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yet another very cool feature of Home Server today we're gonna be having a look at remote access so remote access allows you to access all of your files so I'm gonna go ahead and type in my email address I already have this set up cuz I have my own home server but it's all the same to you guys I'm just gonna keep my email address on the down-low I accidentally revealed it in one of my previous episodes and about 300 million people added me to MSN Messenger I apologize for ignoring those people but it's just not not something that I want to necessarily have all over my well yeah all over my msn I keep it strictly to friends and family so alright here we go the domain name is setup I just entered my Windows Live ID I already had it set up there was only a couple extra steps it's fairly self-explanatory to do this so I've gone ahead and set it up my router is fairly able to configure that on its own so here we go we're gonna simulate what it's like to run Windows Home Server through the internet browser it only works with Internet Explorer 4 remote desktop connection so if you don't like Internet Explorer then too freaking bad but you can use other browsers including Firefox is the one that I use myself and that one I have tested to work with the remote folder access so I'm gonna go ahead type in my strong password so here you go we're in the interface for a Windows Home Server so I'm gonna go ahead and click computers so from here I can oh yeah you'll have to install an ActiveX control so basically I'm just gonna explain what this does you can either connect to your home server which just takes you to the home server console this thing or you can connect to your PC so as long as you configure your pcs to work with remote desktop connection and they are running a supported operating system it's just that easy you just double click on it and you are running the remote desktop connection to you computer the next one is shared folder so this one is also just terrific like let's say you you get to school and you realize the project that you worked on that you aren't very smart and you store in the expendable folder so here let's go put a project in the expendable folder let's say that project is an EI download manager so we go ahead and let's go to the TS mini go to the expendable folder no can't find the expendable folder for some reason heavens ok let's throw it in the public folder fine whatever ok so let's go back to Internet Explorer oh it's probably because it's open here oh well so we'll go to the public folder oh no I forgot it oh it's ok I can save it to my desktop yay so it's not easy you can just access all your folders like that you can browse the whole structure the whole folder structure so I could go into my Linus folder I haven't actually got anything in there but let's go back to my public folder so you can actually check a bunch of different stuff that you want you can choose icon view or details view you can show all files you can show 20 or 50 it gets kind of slow if you're home internet connection isn't very fast and you're trying to show all files and like some huge folder so I wouldn't really recommend that but if you have any idea what you're looking for you can usually find it in the list if not you can only search for it and it does work very very well so that is yet another killer feature of Windows Home Server that I absolutely love and it basically sets itself up if you have a reasonably current router