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Merry Home Server-mess

Autor brendon | 20.12.2007 | Category HomeServer, TechStuff

Well rumour has it that Santa Gates will be delivering a much awaited gift in our home server stockings a few days after Christmas. For all those running home server, your Christmas’s may just come on January 7th…

Happy holidays everyone, be safe on the roads and I’ll catch up with you in the new year. :-)

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Brendon

Increasing Web Server Timeout

Autor brendon | 19.12.2007 | Category HomeServer, TechStuff

I found these instructions buried in the WHS Remote Access Technical Brief, You would use these instructions if you wanted to keep remote sessions active for longer periods of time. Due to the bandwidth limitations in AU, file downloads of 50mb can take over 20 min on slow connections (Because the file is uploaded from your house).

For the instructions,

Pictures on WHS

Autor brendon | 18.12.2007 | Category HomeServer, MediaCenter, TechStuff

My only biggest complaint with WHS was that there is no simple function for displaying photo galleries. Sure you can see your files remotely and if you store your photos in a logical file structure AND name them all individually you can easily find what you are looking for.  For all the rest of us, we are forced to log in, navigate to the share and randomly look through pictures until you find the one you want to show your friend. All through the BETA program I was on the lookout for plug-ins that would give me a simple photo gallery function that would render the photo’s strait from my directory structure.

So far I have found two add-ins that seem to work quite well. Both have a slightly different aim and features but both are very well written. For all the Goss,

Show Home Server on VISTA Network Map

Autor brendon | 18.12.2007 | Category HomeServer, TechStuff

I stumbled across HomeServerHacks.com today and found a few interesting articles. One of the more useful articles posted is a step-by-step guide to install the VISTA network map protocol (LLTDR). Head over to HomeServerHacks to check it out.