MediaSmart Home - Networking and Remote Access

The HP MediaSmart Server and Apple's Mac OS X

HP — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:33:38 GMT

While the HP MediaSmart Server is largely targeted to households with operating systems running Microsoft Windows, Mac users can still take advantage of many of the important features of the server. Introduction The HP MediaSmart Server is geared towards home users that need to manage, store, share, and protect an ever-increasing amount of digital content. Precious and often irreplaceable photos, music, videos, and other valuable documents are often scattered on various computers around the house or on remote web pages somewhere on the Internet. Plus, a growing number of households are using their computers to manage their finances, and keep valuable “life” documents such as wills, home inventories, and medical records. The desire to easily share your digital entertainment media and protect valuable documents demands a centralized repository that promotes sharing while providing protection from data loss. The HP MediaSmart Server is an excellent solution for the dilemma of managing a home’s digital resources. It seamlessly supports up to ten PCs over the household network, providing file sharing services, supporting web-based photo sharing, automatically backing up the PCs and as a center for digital entertainment (e.g., streaming media). Importantly, it also supports remote access to files and PCs from anywhere...

Using a domain name outside of TZO.com

RussM90210 — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:50:45 GMT

I have a custom domain name parked at GoDaddy.com. I want to use this domain name that I already have paid for as a means to remotely access my Mediasmart Server. My current free one year domain name is expiring at TZO.com. I don't want to renew that domain name but it appears that the Mediasmart server only works with TZO supplied domains. How do I get my HP Mediasmart Server to stop pointing to TZO.com and point to my new domain name that is not part of the TZO system?

Blinking Blue Server Health

karan13 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:03:34 GMT

I am hoping someone can help me figure out what I can do in this scenario. I have a HP EX470 with 2 HDs and 2 USB Drives. Now usually there is no problem, but what happens once in a while is that my network will drop and all of a sudden the blue blinking server light comes up. If my network comes back online, the light doesn't stop blinking. I also then have to do a hard reboot and it just keeps blinking. To fix this problem I sometimes have to leave the server off for 24 hours and then it comes back online and then basically this entire thing happens again and again (every couple of weeks). Does anyone have any ideas. I have already called into HP and what they did was they gave me another chassis and that still didn't solve the problem. I can't seem to figure it out and am hoping the community can give me some ideas. I was thinking about doing a server restore, but am worried that the blue blinking light will happen during the restore and then I will be stuck. Is there anything I can do, such as connect...

Speeding up Photo Web share

AWDMS6 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:06:25 GMT

Well I've had my Media Smart server for over a month now and overall I'm happy with my system. The only complaint I get it is from friends and family when they log into the web share they say that it is slow. I've logged in a couple times and noticed it as well. Now I don't expect it to be like "photo bucket" but is there things that I could do to speed it up?

Certificate Warning through TZO

picahenry — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:22:48 GMT

I just got my new server set up and all is going well except I get a certificate warning when trying to connect to the webshare. I registered the free domain/DNS with TZO that HP offers. I have had a pay one with DynDNS and was wondering how to configure the machine with that DNS. I really don't care about clicking through the warning screen personally but family members are a bit freaked out and think it's going to cause the end of the world or something....so they won't go see the freakin photos I posted...no matter how much I try to convince them that it is okay. Argggh :-) Any help getting rid of the nag screen would be greatly appreciated. And my family won't be freaked out about seeing photos of their grand kids...well maybe. Also any way to modify the websites that are built in? Maybe personalize them a bit? I have just started delving into the inner workings of the WHS op system so am not all that familiar with it yet.

reconfigure domain name

Tobbe — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:13:12 GMT

I accidentally unconfigured my domain name, i have a tzo custom domain name, when i try to reconfigure the with the same options it wont let me use my old domainname, how can i configure the homeserver to use the domain?

Know Who's Peeping Your Pics - 11-19 - 11-25

MediaSmartHome Team — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:00:01 GMT

Grab a stack of photos from your last family vacation, then flag someone down on the street and hand them over. What? You would never do that? Sound a little too crazy? Well guess what... people do it every single day. Think about it. Uploading your most personal photos to a photo sharing service isn't really any different than giving a random stranger your vacation pictures. First of all, you put a log of faith into the service by expecting your digital memories to stay secure. Second, if you don't take advantage of the privacy options available to you (if available at all), anyone with a web connection... even strangers, wackos, psychos, and weirdos alike can browse through your personal pictures. Can't you feel they're googly eyes peering at you? Fortunately, the HP MediaSmart Server can help. Photo Webshare is a new way of managing and sharing photos. Not only does it give users the ability to upload and share pictures to anywhere with an Internet connection, but it also ensures the photos are stored safe and sound on a device inside your own home (instead of on a web site somewhere). Having it on the household network means that...

64 bit Vista, drive not appearing in network neighborhood

Jon_K — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:03:59 GMT

As the title says... The MSS has been assigned to my workgroup and I can manually using the UNC get it to map a network drive to a folder on the MSS. I can not see the MSS as a "computer" in the network. It does show up as the PVConnect media server, and the Windows Media Connect server. I'm not getting drive letter access to the drive like I can get with my XP Pro box. Is this a limitation of the Vista 64 implementation? I really hate to have to map a drive to each folder... Suggestions?