Comments on: Acer easyStore Windows Home Server

By: Kam

Kam — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:40:59 +0000

Well, technically it is based on Windows Server 2003. If you need to connect USB devices to it, you would have to first install the correct driver that is compatible with Windows Server 2003. I didn’t use the USB ports at all until I switched my strategy to use all internal drive bays for storage only devices and installed Ubuntu on an external USB hard drive and boot from it.

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:52:49 +0000

I just bought one Acer Home Server H342, I manage to backup all my files and share folders but I can’t use the USB ports to use it for download pictures directly from my digital camera. Also I can’t use it to network a printer using one of those USB ports. I wonder why it has four USB ports and how can I use one to download pictures directly to the Acer Home Server or to Network a printer.

By: Kam

Kam — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:40:36 +0000

Hey Dan, I have not had the issue you mentioned since I installed Linux. Windows Home Server has the file duplication software that runs all the time and I suspect that is where the problem lies. Probably not what you like to hear but with the couple years of running Windows Home Server, I had not been able to tame the system to be more efficient.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:54:36 +0000

I am wondering if anyone has an idea of a way to cool the machine down? My CPU is always up around 75C and System is 42C. The other thing I find is the memory usage is always over 52%. The WD Black 1tb drive wouldn’t that make it run even hotter? I want to ad another 2 gigs of space as I already have 2 in the machine and it’s already 80% full. Thoughts from anyone would be great. Thanks.

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By: Kam

Kam — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:08:59 +0000

Hi Bernard, I used the settings page in the Console to setup SMTP. I used Google Mail as my SMTP server. After stepping through the Internet Account wizard is that I went back to the properties of the account, and clicked the Advanced tab. There I specified using SSL for SMTP and changed the port number from 25 to 465. See the Google help page for the required setting if you are also using Google Mail for your SMTP setup. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287

By: Bernard

Bernard — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:35:42 +0000

Hello,

how did you filled all the parameters for the email alerts notifications ?

I tried multiple times using an gmail account, but no success to pass the test & receive an email from the server.

Thanks for you help,

Bernard

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