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My Windows Home Server yields nothing when I type ipconfig
Even ipconfig /all doesn't yield anything. Does this mean the on-board ethernet is fried?
(Oh, and this is WHS 2008 SP2.)
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Copying from WHS 2011 backup very slow
I'm setting up a new computer to replace one of my old ones, and part of doing so is extracting my Home folder from a backup I made just before wiping the old one. However, copying from the mounted ...
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Where can I buy/download a legal ISO copy of Windows home Server 2011? [closed]
I'm Wondering where I can buy/download a copy of Windows Home Server 2011. I would like to install today.
I know I can go to eBay/Amazon and buy it. But it would be nice if I could do it today.
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Remote potato port forwarding
So I just setup port forwarding on my WHS server. turned off all the firewall settings for testing purposes. Went into my Linksys E3000 Router and setup port forward for 9080-9083 like the ...
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Corrupt file record segments on new drive
I have a hard-drive problem with an HP EX475 MediaSmart Server running the Win2003-derived version of Windows Home Server.
About three months ago the machine started reporting read errors and ...
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How to determine why HP DataVault X510 WHS fails to boot?
I have a HP DataVault X510 Windows Home Server that does not appear to boot up any more. It turns on displays all three lights (power, network & health) for a couple of seconds then turns off for ...
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Windows Home Server Passwords Do Not Match
I have a Windows Home Server that chunks along just fine most of the time. I've never bothered to put it on a UPS and so it's vulnerable to power outages that happen a few times a year. This most ...
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How can I find where my files have gone - Windows Home Server
Today I have looked on my homeserver and a single folder holding all my photos has gone from one of my shares on my homeserver, fortunately everything is backed up, but what it the best way to see ...
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Does Windows Home Server (v1) recognise previously-backed-up drives, after an OS re-install?
I would like to understand how Windows Home Server (v1) treats previously-backed-up disk drives, after the Operating System on C:\ has been re-installed, in order to work out whether my Home Server ...
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Windows Home Server 2011: My Computer and Disk Properties show old Label after rename
I have a Windows Home Server 2011 box (based on Windows Server 2008 R2).
For ease of use I label my data drives with what is on them:
Data (E:) [500 GB SATA] Data Backup (R:) [500 GB USB]
My Data ...
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Install Linux/Alternative OS on Headless Server
Question in short:
How to install an alternative OS (debian preferred) on a headless server and what OS to use for a home media/dataserver.
My questions now is:
How to do it?
The server will, in ...
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How is WHS 2011 handling backups of a mirrored drive (RAID-1)?
I have Windows Home Server 2011 automatically backing up my PC.
The relevant specifications are that my 500GB system drive is a software mirror and my PC is running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1.
I expected ...
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Fault finding on wireless and wired network
My home network is proving very unreliable. Setup as follows -
Upstairs Office - All ethernet wired
Switch connected to downstairs router
Desktop PC
Windows Home Server
Oki Printer
Downstairs ...
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How to back up VM's on Windows 8 Preview Hyper-V with WHS 2011?
I've got a computer running the Windows 8 Developer Preview and I've enabled the Hyper-V support built into that. I use a Windows Home Server 2011 box for backing up my computers. Settings and ...
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Windows Home Server 2011, No disks “suitable for a backup destination”
I recently installed Windows Home Server 2011 and love it. However, when I try to set up server backups, it says no suitable disks are available. Initially, before I set up my RAID, it found one of ...
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Windows Home Server 2011 as a Desktop OS?
I have an old Laptop that requires a Windows OS licence. It appears that Windows Home Server 2011 is about half the price of a Windows 7 licence, so my question is if it is suitable to be used in ...
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Is it possbile to prevent a directory from being listed in Windows?
I'm using Windows Home Server 2011 and connecting to it with various Windows 7 version clients.
Suppose I have a shared directory (or server folder) mydir on my WHS box which contains a subdirectory ...
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WHS and 2TB disks: The system disk can be a jumpered WD EARS drive?
As we all know WHS does not like the new disks with 4K sectors.
It's possible to use a western digital EARS drive, jumpered to emulate 512b sectors with the data disk with no issue.
What will happen ...
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Can I stop Windows displaying a folder as 'My Pictures' when its physical path is different?
I have a folder on my Windows Home Server where I store my RAW photos. The path on the server is E:\ServerFolders\Photography, and is shared at \\server\Photography. However, at some time since ...
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Windows Home Server 2011 fails to boot on new hardware
I had to change the motherboard, CPU and memory in my WHS 2011 recently, but after doing so it wont boot up. After the BIOS screen, the monitor is black for a moment and then, the system automatically ...
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I'm trying to mirror drives of the same model, but one appears to be slightly larger
I'm trying to mirror a drive using Disk Management in Windows Home Server 2011. The target drive (Disk 1) is the exact same model as the source drive (Disk 0), but the target drive appears to be 1MB ...
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Windows Home Server 2007 - How to automatically turn it on at 7pm and turn it off at 11pm
In an effort to reduce my family's consumption on electricity, I would like to automate turning my home server on and off. what's the best approach for this using Windows Home Server 2007? Please list ...
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How can I move Active Directory Users to Windows Home Server 2011
I have been using Windows Server 2008 RS for a number of years, at my home. I am tired of the maintenance, and work involved in maintaining it. I also like the idea of the features involved with WHS ...
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Install WHS 2011 64 bit on 3TB RAID 1 failing
I am attempting to install WHS 2011 64bit on a new computer with two Hitachi 3TB drives in a RAID 1 configuration. So far my attempts have been "Unattended" installs, but each time I get back to the ...
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Recommend versioned backup solution for NAS at home
I have a Windows Home Server which I would like to backup to a secondary NAS located on the local network.
Requirements for the backup are as follows:
Some kind of control over backing-up a subset ...
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Restore WHS2011 client backups from the cloud?
Starting with a little background: I have a home server with Windows Home Server 2011 installed. I make backups of the data stored on my home client computers to the home server using WHS' built in ...
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Are “Green” Hard Drives a Suitable a Storage Medium when Running Windows Home Server? [closed]
Does anyone have experience running WHS using "green" hard drives? What have your experiences been?
Normally I wouldn't touch them for a server that has even moderate use but they are also much ...
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Windows Home Server 2011 - Where has all my drivespace gone?
I have just installed Windows Home Server 2011 on a freshly built box with 2 x Samsung 2TB hard disks. Once the installation was complete I logged into the server and found that drive D: is reporting ...
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How do I use OSX Lion Time Machine with Windows Home Server?
My wife and I have a mixed Windows and Mac household. A couple years ago I purchased a HP MediaSmart server with Windows Home Server on it. HP provided software to get Time Machine on Leopard to work ...
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How to setup RAID 5 - Windows Home Server
I am planning to install Windows Home Server 2011 on my new mini server. I have 3 x 2TB hard drives and another hard drive for the OS.
I can't find any tutorials on how set up RAID 5 on Windows Home ...
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Cannot remote desktop to Windows Server 2008 R2 by machine name
Recently installed Windows Home Server 2011. For those that don't know, it runs on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Unfortunately, I cannot remote desktop to box by machine name I gave it. I set the ...
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Router reporting failed admin login attempts from home server
I recently noticed in the logs of my home router that it relatively regularly lists the following entry:
[admin login failure] from source 192.168.0.160, Monday, June 20,2011 18:13:25
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Computer is connecting to Windows Home Server 2011 as HomeGroup user instead of the specified user
On my WHS 2011 server named "MEDIA-SRV", I have a shared folder named "Music" and a user named "HTPC". For the folder permissions, I have HTPC set as Read/Write and HomeGroup users set as Read.
From ...
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How to Turn Off Shadow Copies for Specific Folders/Files
I currently am using Windows Home Server 2011 and all of my shared folders (well, actually the volume that all of those shares are on) use the shadow copies of files. Is there a way to disable shadow ...
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Windows Home Server: Can't see my RAID 5?
Motherboard: ASUS A8N SLI-Deluxe
I've got a RAID 5 goin' on and there's no problem with my Windows 7 drive seeing the RAID.
But, I wanted to switch out my Windows 7 HDD for a fresh Windows Home ...
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Cannot add an usb disk to the storage pool in Windows Home server v1
Our WHSv1 file server is almost full, so I took an USB HDD that was lying around (ie: I was using it on another computer, data and partitions are there), and I went to the WHS console to add it to the ...
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I've Ripped my DVDs (Movies/TV Shows), Now How do I Manage Them?
I've been ripping my DVDs (main movie or episodes to MP4) to my Windows Home Server for streaming to my HTPC, and now that I have a decent amount stored I need good a way to manage them. I would ...
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Windows 7 laptop no longer connecting to Windows Home Server
When I got this laptop I set it up with a Windows Home Server connector, and it backed up perfectly for a few months; then suddenly it stopped being able to access the server by name. I can ping the ...
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Windows Home Server (WHS) has third blue blinking light for the last 48 hours
I know they say when the third light is blinking blue, sometimes that means that the server is running chkdsk or something and I should leave it.
I have left it for about 48 hours now and still ...
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Primary disk choice for Windows Home Server
I am about to rebuild my Windows Home Server. I have 3 hard disks that I am going to put in the server:
A. 1TB
B. 1.5TB
C. 2TB
Except for the size, the drives are identical. Which drive should I ...
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Regular Windows 7 Backup vs. Windows Home Server (WHS) Backup
I'm looking to set up a backup scheme for my household and was looking at the different options for backing up Windows.
I would like to backup to a network device (perhaps a WHS?). I also saw that ...
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How to set marked for backup on volume
I want to use Bitlocker with Windows Home Server but I have read that I need to make sure the volume is marked for backup. I am unclear on how I do this? I have searched around on my volume and do ...
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Windows Home Server is showing signs of death
I have a Windows Home Server (HP EX485 MediaSmart Home Server) and it started acting up about 4 weeks ago and a few days ago complained of a corrupt database and would I like to try and recover it? ...
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Data unaccessible from WHS drive
I had a Windows Home server machine that crashed. Before doing anything I decided to get data out of it. So I took the hard drive and connected it to Windows7 pc.
What I get is that I cannot access ...
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Changing Administrator password Windows Home Server
Is there a problem using Computer Management > Local User and Groups > Users to change the Administrator password in Windows Home Server? Is there a chance it will cause any issues with the system? ...
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How can you configure the uPnP server on windows home server?
I'm currently helping my parents with their home network set up while I'm home. I have a Synology NAS device which supports a uPnP server. I have a few MPEG-4 movies stored on the box, and simply ...
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iTunes freezing when adding new media to library
I have a macbook that I use to sync with my iPad. I want to start to get some of my media (music and movies) onto it. These files are located on a network share that is available through Finder. ...
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How to prevent Windows Home server waking for backup
Since changing the motherboard in my Windows home server it has been switching itself on every night to perform a scheduled backup.
I don't want this to happen though, I want to switch the server on ...
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HP MediaSmart server system disk full
I have a HP MediaSmart Server (EX 490) with Windows Home Server out of the box. It comes with a single 1.0 TB drive partioned 20 GB for the System disk. The system disk keeps filling up. I haven't ...
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Streaming Media Solution for the family
Can anyone suggest a good solution for sharing media resources in the home environment for a family of 5. Hardware currently in the home includes -
Windows Home Server
4 Laptops
1 desktop
3 xbox ...
