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yet another very cool feature of Home Server today we're going to be having a

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look at remote access so remote access

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allows you to access all of your files so I'm going to go ahead and type in my

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email address I already have this set up because I have my own home server but uh

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if it's all the same to you guys I'm just going to keep my email address on

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the down low I accidentally revealed it in one of my previous episodes and about

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300 million people added me to MSN

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Messenger uh I apologize for ignoring

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those people but it's just not uh not something that I want to

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necessarily have all over my uh

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well yeah all over my

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MSN I keep it strictly to friends and family so all right here we go the

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domain name is set up I just entered my Windows Live ID I already had it set up

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it it's only a couple extra steps it's fairly self-explanatory to do this so

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I've gone ahead and set it up my router is uh fairly able to configure that on

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its own so here we go we're going to simulate what it's like to run Windows

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Home Server through the internet browser it

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only works with Internet Explorer for remote desktop connection so if you

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don't like Internet Explorer then too freaking bad but you can use uh other

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browsers including Firefox is the one that I use myself and and

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uh that one I have tested to work with

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the uh remote folder access so I'm going

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to go ahead type in my strong password so here you go we're in the interface

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for Windows Home Server so I'm going to go ahead and click computers so from

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here I can oh yeah you'll have to install an active X control so basically

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I'm just going to explain what this does you can either connect to your home server which just takes you to the Home

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Server console this thing or you can connect to your PCS so as long as you

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configure your PCS to work with remote desktop connection and they are running

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a supported operating system it's just

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that easy you just double click on it and you are running remote desktop

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connection to your computer the next one is shared folder so this one is also

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just terrific like let's say you uh you

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get to school and you realize the project that you worked on that you

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aren't very smart and you store in the Expendable folder so here let's go put a

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project in the Expendable folder let's say that project is an EA download

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manager so we go ahead and uh let's go

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to the TS mini go to the Expendable

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folder n can't find the Expendable

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folder for some reason Heavens okay let's throw it in the uh public folder

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fine whatever okay so let's go back to

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Internet Explorer oh it's probably because it's open here oh well so we'll

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go to the public folder oh no I forgot it oh it's okay I can save it to my

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desktop yay so it's that easy you can just access all your folders like that

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you can browse the whole uh structure the whole folder structure so I could go

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into my Linus folder I haven't actually got anything in there but here let's go

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back to my public folder so you can actually check a bunch of different

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stuff that you want you can choose icon view or details view you can show all

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files you can show 20 or 50 it gets kind of slow if your home internet connection

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isn't very fast and you're trying to show all files and like some huge folder

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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

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if not you can always search for it and it does work very very well so that is

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yet another killer feature of Windows Home Server that I absolutely love and

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uh basically sets itself up if you have a reasonably current router