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Microsoft Windows Home Server
File Serving
Windows Home Server allows you to share your files within your house. It comes with five default shares: music, videos, photos, software, and public. Also, these shares are automatically duplicated. Microsoft developed technology to automatically duplicate files across hard drives in order to prevent data loss from a hard drive failure. Not only does the file duplication technology prevent data loss, but it also manages duplicate files (so the same version of explorer.exe or mscvrt.dll from three different computers is only stored once on the server, which saves disk space). You can also manage permissions of the file shares on a per-user basis. Each user gets their own share for personal data, as well as full access to all the other shares. You can restrict access from read/write to read-only, as well as to no access at all.   Initially, while copying music files to the file server, I got an error message about being unable to duplicate a file. I received this same error on the exact same file when I was using the Beta 2 of WHS, but this time instead of having to dig through server log files to find the offending file, I was able to pull up the console, get the name and location of the file, and rename it to something that WHS found less offensive. Since then the file server has performed perfectly without any issues.
Page 1: Introduction & Hardware Configuration
Page 2: Installation of Windows Home Server & Client Software Page 3: Client Console and Restore CD Page 4: File Serving Page 5: Backup Page 6: Windows Media Connect Page 7: Remote Access Page 8: Plug-ins Page 9: Conclusion 
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