Chapter 5. Setting Up and Using Home Server Storage

Windows Home Server offers the home network a wide range of capabilities that include monitoring the health of network PCs (for example, detecting whether the clients have their firewalls turned on), establishing a central fax server, and enabling remote access to any computer from outside the network. I’ll go into all of these features in a satisfying amount of detail later in the book. However, just about every other Windows Home Server feature is related to storage: shared folders, media streaming, centralized ...

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