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Windows Home Server Details

Posted by kdawson on from the just-the-storage-ma'am dept.

phorest writes "Perhaps Microsoft read the comments from the Slashdot community on Windows Home Server? In any event Microsoft is opening up WHS for users to construct their own system after all; though I'd like to see the price of this OS release before making the jump. From the review: "At the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week... Microsoft previewed its long-awaited Windows Home Server product, a Windows Server 2003 R2-based server for consumers that dispenses with the complexities of most Windows Server versions and provides the core storage, sharing, and remote access functionality that digital media and home networking enthusiasts require... Microsoft will make WHS available in two ways: Bundled with new WHS hardware and software-only, the latter so that enthusiasts can install the system on the hardware of their choice... If you're building your own home server, Microsoft requires a 1 GHz processor or better, 512 MB of RAM or more, and as many disks as you think you need. The company will support multiple home servers on the same network, but it's still murky how that will work."

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  1. You have to be crazy to pick WHS by viking80 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have used windows for many years, including setting up networks.
    I tried to set up Windows server 2003 as a file server and a web server.
    This is a file server for other Windows boxes only.

    I could not get the file server to work. Then I tried the web server. Works, but to access the pages, the users have to use windows user logon. Gave up on this too.

    Had basically *no* experience with linux. Installed Mandrake Linux, picked Samba and Apache.

    It all worked flawlessly right away.

    In addition, windows always become unstable after a few weeks of running. The Linux box has now run for two years, and no issues.

    If you pick windows for a server you have to be crazy.

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    don't cut it off www.mgmbill.org
  2. Its a trick, get an axe..... by gentimjs · · Score: 0, Troll

    "based on windows 2k3 server" ... so the target users will think "ok, it wont lock down my content like vista will" .... but unbeknownst to them, will have (as usual) more than its share of "critical" fixes neccessitating a service pack in the first 8 months. A service pack that just happens to "upgrade" you to vista-style DRM shit and lock-down existing files.

    Tread carefully..