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I disabled defragmentation of the system drive and these warnings stopped. I noticed after running PerfectDisk for a month or so that I was getting health warnings on my system drive roughly once or twice a week.
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For a short time while I was trying to get Windows Media Center to work, I considered using My Movies for WHS. Instead of using the weak media sharing capabilities on Windows Home Server, I put Asset UPnP on to serve my music and I’ve switched to Plex for video.
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Not good, and they never did come out with an official update (other than Windows Home Server v2). Several accounts of people losing media sharing entirely are there as well as the fact that it takes the automatic sharing setup out of the console.
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There is a good forum here explaining how to update WHS to incorporate WMP11 sharing, but I DIDN’T DO IT. That product has been discontinued and the replacement is the Media Sharing feature of Windows Media Player 11. I tried all of them, even the Xbox 360 preset. Even the AVI format it supports is ripped with a codec that Windows Media Connect doesn’t understand. None of the formats from Handbrake are recognized by Windows Media Connect. Windows Media Connect is the way Windows did DLNA style media sharing prior to Windows Media Player 11. Q: The MediaSmart server is falshing red and blue when bootingĪ: I have not found this to be of any consequence, once fully booted the server will just flash the blue health sign indicating that Windows Home Server is not installed.Windows Home Server uses Windows Media Connect 2.0 to do its built-in sharing. The blinking stopped after a reboot with Windows, but it came back after I reinstalled Ubuntu onto the same hard drive. I came to the conclusion after using the Recovery Disk (comes with the HP WHS server) to reinstall Windows Home Server onto the hard drive. After experimenting, it seems that the health light indicates that the MediaSmart server cannot detect a valid Windows Home Server installation. Q: The MediaSmart server's health light is flashing, it is a bluish colorĪ: This is normal if using the guide above. Otherwise, the Adding a second hard drive to your HDA page may be of service. If you have Greyhole and are having trouble, check out the Reconnect existing Greyhole storage pool page. Plug the remaining data drives into the MediaSmart server. Change the remaining hardware address to come up as eth0 (it is currently eth1 at the end of the line).
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After opening the les file below, look for the PC network card hardware address and delete that whole line. After rebooting and SSHing into the server, change the network card to eth0 from our previous eth1. Install Amahi Modifying Ubuntu for Amahiġ. Check your router for the server's IP address, use Putty to SSH into that IP address.ģ. Move the hard drive to the MediaSmart server's slot 1, turn on the server.Ģ. Note the hardware address of the network card:ġ. Save using ctrl+x, and hitting "y" to confirmĨ. Change the interfaces file to reflect eth1, not eth0:ħ. Verify that the SSH is working by connecting with Putty. The GUI version is also not recommended since there is no VGA or DVI ports for a monitor, only USB.ĥ. I was not able to get the GUI version of Ubuntu working on the MediaSmart server. Install Ubuntu 12.04, the server version. Connect the hard drive into the spare PC.Ģ. 2 Transplanting an existing Amahi serverġ.