MS Windows Home Server

Brent Friedman developer of many add-ins including TV Manager and WHS Mobile has written a great tutorial on how to do Time Machine backups from the Mac to your Windows Home Server, just like the HP MediaSmart Servers do.

Brent’s guide takes you through enabling the backups to shares, how to create a working sparsebundle file and how to configure Time Machine.

You can read all the details here.

If you are the owner of a Acer Aspire easyStore H340 then you may want to check out a post over at Jesseweb.com on how to change the default Acer splash screen page to a login page more to your liking.

The easy 10 step tutorial can be found here.

The Home Server Land series on Securing Your WHS & Network is now at part 13, and this installment is about FTP Hosting Threats.

As well as explaining what the FTP protocol is, the article explains about FTP Servers and why you shouldn’t  install FTP add-ins or use the WHS as an FTP server.

You can read all about it here.

Windows Home Server enthusiast Scott Duff has updated our original 2 year old post on How to Install uTorrent on your WHS Box, which of course is the ideal place for Torrents to live as most of our Home Servers are on 24/7.

You can read Scott’s tutorial here.

The Home Server Show website is reporting that users of the 64 bit version of the Windows 7 Release Candidate (Build 7100) are having a problem connecting their machine to their Windows Home Server.

Although the connector software installs correctly the client then alerts you that your Windows 7 machine and WHS passwords are not the same, although they are.  When trying to enter the passwords in the prompt to fix the problem, the WHS password is not accepted.

A solution was posted in Microsoft’s WHS Software forum by user "Dan" which corrects the problem and is duplicated on The Home Server Show website here for you.

The securing your WHS and network series of articles continues over at HomeServerLand with part 10 "HTTPS and Secure Web Hosting Threats".

This part looks at how to configure the router’s HTTPS rule,  how to configure the user’s remote access and the home server’s secured domain, as well as the configuration to address threats and attacks from the internet.

You can read it here.

If you would like to run a subversion server off of Windows Home Server then Scott Hanselman has the details.

Website Lifehacker describes a subversion server as:

Think of Subversion as a wiki-like repository for your files. Each time you make a change to a file or group of files that you’re happy with, you can commit those changes to your Subversion repository. If you don’t like where the changes got you, Subversion can compare your current version with any previously-committed version and pick out the best of the best so you never have to worry about finding your way back to a good or working version of a file.

Scott takes us through the details to setup and configure Visual SVN Server and even how to get an External DNS name if you require one.

You can get the full details from here.

MediaSmartHome have a guide on how to convert and stream your home movies with the HP MediaSmart Server.

The 4 page guide explains how to firstly get your home movies on to your PC and how to create conversion folders for simplicity. You are then shown how to use the HP Video Converter to do the business to your home movies.

You can read the guide here.

The Digital Lifestyle.Com has details of how to add your Windows Home Server shared folders to the syncing software Live Mesh.

This could to useful if your Recorded TV folders are not on the same network as you could then get them synced over the Internet with Windows Home Server.

Installing Mesh on Windows Home Server is very much like installing on a desktop system but with a couple of extra steps which are explained in this tutorial, which you can read here.