http://www.mediasmarthome.com?src=forumtopic_rss MediaSmart Home - Networking and Remote Access Forum Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:34:09 GMT admin@mediasmarthome.com MediaSmart Home 60 http://www.mediasmarthome.com/brand/hpsmart/community.gif http://www.mediasmarthome.com?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11062/Using-a-domain-name-outside-of-TZO.com/?src=forumtopic_rss 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? Networking and Remote Access Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:50:45 GMT RussM90210 http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11062/Using-a-domain-name-outside-of-TZO.com/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11051/Blinking-Blue-Server-Health/?src=forumtopic_rss 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... Networking and Remote Access Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:03:34 GMT karan13 http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11051/Blinking-Blue-Server-Health/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11025/Speeding-up-Photo-Web-share/?src=forumtopic_rss 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? Networking and Remote Access Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:06:25 GMT AWDMS6 http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11025/Speeding-up-Photo-Web-share/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11019/Certificate-Warning-through-TZO/?src=forumtopic_rss 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. Networking and Remote Access Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:22:48 GMT picahenry http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11019/Certificate-Warning-through-TZO/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11018/reconfigure-domain-name/?src=forumtopic_rss 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? Networking and Remote Access Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:13:12 GMT Tobbe http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11018/reconfigure-domain-name/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11015/64-bit-Vista-drive-not-appearing-in-network-neighborhood/?src=forumtopic_rss 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? Networking and Remote Access Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:03:59 GMT Jon_K http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11015/64-bit-Vista-drive-not-appearing-in-network-neighborhood/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11013/Using-Static-IP-instead-of-DHS-TZO.COM/?src=forumtopic_rss I'm brand new to this site and wonder if there is a way to use a domain name that I already have registered with the the HP Media Smart Server instead of getting a Dynamic DNS through TZO.COM. I have a dedicated static IP address and no restriction from my ISP on having a server. My TZO.COM registration will need to be renewed later this month and I would rather host my own domain name. Networking and Remote Access Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:32:10 GMT Craig45 http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11013/Using-Static-IP-instead-of-DHS-TZO.COM/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11004/RDC-problems/?src=forumtopic_rss hi, i don't know where to put this one. I installed the McAfee add-in that came with the smartserver. It came up hith a severe "health warning" almost immediately, as i could figure out the automatic scanning was disabled - but the services were running ok. went to the asap page to see if i could fina any info, and it told me that i did not have the firewall protection installed. Fine - install it then - but here's where something went wrong as i now can not access the server no matter how i try. RDC does not find the server, i can't ping it, cant access it with winVNC (whch were running ok before this), can't acess it with the WHS console and it's not visible in the network allthough when i look in my DHCP/router it has got an IP address, and by the way after severaL reboots and overnight running, the red health light is still on. what now...? Networking and Remote Access Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:55:45 GMT Hakan http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11004/RDC-problems/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10963/Remote-desktop-problem/?src=forumtopic_rss I would like to be able to use remote desktop from my work. I have no problem in logging in on the webshare and the server admin console. But when I try using remote desktop on my Vista machine connecting via my static IP I can't log in. Networking and Remote Access Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:24:06 GMT Kriller http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10963/Remote-desktop-problem/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10943/Setting-Domain-on-WHS/?src=forumtopic_rss I am tryin gto setup a domain name on my server in remote access tab but for some reason I keep getting an error. During Router configuration Everything is checked beside 1 point which is "configuring your router". This point I get an explanation mark against it However during the domain name setup I use the Windows live custom domain option, enter my hotmail credentails and then after a few minutes while it's thinking it gives back an unknown error. (0x80072eff) 80072eff Can anyone help why I get this? Networking and Remote Access Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:00:12 GMT r1cz http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10943/Setting-Domain-on-WHS/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10918/Certificate-issue/?src=forumtopic_rss Hi! I don't know if anyone could give me some insight into this weird behavior. I got my MediaSmart a few weeks ago, and it has been purring along flawlessly. Now though, something weird started out of nowhere: if I try to access the web interface via http://myservername/ , I get a certificate error. Looking at the certificate's details, it is a Go Daddy issued certificate which is only valid for myservername.homeserver.com. Back then, I had looked at it quite carefully: the certificate was some (seemingly) self issued certificate with a very long, randomly generated named (or so it looked like), and it was valid for myservername.homeserver.com, myservername, and some other that I forget. Basically, I could access the server from anywhere using whatever name and it worked (well, any of those 3 anyway), as long as the certificate was installed (and my understanding was that it got installed with the home server client). Now though, with that new certificate, its only valid for my homeserver.com address, which is awkward. Even more awkward is that this happened out of nowhere. Does anyone have any idea of what the hell happened? Thank you very much! Networking and Remote Access Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:52:23 GMT Shados http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10918/Certificate-issue/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10916/Remote-access-not-working/?src=forumtopic_rss Hi I've been trying all sorts to get the remote access working but still no luck. Can someone help? I have attached a screenshot of the error. I have and ADSL router Netgear model DG834N. I have setup a static IP address on the HP WHS I've tried forwarding the ports manually by using the firwall rules ets... I be very grateful for your help Networking and Remote Access Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:50:22 GMT r1cz http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10916/Remote-access-not-working/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10911/Desktop-Access/?src=forumtopic_rss I want to access my WHS desktop but not with RDC. I use to have a command (EXE) I ran at the START-RUN prompt that would get my right on my WHS desktop. In fact I had somehow configured it as a jump on my client desktop. I would just double click it and log into my WHS. I had to rebuild my computer and now I can't figure out how I did this. I dont want to configure and run RDC. The client and WHS are on the same home network and I just want to log on to the desktop of the WHS. It took me hours to stubble on how to do this on some forum and now I can't find it at all. Thanks Networking and Remote Access Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:06:04 GMT Freestone http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10911/Desktop-Access/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10897/Remote-acces-from-my-own-domain/?src=forumtopic_rss I just order my home server today and it should arrive within 3 days. Can I setup remote acces throug my own domain instead of using TZO. ? Networking and Remote Access Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:27:12 GMT Kriller http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10897/Remote-acces-from-my-own-domain/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10874/Help-Configuring-Remote-Access-Please-D-Link-DSL-2740B/?src=forumtopic_rss Hi All, I have been trying to set up my MediaServer for the last week (with and without sucess). I initially got it working with an old Linksys router (WAG54GS) i had lying around, but it was unreliable to the point of being useless! Sometimes it would work fine; then within a few hours (not changing anything) it would stop working. I read a few issues about these routers here and decided to get a new one, as there is no point having a remote server if every few days/hours you have to physically reset the equipment. Last night i bought a D-Link DSL-2740B (DKT-810) ADSL router. I have spent all of this morning trying to get it to work without sucess. At least with the old router I could occasionally get all the router tests 'ticked' and i would have remote access (if only for a few hours). But the new router fails every time on the same issues. I know the router supports UPnP and the 'Enable UpnP' box is ticked in the router configuration, but it still fails this test. I have also tried port forwarding to 80, 443 & 4125 but this makes no difference on... Networking and Remote Access Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:31:54 GMT n1k_ns http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10874/Help-Configuring-Remote-Access-Please-D-Link-DSL-2740B/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10869/Port-Forwarding-keeps-failing/?src=forumtopic_rss I have an HP 470 and a Linksys wrt150n wireless router. In the past, I would occassionally get a port-forwarding message about once a month. All I ever need to do is have WHS unconfigure it and then run setup and it seems to fix it. Since PP1, I'm running into this about every other day. Just today, it has failed twice in the past hour. I have absolutely no idea what port forwarding is. I just know that WHS doesn't like it when it fails. Is this an indication that my router is going bad? Thanks! DickDay Networking and Remote Access Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:08:20 GMT DickDay http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10869/Port-Forwarding-keeps-failing/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10803/Road-warrior-needing-offsite-backups/?src=forumtopic_rss I have done a little digging and am coming up blank on this one... I travel quite a bit and need to backup my data while away in case anything disasterous were to happen to my laptop. Does WHS/MediaSmart allow for offsite online automated backups? I am using XP and Vista (two travelling laptops.) I see the remote access from any internet connection which leads me to believe that remote bacup could be possible. ANY help here (official HP stance or work around) would be great. Thanks Networking and Remote Access Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:04:07 GMT crmsmith http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10803/Road-warrior-needing-offsite-backups/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10789/LAN-connection-problem/?src=forumtopic_rss I have a very weird scenario happenning, the only solution I can think of is to reinstall WHS but I don't want to lose the logs which would, hopefully, explain this. Any comments or ideas welcome Some background: Hardware EX475, 2 TB, 2 GIG Ram, upgraded processor - fixed IP address 1 Vista home notebook 1 XP pro notebook 1 desktop XP home PP1 applied (MS and HP updates). Not using firefly, mcafee or other media sharing apart from webshare. All has been working fine apart from not being able to get the IIS web pages up - I get the error 500 'server busy' prioblem thats been reported before. I've been troubleshooting this on and off for a few weeks now and started again on Tuesday morning. 1. all connected machines had successfully completed backups 2. at 9:00 am I was happily copying files to and from the server shares 3. I used toolkit to move all the logs to a folder on the shares 4. I enabled verbose logging for anything that might help with the IIS problem 5. I started changing router setting to see if it was a problem with port forwarding first 6. after about... Networking and Remote Access Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:55:14 GMT regmigrant http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10789/LAN-connection-problem/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10778/Mediasmart-Web-Site-Hosting/?src=forumtopic_rss Perhaps this is an obvious question but I'm looking for more information about the website hosting features available on the Mediasmart server. I've looked at the options you can setup within the builtin software but as much money as it takes to register a domain I don't want to be limited by what HP/Microsoft feels like letting me do. I'm looking for any info that describes the general capabilities of what can be done and software/resources that would let me set something up. Thanks everyone! -Walter Networking and Remote Access Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:35:40 GMT Walter B http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10778/Mediasmart-Web-Site-Hosting/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10664/Photo-Webshare-over-Internal-Network/?src=forumtopic_rss Hi, I am new to the home server. I have loaded in my photos to the Photo webshare and want to share them with my family so they can access it from the other 4 PCs on my home network. I have no need or desire to share it over the Internet. This is probbaly a really dumb question so i aplogise in advcance but can someone tell me how to do this ? Thanks Phil Networking and Remote Access Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:03:53 GMT PhilS http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10664/Photo-Webshare-over-Internal-Network/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss