SabatonFan80

Hi guys,

I think I've finally reached the end of my rope as far as trying to get WHS to play nicely with my Xbox 360s. I've been fighting with WHSv1 off and on for about 6 months now trying to get things to be visible in a reliable way (currently, they're not). This week I've been trying to setup up a WHS2011 VM in the hopes of finally having a decent DLNA server without any successful results.

In my WHSv1 machine, my current setup is using the Servio plugin to share the media. For whatever reason it seems as though the 360s see my shares exposed through Servio more easily than natively through WHS. The only problem is that Servio doesn't seem to easily recognize changes whenever I add/remove files, and it seems to be hit or miss as to whether the content will actually be served when it comes time to play.

I setup the WHS2011 VM in the hopes that all of these problems would just go away (they haven't). I'm frankly a little confused and frustrated with how difficult it's been to get these two products (WHS (either version) and the Xboxes) to play nicely with each other.

I'm not doing anything odd or strange on my network that I could see having an impact on this. My router is a Dlink DIR-655 (uPNP is enabled), and most of the connectivity is achieved via HomePlug AV connections. Running the network over the power lines isn't the fastest, but when it works I've had no problems streaming (running cat6 or wireless isn't an option). I've got about 6TB worth of ripped music and videos (mixture of DVDs and downloaded .avi's) that I'm trying to expose throughout the house to Xbox 360 front-ends.

Can anyone offer insight or suggestions as to what might be my problem? I can provide any further info required about my setup. As far as I can all media sharing is enabled as it should be, and I have no problems playing content from a laptop connected to the same connection and accessing the WHS machine over SMB.

Specifically, is there some sort of required step that I might be missing to get the 360s to act as a proper front-end? I just want the files, I don't particularly care for the Media Center browsing and pictures etc, but if I have to set that up to get it to work, I don't mind jumping through the extra hoops (I just can't seem to be able to figure it out on my own apparently..)

Hey guys,

I've had the following problem happen a few times now and was just wondering whether anyone has insight into what might be causing it.

I've got a WHSv1 server that I make available to networked Xbox 360s. Media is played straight via the 'Videos' menu option and not via any Media Center PCs or anything like that.

For months at a time, the server will happily make its content available. Once in a while though, the server doesn't seem to want to show up in the list of available video sources on the 360s (we have multiple in the house). In the past I've gotten around this by disabling media sharing on the homeserver and then re-enabling it (this resets the 10-connected devices limit to 0). Note that whenever this happens, the server is still completely accessible to PCs via Windows Explorer.

For whatever reason, doing the 'sharing reset trick' this weekend didn't seem to work. Previously, to try and get around this I had setup Twonky on the homeserver and while I see the 'twonky' instance in the video sources list, I still can't play any content. (When it was working prior to this weekend, I'd see both the homeserver hostname and the 'twonky' instance as video sources and both worked fine.)

Does anyone have an idea what might have caused my homeserver to not be listed as a videosource on the 360s?

Hi guys,

I'm in the process of rebuilding my WHSv1 server and am copying my files from the old server onto the new one.

I've got close to two terabytes of free space available on the new one (roughly 4.5TB total) on at least two physical drives (I had about 500G on an existing drive, and added another 1.5TB last night), but I'm getting lack of free space errors when I try to copy files.

This has been happening for the last couple of days, and the storage has rebalanced a couple of times since I started getting the free space errors.

Can anyone suggest what might be going on, and how I might be able to remedy it?

There's a possibility we might be using VirtualBox at work, so I decided to start checking it out at home. I'm in the process of building a WHS install just to check things out.

From what I'm reading in the documentation though, pass-through disks (or directly accessing the disks) is labelled as an experimental feature.

For you guys that have been using VirtualBox for quite a while, what's the general opinion on setting up physical disk access? It is really that unstable?

I seem to recall this being discussed at some point, but I just figured I'd ask before I go ahead and do it...

I've currently got a storage drive on my existing homeserver that I'll want to transfer the files to on the new homeserver that I'll be building. Rather than running both systems simultaneously and copying/moving the files over the network, can I simply plug the storage drive from the 'old' server into the new one?

(This is WHSv1, not Vail).

I know that you can move the drives around without losing files if you go into the DE folders, I'm just wondering whether the new one would have any issues reading/importing the data?