Philgr Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 (edited) So i finally have some time to kill over the xmas period to start to play around with this N54L that i got 6 months ago, i have the N54L running WHS2012ER2 with a couple of shares and and some backups to a Synology NAS, DCHP and DNS I am sure i can use it for some other stuff and I'm looking for some inspiration on how and what else i can use it for So come on guys what do you run on your WHS and most importantly Why ? Edited December 23, 2013 by Philgr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwills Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Remote access to data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 You mentioned backups, but not specifically client PC backups, so I'll mention it. MS has, IMHO, the best home-user client PC backup system available. I'm not saying it can't stand improvement -- I can think of several things that would improve it significantly -- but it is pretty great as it is. Media streaming is another use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cskenney Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 There are some who live by the theory that less is more. Meaning if you are depending on the WHS box to be a stable source of your data then you may not want to pile on lots of additional tasks or software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philgr Posted December 24, 2013 Author Share Posted December 24, 2013 Thanks for the replies guys The N54l is actually the only windows PC, in the home, the rest of my kit is all apple OSX and iOS I will look into how to get the server set-up as a time machine target so I can have client backup and then the server backs-up to the symbology NAS, all my really important stuff is also backed up to a cloud service Phil G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 I believe people have tried to set up WHS2011 as a Time Machine target in the past. I'm not sure if any got it working, but I do recall that they all ran into issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcollison Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 You haven't truly experienced the N54L until you have done a hardware mod. Have you watched all of John Stutsman's videos and read his posts? There's some ideas for you. Who need software? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Last I knew there wasn't a 64 bit version of Netatalk required to host a Time Machine on WHS 2011. I successfully created a Mac sparse bundle locally and moved to a WHS share, was able to mount it and use it as a TM destination. However the biggest drawback is that you cannot mount the bundle this way on Mac boot for disaster recovery which is one of the true benefits of TM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Thanks Jason. That's one of the things I recall reading about. It doesn't seem there's nice, seamless solution for WHS2011 and Mac OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 The only option I found that worked was to host a FreeNAS VM under VMWare on WHS and enable the necessary Apple protocol(s) built into FreeNAS. This method can be accessed on Mac boot. Only issue I encountered was somewhat poor network throughput even on a gigabit LAN. May have been a limitation of my virtual NIC driver and you may experience better performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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