By Philip Churchill on May 26th, 2009
Sync WHS with Live Mesh
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.
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I’ve done this with my own WHS, but the challenge is that the Mesh sync app is designed to run as an interactive desktop application (it does not work when run as a service). I have not found a good way to get Mesh to start up automatically; every time my WHS installs updates and restarts, it takes me a while to discover this, and then I have to log in to the console and restart Mesh.
If anyone has any suggestions on a better way to do this, I’m all ears.
I have a similar problem as dave, i set Moe.exe and moemonitor.exe to run as a service but it will not work. The only way i can think of is to leave it logged in at the desktop, witch isn’t the way the server is supposed to be left running.
My server always auto-logs in, so Mesh has been working fine as the article describes.
But recentyl I get the message “Live Mesh failed to start” and no amount of restarts helps. This only happens with WHS and not any of my PCs. Srange.
I come across that error from time to time, too. Usually have to re-install Mesh when that happens. =(