Comments on: FAQ: Windows Home Server and Port Forwarding

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Windows Home Server 2011, like its predecessor, is designed to be used with appliance-like PC server hardware, sitting in the logical center of your home network, as a central storage and sharing point for all of your documents and digital media files (music/audio, videos, photos, and so on). In a general sense, it provides for the home network what a more traditional Windows Server product does for the workplace: It centrally back up your PCs (and the server itself), monitor the "health" of all the PCs on your network (as well as itself), provide remote access to the server contents and to PCs on the home network, and so on.

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By: Aman

Aman — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:50:55 +0000

Will the WHS CONNECTOR be able to backup my laptop when I am not connected over my home LAN but from a remote location? Which ports should be forwarded for backup to work, and how do I tell the Connector that for backups it should access the WHS via its globally unique IP address rather than the LAN address?

By: Streaming music from Windows Home Server to the Denon AVR3808CI/4808CI

Streaming music from Windows Home Server to the Denon AVR3808CI/4808CI — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:39:38 +0000

[...] information on port forwarding can be found here. If you don’t disable UPNP you stand a chance of your router being overwhelmed and stopping [...]

By: rich ruscio

rich ruscio — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:34:50 +0000

I see a lot of questions about routers which ‘just won’t work’ with WHS, but I’ve never seen anything that “really works well”.

I have seen a couple of references to high-end Cisco routers, but, no thanks.

Any pointers to routers that don’t allow the excuse that it’s the router’s fault for connector failures?

Thank in advance,

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:53:50 +0000

I had trouble getting WHS to configure my router, a Xincom XC-DPG502, and it turned out the router had a limited number of UPnP port forwarding entries. After I deleted some unused entries, WHS successfully configured the router.