Home Server Projects
I've always been interested in installing servers for home use. The ability to customize Linux based servers to the degree that surpasses what is economically available from any other source makes Linux the obvious choice. Linux also offers the home user more latitude in that it will support practically any other desktop operating system with basic services.
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Now that I've had some sleep...
Naming him Kraken is not such a stupid thing since that more or less reflects the corporate attitude of his "daddy". Eat up everything! I suspect that the stuffed white shirt corporate Billiy's-boys think that they aren't the pirates, and so forth! Lots of good fun to be had by all.
In any case I'm going to focus on Debraserver first since that's the real reason for all of this hard work and geekish angst!
Kraken gets netted. Debbie is basically ignored for a day or two,
Microsoft has quite a way to go before their RC1 should be released to the general public. Please note that I reported that XP, 2 beta versions of Wista, and 3 or 4 versions of Linux all installed using that NIC with absolutely no problems. The linchpin to the entire system is the network port. If the Server can't talk or hear on the Ethernet port, what's the point?
As I reported earlier my install of Windows Home Server RC1 did not find and install the driver for the NIC. I went into the registry to see if it found the PnP ID string, I surmised that could not match the ID with anything in its database of drivers. I went to DELL's site and downloaded a 2003 dated driver and manually installed it. The DELL driver install package looked at the OS and wouldn't install it since it wasn't XP. I dropped the INF, the SYS and CAT files into the appropriate places and it worked just fine.
After that I went ahead and registered the install with the Gorilla and went to Windows Update and updated everything I could including Internet Exploder 6 to 7. Something that was interesting was that the IE6 install looked to have a considerably toughened-up bunch of settings but with the really annoying popup boxes it got old fast. I agree with MS that nobody should use IE6 or IE7 or any browser on a Server. The reason its there is because the management interface is handled with an IIS webserver.
I think I'm going to look at Debbie for a day or two to see if I can get more than the basic functionality going.
More to come......
