2007 October 26 « MS Windows Home Server

Mac Leopard and WHS do NOT Play Nicely

October 26, 2007 — Philip Churchill

On the SuperSite for Windows back in January 2007 Todd Headrick, the WHS Product Planner told Paul Thurrott in his Windows Home Server Preview that Mac users could access the WHS shared folders as they would any other Windows share and that WHS would be a great back-end store for Time Machine. The name of the new backup feature in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Microsoft’s own WHS page said that “Mac users have the ability to save to and remotely access Windows Home Server”.

But despite what was said you cannot use your Windows Home Server shared storage as a backup target for Time Machine.
Cristopher Price explains that:

Apple killed SMB (Windows Sharing) support for Time Machine, that’s what. So, basically, Time Machine can’t see the Windows Home Server shares… or any other PC drive shares. Support has been scaled back to AFP (Mac OS) file sharing only.

So, It was planned to be in there but due to bugs and crashes SMB was withdrawn at the last minute from Apple’s new Mac OS X Leopard.

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avast! WHS Edition AntiVirus Updated to 3 Beta

October 26, 2007 — Philip Churchill

Out a couple of days later than expected is beta 3 of avast! WHS Edition. The first dedicated antivirus add-in for Windows home Server.

This latest beta version 4.7.18, 10/16/2007 has:

Yet another attempt to set the firewall exceptions correctly on all OS’s
GUI improvements (WHS Console)
Minor fixes
Updates in the AV engine (new unpackers etc.)
Still missing: help files, and full localization of the WHS Edition (although some languages are already available in beta 3)

Both console and client machine downloads are available and support is available from the avast! 4 WHS section of the avast! forums.

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Firefly Add-In

October 26, 2007 — Philip Churchill

Firefly is an open source media server software that enables you to stream music from the Roku Soundbridge and iTunes. Developer Nic Bedford has ported the current windows system tray application from Firefly into an add-in that can be run directly from the Windows Home Server console.