Pedro Innecco

So you consider yourself a hardcore IT techie. There is no computer issue so far that you couldn’t sort.
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The HP MediaSmart server comes with some handy add-ons, such as the iTunes server (for those who have an IPOD) and an addition to the web server called Photo Webshare, which allow users to create and share pictures through the web, straight from their Windows Home Server (WHS). Sounds cool, right? Well, not for me it doesn’t.

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Feeling like getting a Windows Home Server (WHS)? I must say, the product really rocks! Well at least in theory. In practice, the product has been overwhelmed with bugs. I am not only talking about the well known data corruption issue. There are other issues that could really drive you nuts. I’ve been using the WHS without any issues so far, but that is because I am only making use of 40% of what I originally wanted to do with it.

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I have been eagerly waiting for the Wireless-N standard to be rectified so I can finally change my home router for a new one. I must say that during the years I had enough of Linksys routers. Although owned by CISCO, I’ve been quite disappointed with the level of features provided by my WAG54G router. However, while browsing www.linksysinfo.org I found about two quite useful configuration pages which seem to be ‘hidden’ in the router. In particular, there is a page to configure DHCP reservation; a feature that I’ve been missing badly!

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If you are using Enterprise Search for a network location accessible through webDAV, you will find that clicking on search results will try to open the results in Internet Explorer. Here is a quick method to add an option for users to open links as Web
Folders.

NOTE1: This only works in Internet Explorer 5 or above
NOTE2: You will need SharePoint Designer for this tutorial
NOTE3: You must have a knowledge of html (understand tags, elements and attributes)

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One of the first things I decided to do with my Windows Home Server was to install a VNC server on it. VNC is an open source solution (i.e.: free) that allows remote access to a computer in a similar way that of Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). However, because my Windows Home Server is a headless computer which can only be accessed remotely with Microsoft RDP, the installation of VNC is not as straightforward as it seems. In this documentation I’ll explain how I successfully installed VNC on my Windows Home Server.

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