Remote Access to Files and PCs

re: Remote Access to Files and PCs

Jason_Wilkerson — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:52:49 GMT

A question I've had since hearing about this RDP access via the web is how you will handle users with dynamic IPs from their ISP... Is there a dynamic DNS provider they will have to use or will Home Server have a running process that updates some remote DNS server somewhere with the new DHCP address they receive? I'm going to take a stab and say that this will affect most of Microsoft's market for Home Server...

re: Remote Access to Files and PCs

MonocularJack — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:17:17 GMT

The biggest question in my mind is, can you remotely connect to machines that don't have Remote Desktop?

For example, I'm sure a lot of people are going to have Vista Home, Home Premium or non-Pro XP installed instead of Ultimate, yet as far as I know only Vista Ultimate, Vista Business and XP Pro allow Remote Desktop.

If I can't connect to *all* machines on my home network then this remote connect ability loses a lot of it's power.

re: Remote Access to Files and PCs

dariena — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:35:12 GMT

No MonocularJack you can't remote in to PC's running the home flavor of the OS. I can remote in to my XP Pro machine, but not my XP Home machine. XP Home wasn't give the ability to host RDP connections... it makes no sense that a Windows HOME Server product can't remote in to an Xp HOME product or a Vista HOME product.

Come on MS this is an easy one to resolve.

re: Remote Access to Files and PCs

blowdart — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:53:23 GMT

And remote access is the one thing I can't get to work. At all. My XP Pro box is always marked as "unsupported" in the web interface. Really bizarre.

It's also a shame that you can't manually register 2003 boxes for this; as a geek I have 3 Win2k3 boxes at home, and the ability to use WHS as a TS gateway to get into all my machines would be incredibly useful.

re: Remote Access to Files and PCs

MonocularJack — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:55:07 GMT

dariena, that's what I was afraid of. The entire reason I haven't upgraded from MCE to Vista Home Premium is that I run MCE headless and since Home Premium doesn't support RDP I'm out of luck. No way I'm paying for Ultimate to sit on a machine that doesn't even have a monitor.

They are going to have to address this, like you said, a HOME server should be able to work with all the other HOME products.

re: Remote Access to Files and PCs

jemartel — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:41:56 GMT

Hi All,

I have just downloaded and configured a WHS and have successfully connected an older Windows XP Pro. laptop to that server and performed its 1st backup.

I was originally concerned about the lack of wireless connectivity support for the WHS, since the hardware utilized a Belkin 54gwireless nic, but reluctantly I connected that long CAT5 cable to the built-in nic on the motherboard and it was done.

The only issue I had was creating the Bootable WHS Connect CD's and WHS DVD utilizing VISTA Ultimate. I quickly found a product online ISORecovery? to take care of that issue.

My question is: The Reviewer's Guide for WHS Beta2 states on page 16, that you can register for a free internet address (e.g. <yourname>.HomeServer.com) so that you can remotely access your home server using your own personalized internet address....

Where or what is the proper URL for this? HomeServer.com does not link to any registration site.

LiveNode.Com is going away ...

Windows Home Server Team Blog — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:12:52 GMT

During the initial beta of Windows Home Server, the team setup a test domain for the Dynamic DNS services