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Accessing your network from far afield
If you so desire, Windows Home server can open up your entire home or
small office network so you can log on to any computer on your network
from any browser, anywhere in the world (see Figure 1-4).
That sounds scary, but (at least at this point) the security looks mighty good.
WHS’s
Remote Access feature takes a little while to set up (see Chapters 10
and 11), but once it’s in place, you can
 Log on to your server.
 Upload or download files from a specific folder.
 Use any pre-ordained PC on your network as if you were sitting right in
front of it. (Give or take a little time for a slow connection, anyway.)
 Let other people log on to your home network and retrieve files in spe-
cially designated folders. (If you’re clever and set restrictions properly,
that is.)
Geeks might be reminded of something called an
FTP server, which performs
a similar function, allowing people to get into a folder from the Internet and
send files to the folder or retrieve files from it. Part of Remote Access acts
like FTP, but it employs an entirely different technology: Windows Home
Server doesn’t use FTP.
Figure 1-4:
Log on to
any of your
home
computers
from
Atchafalaya
to Timbuktu.
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