Servers and why you shouldn’t install FTP add-ins or use the WHS as an FTP server. You […]
Windows Home Server enthusiast Scott Duff has updated our original 2 year old post on How to Install uTorrent on your WHS Box, which of course is the ideal place for Torrents to live as most of our Home Servers are on 24/7. You can read Scott’s tutorial here.
The Home Server Show website is reporting that users of the 64 bit version of the Windows 7 Release Candidate (Build 7100) are having a problem connecting their machine to their Windows Home Server. Although the connector software installs correctly the client then alerts you that your Windows 7 machine and WHS passwords are not […]
The securing your WHS and network series of articles continues over at HomeServerLand with part 10 "HTTPS and Secure Web Hosting Threats". This part looks at how to configure the router’s HTTPS rule, how to configure the user’s remote access and the home server’s secured domain, as well as the configuration to address threats and […]
If you would like to run a subversion server off of Windows Home Server then Scott Hanselman has the details. Website Lifehacker describes a subversion server as: Think of Subversion as a wiki-like repository for your files. Each time you make a change to a file or group of files that you’re happy with, you […]
MediaSmartHome have a guide on how to convert and stream your home movies with the HP MediaSmart Server. The 4 page guide explains how to firstly get your home movies on to your PC and how to create conversion folders for simplicity. You are then shown how to use the HP Video Converter to do […]
The Digital Lifestyle.Com has details of how to add your Windows Home Server shared folders to the syncing software Live Mesh. This could to useful if your Recorded TV folders are not on the same network as you could then get them synced over the Internet with Windows Home Server. Installing Mesh on Windows Home […]
Website Spackle has details on installing VPN software on Windows Home Server as well as details on setting up remote access on your router. From making the settings "stick" to connecting to the WHS remote desktop directly (without going through WHS), this great post can be read here. WordPress Tags: Software,Spackle
