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Friday, May 29, 2009 12:00 AM

Windows Home Server Nirvana Is One Step Closer

Last night, while the family caught up on “So You Think You Can Dance,” I spent a little more quality time with my Microsoft Windows Home Server experiment. My first step was to get the server installed, up and running. That worked out really well and didn’t take much effort, but one of the key pieces of functionality I want from my WHS isn’t there yet. I couldn’t get the Remote Access bit configured properly so there’s no way to access my “personal cloud” when on the go. After a little more playtime last night, however, I’m much closer to my objective.
Kevin C. Tofel

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Friday, May 29, 2009 07:34 AM

Dynamic DNS?

"I have to type https://185.123.4.5:4443 to get to my WHS box. Obviously that’s not ideal because it’s clunky and more importantly, it becomes useless the minute Verizon changes the IP address I’ve been assigned."

Obviously the is what services like dyndns.com are for. Less obvious is that if you go to the Host Services page (www.dyndns.com/account/services/hosts/) there is a listing of all your Hostnames, IP addesses and when they last updated. I check it every so often to see if any of my less often customers have wandered off...

VERY useful!

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Friday, May 29, 2009 08:42 AM

Suggest using port 443 anyway

As long as 443 isn't blocked by your providers, or you don't think it will be blocked in future, use 443.

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