Things are going from strength to strength with the Home Server. It's all up & running now on the network. Installed all Windows Updates via Remote Desktop & installed the Office Viewers but I think I'll leave it at that on the software side of things.
Ran a last sync with SyncToy of my music & videos to my external hard drive & connected it to server. Did this as it'd be much faster than transferring it all over wireless. Will get around to photos later.
I've installed the connector on my desktop & the notebook. Had some bother with seeing the server on the notebook but realised I had to allow access in the OneCare firewall. Once that was sorted, everything worked fine.
I may have a go at enabling remote access this evening.
23 May 2007
22 May 2007
Home Server Success
Finally, some success with the Home Server.
A colleague in work had a spare SATA cable so that saved me the time & annoyance of switching it from my desktop. Yay!
Our housemate managed to burn the ISO successfully to DVD & it booted correctly. Yay again!
Then I had problems with the SATA driver. Boo.
I thought the one from ASUS did not support Server 2003 so I got one from Silicon Image but that wouldn't stick during the "Specify additional drivers" phase (kept re-requesting it). Went back to the original ASUS driver which would stick but I got a blue screen of death on reboot.
After trying this a few times with partitioning & formatting I realised that even though I specified the SATA driver during the Server 2003 GUI install, I had to specify it again during the blue non-GUI install after reboot. Once I specified it again, everything installed as usual.
Had a quick test to see if I could detect the server on the network which failed but I just realised this morning that the OS may not have the drivers for the ethernet ports & I didn't even bother to check last night. Got them & ready to try again this evening.
At least it's only network stuff now.
A colleague in work had a spare SATA cable so that saved me the time & annoyance of switching it from my desktop. Yay!
Our housemate managed to burn the ISO successfully to DVD & it booted correctly. Yay again!
Then I had problems with the SATA driver. Boo.
I thought the one from ASUS did not support Server 2003 so I got one from Silicon Image but that wouldn't stick during the "Specify additional drivers" phase (kept re-requesting it). Went back to the original ASUS driver which would stick but I got a blue screen of death on reboot.
After trying this a few times with partitioning & formatting I realised that even though I specified the SATA driver during the Server 2003 GUI install, I had to specify it again during the blue non-GUI install after reboot. Once I specified it again, everything installed as usual.
Had a quick test to see if I could detect the server on the network which failed but I just realised this morning that the OS may not have the drivers for the ethernet ports & I didn't even bother to check last night. Got them & ready to try again this evening.
At least it's only network stuff now.
18 May 2007
Home Server
My grand plans to set up a home server in the new house have gotten off to a lumpy start.
I ordered a 500GB SATA hard drive from Komplett which promptly arrived. Unfortunately, it had no leads whatsoever (fair enough, I suppose). One of the lads in work was able to pick me up a SATA power cable the same day so I figured all was good.
The reason I thought this was because I thought I had one in the house, but I didn't. I'll have to wait until we're over in Finglas to get one or buy one (wait methinks).
The biggest problem is the OS. I want to put Windows Home Server on it but I can't write it successfully to DVD. I tried numerous CD/DVD burning software but all failed & now I have 6 or so DVD coasters. The closest I got was extracting the files from the ISO & burning them to the DVD with Vista's own software but the DVD would not boot at startup.
Anyway, I'll figure it out. Only a few bits to fix.
I ordered a 500GB SATA hard drive from Komplett which promptly arrived. Unfortunately, it had no leads whatsoever (fair enough, I suppose). One of the lads in work was able to pick me up a SATA power cable the same day so I figured all was good.
The reason I thought this was because I thought I had one in the house, but I didn't. I'll have to wait until we're over in Finglas to get one or buy one (wait methinks).
The biggest problem is the OS. I want to put Windows Home Server on it but I can't write it successfully to DVD. I tried numerous CD/DVD burning software but all failed & now I have 6 or so DVD coasters. The closest I got was extracting the files from the ISO & burning them to the DVD with Vista's own software but the DVD would not boot at startup.
Anyway, I'll figure it out. Only a few bits to fix.
11 May 2007
Long time no post.
Been busy with all the moving into the new house then camping last weekend. Added to that, we don't have broadband sorted yet.
Have the house nearly sorted, finished off our room last night.
Will move things around in the attic next week & have to pick up DVD shelf & clothes horse.
The excitement of it all.
Have the house nearly sorted, finished off our room last night.
Will move things around in the attic next week & have to pick up DVD shelf & clothes horse.
The excitement of it all.
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