{"id":956,"date":"2021-09-22T12:39:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T12:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/?page_id=956"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:59:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:59:21","slug":"networking-advice-and-tips-forums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/networking-advice-and-tips-forums\/","title":{"rendered":"Networking Advice and Tips in the PracticallyNetworked Forums"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Practically Networked Discussion Forum Spotlight we take a look at some of our members’ computer and networking questions and provide you with an easy-to-digest overview of several ongoing or resolved networking issues.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Up for discussion this week is the beginnings of a knowledge-based thread on Windows Home Server (WHS) that includes resources and reviews, followed by some helpful advice offered to a forum member having problems with his WRT54GT router. Lastly, we also spotted an older, but excellent, discussion on file sharing with Windows XP. Windows XP sharing has always been a hot topic and this discussion is a great FAQ for those who are encountering issues with getting XP systems to talk.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Practically Networked Forums Spotlight highlights several of the most active or interesting topics from the more than 27,000 posts in the\u00a0Practically Networked forums<\/a>. From here you can follow the links to each discussion of interest to offer your own advice, or to ask your own question.<\/span><\/p>\n

Practically Networked Forum Statistics\u00a0<\/span>For November 12, 2007<\/span><\/b>
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Our Last\u00a0<\/b><\/span>Count –\u00a0<\/span>October 29, 2007<\/span><\/b>
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This Week’s Highlighted Topics
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\nPractically Networked Forums > Practically Networked > Applications\/Software
\nThread: Windows Home Server<\/b>
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If you’ve been considering using Windows Home Server (WHS), this PracticallyNetworked forum thread offers a discussion on the product and how to use it, plus offers links to help pages and reviews.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Windows Home Server (WHS) is a new product from Microsoft. I have been beta testing it and using it since the beginning of this year. I am not a WHS expert but can offer my experience and opinions on it.<\/p>\n

I am using WHS on a home network of mixed wired\/wireless PCs and laptops of various OS, with ~1 TB of storage. WHS is new, and like all new systems has some problems but is basically stable and great potential for the home.<\/p>\n

Overall, I would recommend considering it for a home network to provide backup of PCs and centralized storage.<\/p>\n

You can read more about WHS\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span>Anyone with their own experience \/ opinions please join in.
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Microsoft Windows Home Server was also covered this week on the PracticallyNetworked.com Web site,\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We used it for about three weeks. It’s unbelievable how easy home server is to set-up and use, even if you know next to nothing about servers, networking and so on. We’re using Vista on the PCs and XP on the laptops. For the server we used a P4 3.1GB box with 3GB memory, 2 harddrives (an 80 and a 230 GB).<\/p>\n

I think those who are concerned about back-ups and those who don’t yet have a backup regime in place will be especially interested in WHS (which lets you backup ten PCs).
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FYI…<\/p>\n

The Microsoft Windows Home Server forums are\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I just converted my old desktop into a WHS box this last Thursday. It really is a quite impressive, IMHO, piece of software. My WHS is a Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz box, 512 Meg RAM with a 160 Gig and a 20 Gig hard drive.<\/p>\n

The WHS backs up my wife’s XP Pro machine and my Vista Ultimate laptop automatically on a daily basis, something I never had in the past. I also setup a remote access account and privileges for my brother (who lives in Florida) and myself. My brother has access to shared folders\/files while I have access to shared folders\/files and my own specifically owned folder.<\/span>He also has a WHS running and I have similar privileges on his machine \u2014 i.e., access to shared folders\/files only. My wife has access only to shared folders\/files and her specifically owned folder on the WHS. She does not have remote access privileges.<\/p>\n

Remote Desktop access is easy and fast to my wife’s XP Pro machine if I need it.<\/p>\n

All access to my WHS and shared folders\/files or Remote Desktop to access my wife’s XP Pro machine is via a Web-based interface that requires two ports to be opened on any firewall\/router the WHS is behind (ie. TCP Port 443 and TCP Port 4125).<\/p>\n

You can either get a free fully qualified domain name (FQDN) from Microsoft to remotely call your WHS or as in my case use an existing DynDNS FQDN. I use a DynDNS FQDN simply because my current Belkin F5D7230-4 broadband router has built-in support for DynDNS. My brother uses a MS supplied FQDN.
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