Floppyhead - Digital Media and Home Theater Computers

I finally bought a HP MediaSmart windows home server. I jumped on the OfficeMax deal two weeks ago. Great machine. I am not sure if it is worth $500 but I think it is worth the $300 I paid.

I have been ripping some of my blu-ray movies I bought last week onto the system. I had to set-up a shared drive that my login could access. When I first did it, I kept getting an “access denied” error everytime I tried to open a folder over the network. It turns out I had to remote desktop into the MediaSmart and “unlock” my account. For a system, that is supposed to be plug and play, that was an odd thing to have to do, especially considering that the Windows Home Server console was useless for this.

The remote desktop computer name for your MediaSmart should just be its name you gave it during start-up, most likely HPServer, which is the default. The password should be the password you use to access the console. Just remember that your login is “administrator.”