Windows Home Server – Remote Access

Connecting to your Windows Home Server is as simple as putting your Windows Live Custom Domain into your browser – for example, http://atomicwhs.homeserver.com/ – and you end up on the home page of your server. To use the remote access feature, select Log On, then enter your username and password in the provided boxes.

As long as you enter the right credentials, you will be presented with the Remote Access Web Site, which consists of three pages, Home, Computers and Shared Folders.

The Computers page lets you use remote desktop to access your home computers as if you were logged into them locally. The advantage of using Windows Home Server to do this lies in the use of a single port for remote desktop. Rather than requiring separate ports for each machine, all remote desktop sessions use port 4125 as an RDP Proxy.



The Shared Folders page gives you access to the shared folders on your server. You will only see folders you have read or read/write access to. Files on the server are indexed by Windows Desktop Search, and this is often the easiest way to find your files. Across the top of the Shared Folders page is the breadcrumb trail, so you can keep track of where you are, and move back to higher folders easily.

Downloading files is as easy as selecting the file or files you wish to download, and these will be zipped up into a single file and downloaded for you. Power Pack 1 will give you the ability to zip the files into a self-extracting executable zip file (.exe) as well.



To upload files to the server, navigate to the folder you wish to upload to and click the upload button. In the dialog box provided, select the files you wish to upload and then click the Upload button to finish. You will see a progress display while the files are uploaded.