Windows Home Server Questions?

platypus said:
When you say you did a full install - did you copy your data elsewhere, or not have much on there before you upgraded? I haven't entered a trial key either, just have the 30 day trial period before activation is required.
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I had a lot of data, but then again I had even more storage space. :D
While I was trying WHS, I still had my other backup systems in operation. After I was satisfied with my WHS trial, I rebuilt my system and did a fresh install.
 
Trouble is its onboard LAN, so I'm not sure what drivers I need. Just seems like WHS hasn't detected the LAN port, even though its active.
 
Really not having much luck at all with WHS. It just seems to lose networking capabilities. When I boot up, there's no net connection, connected or disconnected, and in networking there is no LAN connection set up, disabled or enabled.

And adding a new network via the Network Connection Wizard seems to do, well, bugger all.
 
Just point out the obvious first -
Have you disabled the onboard LAN in the BIOS?
LAN card in a differnet slot?

Also if the network card is a little obscure ie not Realtek or Intel (like my USRobotics gigalan card I just purchased to replace a dead onboard Realtek in my second PC), you may need to have to install the drivers from somewhere.
 
Thats a fair point, I haven't disabled the onboard LAN - even though the NIC I stuck in was picked up, installed, and worked fine whilst I was still logged into windows.

After rebooting the PCI NIC was also lost - will try disabling onboard LAN tonight.

It's a D-Link card, that windows picked up no problems.
 
Yes, I ran utorrent as a service on WHS. Never used altbins but I'm sure you can. There is an add-in but its not very good!
Just RDP ino the WHS and treat it as a normal server. Just in applications use \\server rather than d:\.

What sort of HDD monitoring are you talking about out of interest, how is it different to WHS console / disk management?
 
like hdd sentinel or hdd temp, just something to monitor the hdds in case they start to get too hot or start dieing and showing smart/read and write failures.

Sort of an early warning system, i know its got a backup feature I read but dunno if whs has a system to see hdds going bad...
 
If your HDD supports SMART then WHS will detect the hdd is failed and prompt you to add a new drive / move the data off the failing drive though the notifications. You could also then setup the remote alert adding, not sure on the name but it emails you the notifications. Disk Management addin can give you stats on your hdd like temps and speeds.

But I can't see anything why hdd temp or hdd sentinel wouldn't work :P
 
Finally got round to spending an evening setting things up - very impressed I have to say. It really is just plug and play software.

Qu3 said:
Yes, I ran utorrent as a service on WHS. Never used altbins but I'm sure you can. There is an add-in but its not very good!
Just RDP ino the WHS and treat it as a normal server. Just in applications use \\server rather than d:\.

What sort of HDD monitoring are you talking about out of interest, how is it different to WHS console / disk management?
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Out of interest - using uTorrent as I've set it up last night, I set it to download to D:\ as the sys drive (C) was a small partition. Should I not do that?

(Eg: I have a 160GB Hdd as the system drive and its been partitioned by WHS in to SYS and DATA.)

And how did you run it as a service (I presume that means it can run not logged in)?

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Got some more hard drives to shove in tonight, and then I'm going to trust my music collection to it*!











*whilst keeping a backup elsewhere ofc :p.
 
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No, set it up so it downloads to \\server\<directory name>

This is due to WHS using the D drive as part of its storage pool. Best not to mess about with it, as its easy to break.
 
Ok cheers.

The one annoying thing about the server is naturally the noise. I carefully built a quiet PC, and the HDDs are now the noisiest thing :p.
 
Just wonder if the issue has been fixed regarding moving from an evaluation key to a retail key? Or will I need to reinstall my server thereby losing any data on the disks?
 
Yeah you can use d:\share etc etc but its not recommended especially for writing files. A friend actually was using that way and he found he got a few file permission errors etc. its best to use \\server.

I used any service installer. Here is a wiki article that tells you how to do it.
http://wiki.wegotserved.com/index.php?title=UTorrent_on_Windows_Home_Server

Alternatively if you have lots of drives you could not add one in to the pool and use that to download too. I did it this way when the corruption bug hadn't been fixed.

Noise is a problem for me too, more humming really from the hard driving, I have 7 :P
 
platypus said:
Just wonder if the issue has been fixed regarding moving from an evaluation key to a retail key? Or will I need to reinstall my server thereby losing any data on the disks?
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You can preform a reinstall which was save your data on the disks from reinstall WHS. I had issues with this as I needed to load up sata drivers.

I'm not sure if you can just enter the retail key did you use the evaluation install disc or a retail disc?
 
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