Folding on Windows home server

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Has anyone had any experience of folding on windows home server?

I'm thinking about using my folding machine as a server for media and backups, can anyone see any potential problems running 4x GPU clients?

Also could you use the WHS remote console whilst folding, or would it mess up like when you use remote desktop?

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If you RDP into a computer folding with the GPU client then you will kill the foldy goodness :(

However, I have read Real/Tight/Ultra/Crap/Whatever VNC and LogMeIn work. In fact, I will try LogMeIn now...!
 
As far as I can tell the remote console doesn't actually show you the screen, just allows you to alter the system settings. So I'm hoping it would work alongside.

You can get an evaluation copy of WHS, so guess I'm just going to have to suck it and see.
 
Well I plan to run Server 2008 once I get everything sorted, and that will be my GPU folder too. Remote Console would be nice as having full remote GUI isn't always necessary.

I have just tested LogMeIn though and that didn't do anything nasty to my GPU clients. So, if WHS is a no go, LMI is always an alternative - albeit not quite as neat.
 
I've used Logmein before and it's not too bad but was very laggy for me when folding. And it always seemed to replace the drivers with logmein mirror drivers which always worried me a little.

At the moment though the machine takes about 5min to wake up properly from the blank screen when I check up on it anyway, so I dare not do anything else on it! (only got 1gb of ram running Win 7RC)
 
I fold on servers quite a bit, not used home server but don't see how you would get it working really I don't think it gives you the ability to install apps on it does it?
 
Done it for months on my WHS. Just dont use remote desktop, use Tight VNC or similar. Otherwise it logs you out. With the others it keeps you logged in as a user.
Also, dont let it update itself automatically, otherwise it will kill your foldy processes and you would have to start again!
 
This may not be relavant as it's Linux, but I do server administration via a web-browser (webmin ) on both my Linux servers, no interaction with the GPU's at all, just the Apache2 Web-Server.

Maybe there is an applicaiton out there which you could do the same for Windows. I've had mixed results in the past with VNC, it workes well on lower resolution settings, but was horrible on screen res above 1024.
 
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