Hi all, just taken the plunge and got a home server started but there are a few things i'm not sure about???
basicly what I'm trying to do is set-up a central storage/media sharing server to share movies & music to my 4 PC's and 3 xbox 360s oh and ps3
i've got a dodgy old Fujitsu Siemens e600 (p4 2.8, 768Mb ddr but most important 10/100/1000 network card
(got cheap off a well known auction site)) and stuck in a nice fat 1.5Tb Sammy green and all was good, managed to get all my movies/music over but since installing all the updates i can't access the server to add more stuff
the other things i'm looking for help on are what is the best way to serve media to both 360 & ps3, what type of security should i be running and if there are other things i should know it would be most appreciated as i am a total noob when it comes to this type of thing
also i have a question regarding windows 7, im currently running home premium on my main pc but have a copy of pro coming due to student discount anyway what i want to do is install pro on my main pc and use HP on my lappy, is this going to cause any problems with M$ or am i stressing for nothing
anyway any help you guys can provide would be most appreciated
basicly what I'm trying to do is set-up a central storage/media sharing server to share movies & music to my 4 PC's and 3 xbox 360s oh and ps3
i've got a dodgy old Fujitsu Siemens e600 (p4 2.8, 768Mb ddr but most important 10/100/1000 network card
(got cheap off a well known auction site)) and stuck in a nice fat 1.5Tb Sammy green and all was good, managed to get all my movies/music over but since installing all the updates i can't access the server to add more stuffthe other things i'm looking for help on are what is the best way to serve media to both 360 & ps3, what type of security should i be running and if there are other things i should know it would be most appreciated as i am a total noob when it comes to this type of thing
also i have a question regarding windows 7, im currently running home premium on my main pc but have a copy of pro coming due to student discount
anyway what i want to do is install pro on my main pc and use HP on my lappy, is this going to cause any problems with M$ or am i stressing for nothing anyway any help you guys can provide would be most appreciated