yet another very cool feature of Home Server today we're going to be having a
look at remote access so remote access
allows you to access all of your files so I'm going to go ahead and type in my
email address I already have this set up because I have my own home server but uh
if it's all the same to you guys I'm just going to keep my email address on
the down low I accidentally revealed it in one of my previous episodes and about
300 million people added me to MSN
Messenger uh I apologize for ignoring
those people but it's just not uh not something that I want to
necessarily have all over my uh
well yeah all over my
MSN I keep it strictly to friends and family so all right here we go the
domain name is set up I just entered my Windows Live ID I already had it set up
it it's only a couple extra steps it's fairly self-explanatory to do this so
I've gone ahead and set it up my router is uh fairly able to configure that on
its own so here we go we're going to simulate what it's like to run Windows
Home Server through the internet browser it
only works with Internet Explorer for remote desktop connection so if you
don't like Internet Explorer then too freaking bad but you can use uh other
browsers including Firefox is the one that I use myself and and
uh that one I have tested to work with
the uh remote folder access so I'm going
to go ahead type in my strong password so here you go we're in the interface
for Windows Home Server so I'm going to go ahead and click computers so from
here I can oh yeah you'll have to install an active X control so basically
I'm just going to explain what this does you can either connect to your home server which just takes you to the Home
Server console this thing or you can connect to your PCS so as long as you
configure your PCS to work with remote desktop connection and they are running
a supported operating system it's just
that easy you just double click on it and you are running remote desktop
connection to your computer the next one is shared folder so this one is also
just terrific like let's say you uh you
get to school and you realize the project that you worked on that you
aren't very smart and you store in the Expendable folder so here let's go put a
project in the Expendable folder let's say that project is an EA download
manager so we go ahead and uh let's go
to the TS mini go to the Expendable
folder n can't find the Expendable
folder for some reason Heavens okay let's throw it in the uh public folder
fine whatever okay so let's go back to
Internet Explorer oh it's probably because it's open here oh well so we'll
go to the public folder oh no I forgot it oh it's okay I can save it to my
desktop yay so it's that easy you can just access all your folders like that
you can browse the whole uh structure the whole folder structure so I could go
into my Linus folder I haven't actually got anything in there but here let's go
back to my public folder so you can actually check a bunch of different
stuff that you want you can choose icon view or details view you can show all
files you can show 20 or 50 it gets kind of slow if your home internet connection
isn't very fast and you're trying to show all files and like some huge folder
so I wouldn't really recommend that but if you have any idea what you're looking for you can usually find it in the list
if not you can always search for it and it does work very very well so that is
yet another killer feature of Windows Home Server that I absolutely love and
uh basically sets itself up if you have a reasonably current router