windows home server
My company issued me a new Dell Latitude E6400. It’s a fine machine, and I like it very much. Yesterday our system tech hands me the machine brand spanking new with our base company image on it (Windows 7 Enterprise – 64 bit). My plan was take the image on this machine and copy it to the solid state hard drive that I have in my personal laptop. I don’t need this Lenovo T61, but it’s got a blazing fast SSD in it and I want to use that – not this old school SATA thing that came w/ my...
Some time ago I wrote a post called Base Personal Image. I wanted to write an update to that, but decided it would be nice to have it in it’s original date for historical purposes. So, I’m writing a new post and stamping it with the year. Here’s the topology of my setup The staple of my setup are Windows Live Mesh (this replaced Folder Share for me – now called Windows Live Synch). This is what ties everything together for me. Core Windows Vista SP1...
I was able to restore my connectivity to the home server with the step described here. I was then able to connect to all the file shares and perform backups. However, I was still not able to connect to WHS via the Console: Additional tools exist for troubleshooting these problems. Go download the Windows Home Server Toolkit and install it. Then launch ConnectorTroubleshooter.exe at C:\Program Files\Windows Home Server\Toolkit\ It will give you a nice (ugly) report of issues it detects, with links to MS help documentation: In my...
I recently scraped this Linksys for this D-Link. That Linksys was one of the early Draft N models, and it was flakey from day one and I should have returned it. I finally had enough, booted it for the D-Link. I’m much happier now. Not sure I’ll ever go back to Linksys. As soon as I was up and running with my new router I discovered that none of the machines on my network were connected to the WHS even though it appeared to be online and running fine. IP information about the location...