Windows Home server CAL

[Howski]

Hi,

does anyone one know if the CALs attached to the Windows home server actually means? Does it mena you can have 10 installs of the client SW or does it mean you can only have 10 devices acessing it? If I have a home network ith more then 10 devices and plug in a home server will I have difficulty?
Cheers
-Howard.

 

[Howski]

you can have 10 users or devices but no more iirc

Yea thats the bit we are trying to work out. We were having a play with one of ours today in work and discussing how good/bad it is.

The counter point to buying one was made (by myself) that for pretty much everything your better off getting a cheap desktop with RAID and running XP Pro. The biggest counter argument was that you can only have 10 (IIRC) Units connected but we were not sure how the Home Server CALs worked. Is it 10 connected units or what. For instance (although I know this is an extreme example) If you had 10 PCs on a network with the client SW and set up on the HS and you tried to connect to stream media from an Xbox 360 what would happen. Is it just 10 units in the PC list on the HS that can be listed but more can access the share using user account like "Guest" or what?

I'm pretty unimpressed with the OS TBH - great idea poor implementation.

-Howard

 

[Howski]

Yea the web interface is quite nice. We were mainly on about the specific server units when we were talking about it. When your shelling out £450 for something like that I'd kinda would have expected a little more.

Tell me - as we don't get to play with these too much, have you just popped the OS on a computer? Can you set up print sharing? We were told that you can only use the USB ports for data drives - which sucks.

As for the M$ RAID thing - when they fix it it will probably be fine but why re-invent the wheel. RAID controllers are on nearly every MB and must be pretty cheap for one that does mirroring. They just made a rod for their back that back fired in a huge way with the bug.

From the back up view the consensus was a external HDD with a LAN port which would probably cost about as much as the OS