Windows Home Server - experience?

[Guest joe]

Has anyone tried it? Now, at home, i have one XP machine that serves

for backup (for other PCs and laptops), for p2p and as file server. It

all works very good. Is there any good reason for installing Windows

Home Server instead of XP on that machine? Do i get some new

functionality?

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: Windows Home Server - experience?

 

Hello Joe,

 

Start here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx

 

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/WindowsHomeServer/

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/community.mspx

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

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> Has anyone tried it? Now, at home, i have one XP machine that serves

> for backup (for other PCs and laptops), for p2p and as file server. It

> all works very good. Is there any good reason for installing Windows

> Home Server instead of XP on that machine? Do i get some new

> functionality?

>

[Guest joe]

Re: Windows Home Server - experience?

 

This features look nice:

 

"Remote Access Gateway - Allows remote access to any connected PC on

the network over the Internet." I don't have to use other software.

 

"Centralized Backup - Allows backup up to 10 PCs, using Single Instance

Store technology to avoid multiple copies of the same file, even if

that file exists on multiple PCs."

 

 

This scares me:

 

"Data redundancy - Guards against a single drive failure by duplicating

data across multiple drives." It would be bad if Win Home Server

carshes and i can't access that data from bootable Windows PE. I hope

data is easy to acces if i take hdd out of Home Server and connect it

to other pc.

 

"Expandable Storage - Provides a unified single and easily expandable

storage space, removing the need for drive letters." Same as above.