Windows Home Server Megathread 2.0 - This is why we can't have nice things

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Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

Anybody have a mirror(s) for the vail beta? Downloading 4gb at 33k from the official link aint gonna cut it.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2010 22:30

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 20:32

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

Mr. Clark2 posted:

Anybody have a mirror(s) for the vail beta? Downloading 4gb at 33k from the official link aint gonna cut it.

Somebodys got to have this.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2010 01:32

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

Would this suffice as a motherboard/processor for running WHS?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.564797

# ¿ Dec 8, 2010 03:57

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

SneakyCracker posted:

Soooooo... my WHS box won't boot. After disabling the automatic restart on failure, I find out that I have an Unmountable Boot Volume. Before I declare my OS drive toast, I'd like to try repairing the MBR, as I've seen this restore drives in this state to a healthy working state in the past.

My problem is this - how the hell do I get into a recovery console on a WHS machine to do this? Using the install disc, there is no "press R to start the recovery console" option like there is on other OS discs. Being that WHS is based on Server 2003 SBS, I gotta imagine there is a recovery console in some form for it.

I've also tried using a Hiren's Boot CD in the hopes of using one of the MBR repair utilities it contains, but thats a no-go as well.

Anybody who's a bit more knowledgeable in WHS than I am know how to do this? Or am I just hosed here?

Thanks.

The beta that I downloaded earlier today included an .iso named SrvRecovery.iso. Do you have that? It sounds like it's probably the server recovery disc.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2010 05:55

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

TDD_Shizzy posted:

I still dont see a feature that WHS has that you cant get with a 2008 r2 machine?

With that being said, I do really like WHS because its plug and play, but then again, I only use it for drive extender and duplication. My server 2008 r2 box handles backups, web hosting among other things.

Whats the price difference between server 2008 (and the CALs) vs. WHS?

# ¿ Dec 10, 2010 02:42

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

I'm about to buy a copy of WHS but have a couple questions first. Is the one listed here the one I want?
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Server-System-Builder/dp/B001E5Q8CO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1291944760&sr=8-3
Secondly, are the power packs free? Or do those have to be purchased separately? Lastly, the product that I linked to above, that includes the client software as well, right? Sorry for the dumb questions but the link isnt very descriptive.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2010 04:16

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

Any known incompatibilities or issues with WHS v1 and Samsung Spinpoint f3 hard drives?

# ¿ Jan 7, 2011 04:15

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

What's the best anti-virus software available for WHS (preferably free)?

# ¿ Jan 17, 2011 04:42

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

Yeah, I'm getting a lot of mixed information regarding MSE. Some say "it works...but isnt supported so use at your own risk" to "it wont even install".

# ¿ Jan 17, 2011 05:31

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

univbee posted:

Seconding this, I think this is the ONLY solution designed for WHS. It's not even very expensive, depending on the size of your network you can get a 10-computer license (which is WHS's max supported clients number anyway) for like the price of 2 regular licenses (i.e. you get one "WHS" license and ten "client" licenses you can deploy and manage from the WHS interface).

But it's $40 per year :smith:

I wouldnt at all mind paying $40 once...but annually? Supposedly ClamWin works on WHS as well. I guess I'll try that out after my demo period for Avast ends.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2011 03:41

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

modeski posted:

I've just received the WHS1 OEM DVD, but have no optical drive on my WHS box. Originally I planned to copy the DVD to a bootable USB and install from there, but I've run into a problem - I can't use the DISKPART utility to create a bootable USB drive because I only have Windows XP. XP only recognises USB drives as removable volumes, not disks.

I do have an external USB hard drive. Would this be a suitable alternative? If I was to make this bootable using DISKPART on XP, would it then be a matter of just copying the WHS DVD onto that, hooking it up to the WHS and setting it as the first boot device? Any help or pointers in this area would be much appreciated.

EDIT: Reworded.

You should be fine using the USB HD. Just follow the instructions here to set it up: http://wiki.wegotserved.com/index.php?title=Install_Windows_From_a_USB_Flash_Drive

# ¿ Jan 22, 2011 16:26

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

modeski posted:

EDIT: Is the simplest way just to disconnect all drives other than the system drive, install the OS then reconnect the other drives and add them to the storage pool?

Yep. Install the OS, then reconnect all the other drives afterwards.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2011 19:58

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

This isnt really WHS specific, but its happening to me on my WHS machine so I'll post it here. I used a scheduled task to run a program called WhsClientBackupNotifier every day at 3:30 to send me an email letting me know about the status of my backups. These are sent via the windows SMTP service installed on my server. The first few days this ran without any issues...then I stopped getting the emails. I checked my spam folder, not there either. I started going through logs on the server and could see the job kicking off and completing each day, but I still wasnt receiving any emails. I next looked at the system event log and noticed that at 3:30:04 every day I received the follwing warning: "Message delivery to the host '72.14.213.27' failed while delivering to the remote domain 'gmail.com' for the following reason: The connection was dropped by the remote host". Now, I'm assuming that gmail has blocked my ISPs (time warner cable) range of IP addresses, probably due to spam/bot activity in the past. Any way of fixing this?

# ¿ Jan 29, 2011 03:23

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

I'm hoping that MS works the new Win8 Storage Spaces feature into the next version of WHS. If/when they do, I'll ditch my install of WHS v1 and migrate to that. For now, sticking with v1, because it just works.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2012 06:58

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

My WHS v1 machine has been running just fine for over a year now, but suddenly I'm having a problem with the backup from my win7 machine. The backup has been running for 2 days now. Prior backups were taking in the neighborhood of 5-10 minutes. I've cancelled the backup, did a cleanup/repair on the database on the server, and ran chkdsk on the win7 machine. Anybody seen this before and know how to fix it?

*edit* Disregard. I reset the switch that both machines are plugged into and backups are working normally again.

Mr. Clark2 fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Aug 20, 2012

# ¿ Aug 18, 2012 18:57

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

EC posted:

What magic do I need to put on a Macbook Pro so it can see a WHSv1 box? I know nothing about Macs.

What do you mean by "see"?

# ¿ Feb 2, 2013 20:42

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

Anybody had any luck getting win8 pro workstations to be accessed remotely via the "Computers" page in WHS v1's remote access? My workstation shows up in the list, but shows up as "Access disabled". Remote access is in fact enabled on the workstation, and the "Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication" box is unchecked, and my user account is listed as having access to the machine. I can also remote into the workstation from another machine on the LAN without any issue.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2013 05:42

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

Anybody have a download link to an .iso of the first version of WHS? I need to reinstall but my disc is long gone (I've moved 3 times). Googling gets me nowhere. Not asking for any serials or warezish type BS, I have a legit key already.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2014 18:28

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 20:32

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

FCKGW posted:

I pulled this URL from the MSDN site http://goo.gl/dt3m8r

Thanks, that worked perfectly

# ¿ Feb 27, 2014 23:42

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