{"id":787,"date":"2007-05-14T15:35:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T14:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/windows-home-server-first-impressions-mass-storage-drivers-and-clients-that-wont-connect.htm"},"modified":"2007-05-14T20:27:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T19:27:35","slug":"windows-home-server-first-impressions-mass-storage-drivers-and-clients-that-wont-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/windows-home-server-first-impressions-mass-storage-drivers-and-clients-that-wont-connect.htm","title":{"rendered":"Windows Home Server &#8211; first impressions, mass storage drivers and clients that won&#8217;t connect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/whs.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Windows Home Server logo\" \/>In my post about Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/get-a-mac-maybe-but-windows-vista-offers-a-more-complete-package-than-you-might-think.htm\">Vista after hours<\/a> event, I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/products\/winfamily\/windowshomeserver\/\">Windows Home Server<\/a> (WHS).  Over the weekend, I installed the April CTP of Windows Home Server (build 1371) on a PC at home and I&#8217;m pretty impressed.<\/p>\n<p>WHS is based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserver2003\/sbs\/\" class=\"extlink\">Windows 2003 Small Business Server<\/a> and consequently has a pretty solid codebase.  In the April CTP, the product&#8217;s lineage is very visible, with a the title Windows Server 2003 for Small Business Server Setup during text-mode setup, a Windows Server 2003 splash screen and the desktop displaying the version information as:<\/p>\n<p><em> Windows Server 2003 for Small Business Server Evaluation copy. Build 3790 (Service Pack 2)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I installed the product on an aging Compaq DeskPro D500SFF (Pentium 4 1.5GHz CPU) upgraded to 768MB of RAM (I&#8217;m sure 512MB would have been fine but I&#8217;d already upgraded it) with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.co.uk\/martprd\/product\/seo\/557708\">Sony DWG120A DVD\u00c2\u00b1RW dual layer recorder<\/a>, white-box Serial ATA (SATA) controller (Silicon Image SiI3112A SATALink BIOS v4.2.83) and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seagate.com\/ww\/v\/index.jsp?vgnextoid=785e99f4fa74c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD&amp;locale=en-US#\">Seagate ST3500641AS (500GB SATA) disk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than reviewing WHS (as other people are better at that than I am &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/reviews\/whs_preview2.asp\">Paul Thurrott has a review of the WHS April CTP<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/apcmag.com\/5973\/preview_gallery_windows_home_server_beta_2\">APC has a review of WHS beta 2<\/a>), I&#8217;ll just highlight a couple of issues that it took me a while to resolve:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The WinPE 2.0-based installer didn&#8217;t recognise my SATA controller (but it did give me a straightforward interface for loading the correct drivers) &#8211; I know that SATA support in Windows is still patchy, but I would expect a new product to have been updated with current mass storage drivers for a common chipset (ironically, Windows Update pushed some updated drivers after installation)!  I downloaded the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconimage.com\/docs\/3x12_13670_x86_logo.zip\" target=\"_blank\">SiI3x12 32-bit Windows base driver<\/a> (v1.3.67.0, dated 30 March 2007) and, when prompted by the installer, I supplied them on a USB key; however this failed setup once it entered text-mode (it couldn&#8217;t see the USB key) so I tried again using a CD.  Again, text-mode setup failed as it will only accept updated drivers (after pressing F6) from drive A: so I ran the whole process again, this time using a floppy disk (which felt like a return to the 1990s).  Even though the GUI-mode and text-mode setups both require their own drivers to be loaded, it seems that they have to be from the same media.<\/li>\n<li>I had a few issues with my media (file copy errors), despite downloading the ISO twice (on two different machines) and writing the DVD (using two different drives) at the slowest possible speed; however I decided to skip the files that couldn&#8217;t be read (mostly non-English language files but also one hotfix for Microsoft knowledge base article 929644, which is not available publicly).  This may have been the cause of a later error &#8211; <em>Windows Home Server setup error.  Updating Windows Update Redirector failed: cannot complete this function. (error code 0x800703eb)<\/em> but after setup consequently failed, I restarted the computer, after which it resumed installation, updated the Windows Update Redirector and ran the rest of the setup routine with no further issues.<\/li>\n<li>When installing the client connector (on a Windows XP SP2 PC), I was unable to connect to my home server.  As product intended for home users, WHS expects all devices to be on the same subnet; however <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/setting-up-ip-forwarding-on-windows.htm\">my home network is split across multiple subnets<\/a> (I also elected not to use the default server name).  The WHS help text refers to this as an advanced network configuration and WHS requires that a manual connection is made.  Unfortunately, connecting directly via IP (or name) also failed, informing me that <em>A network error has occurred. Please verify that your network connection is active and that Windows Home Server is powered on<\/em>.  Then, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/eldar\/archive\/2007\/04\/28\/windows-home-server-client-join-troubleshoooting-hints.aspx\">a very useful troubleshooter for WHS client joins<\/a> which let me ascertain that all was well with my server so I started looking at firewalls.  After enabling firewall logging on the WHS network connection, I could see connections being dropped from one of my own subnets.  I then edited the firewall exceptions list, changing the scope from my network (subnet) only to a custom list of subnets for the following services (any externally-accessible services were left at their defaults &#8211; i.e. HTTP on TCP 80, HTTPS on TCP 443 and Windows Home Server Remote Access on TCP 4125) and successfully joined the client to my WHS:\n<ul>\n<li>File and printer sharing (TCP 139 and 445, UDP 137-138).<\/li>\n<li>HTTP (TCP 88).<\/li>\n<li>HTTPS (TCP 444).<\/li>\n<li>Remote Desktop (TCP 3389).<\/li>\n<li>Windows Home Server Computer Backup (program exception).<\/li>\n<li>Windows Home Server Diagnostics (TCP 5247).<\/li>\n<li>Windows Home Server Transport Service (TCP 1138).<\/li>\n<li>Windows Media Connect (TCP 10243, UDP 10280-10284).<\/li>\n<li>UPnP Framework (TCP 2869 and UDP 1900).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite these problems, I want to stress that WHS is shaping up to be a great product.  It is beta software and that means that problems are to be expected (I have filed a few bug reports already, as well as a couple of feature requests &#8211; namely that I would like to be able to join WHS servers to a domain and apply group policy and that I would like to be able to access WHS on my own domain name, rather than via a Microsoft-supplied address).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more information about WHS at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/homeserver\/\">Windows Home Server blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my post about Microsoft&#8217;s Vista after hours event, I mentioned Windows Home Server (WHS). Over the weekend, I installed the April CTP of Windows Home Server (build 1371) on a PC at home and I&#8217;m pretty impressed. WHS is based on Windows 2003 Small Business Server and consequently has a pretty solid codebase. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/windows-home-server-first-impressions-mass-storage-drivers-and-clients-that-wont-connect.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows Home Server &#8211; first impressions, mass storage drivers and clients that won&#8217;t connect<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-windows-home-server"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Windows Home Server - first impressions, mass storage drivers and clients that won&#039;t connect - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/windows-home-server-first-impressions-mass-storage-drivers-and-clients-that-wont-connect.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Windows Home Server - first impressions, mass storage drivers and clients that won&#039;t connect - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In my post about Microsoft&#8217;s Vista after hours event, I mentioned Windows Home Server (WHS). 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