[AccessD] OT: Web site photo album

Max Wanadoo max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 13:13:22 CDT 2009


Thanks for ALL that John, plenty to get my teeth into.

Max


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: 04 August 2009 18:48
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Web site photo album

Max,

You are in England IIRC so I cannot comment on prices there, however it is
possible to buy WHS as a 
computer with the OS installed.  After that price depends on options.  These
tend to be tightly 
controlled (by the manufacturer) and in general the only options are the
number / size of the 
drives, and MAYBE the amount of RAM.

I never even considered doing that because the systems at the time I got
into this were 
reaaaaallllyyyy wimpy, i.e. (IIRC) Celeron 1 ghz with 500 megs of ram.  It
appears that in the years 
since the manufacturers have seen the errors of their ways and upped the
power and memory, thouth 
still nothing to write home about.

I understand Newegg is not an option for you guys.  However this should give
you a feeling for 
what's out there.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTM
ATCH&Description=whs&x=0&y=0

For anyone who is tech savvy, I do NOT recommend buying the pre-built
server.

I built my own, and bought WHS as an EOM software package from Newegg.  I
ended up using spare parts 
I had laying around at first and then over time upgrading.  My current WHS
is a quad core AMD 9550 
with 4 gigs of ram, a RAID 5 two terrabyte array with hardware controller
(soon to be RAID 6), with 
a pair of 1.5 tbyte drives not assigned to WHS for storing my ripped videos.
Quad core is overkill 
no doubt but I upgraded a server to a more powerful quad core chip and so I
had one hanging around.

I also run MyMovies on this

http://www.mymovies.dk/

which uses SQL Server Lite (tiny little database, about 10 mbytes so far)
for the MyMovies metadata 
storage.  My WHS server has two published shared drives (the entire two
drives not assigned to WHS) 
which my TV in the living room (Windows Media Center) can pull the ripped
videos off of using 
MyMovies to select the video to watch.

And of course, now, the photo albums published to the internet for my
extended family using WHIIST:

http://www.andrewgrant.org/whiist

BTW it is possible for family members to upload their own photos over the
internet if you allow 
that, so a single WHS server at the home of a tech savvy person with high
speed internet could be a 
repository for the entire family.

Only one big gotcha, there can be a maximum of 10 users, which includes
machines in your home being 
backed up etc.  That is a limitation imposed by WHS to keep this from
becoming a Business home 
server.  ;)  In fact WHS is a shell application over a full on Windows 2003
X32 (SBS so I have heard).

Limited users shouldn't be a biggie if the family shares a single or a few
usernames / passwords.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Max Wanadoo wrote:
> 1. How much is WHS?
> 2. How about Johns#1
> 
> Max
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: 04 August 2009 17:29
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Web site photo album
> 
> Max,
> 
>  > Is that a freebie from MS. Does it have a Forum?
> 
> WHS is not free.  This remote login is a part of WHS, so once you have WHS
> that part is free.
> 
> WHIST is a freebie.  That is an Add-In to WHS which creates the photo
album.
> Even without WHIIST 
> you can set up password protected shared directories.
> 
>  > Will you be leaving it available for us Listers to transfer files?
> 
> I could do that I suppose.  I am not really sure what kind of security
> issues I create with these 
> user / password stuff.  After all this is a shared directory / user on my
> WHS server.  And the 
> username / password becomes part of google history if you know what I
mean.
>  >
>  > Ps nice easy password to remember.  I hate the difficult ones like
"John"
> 
> ROTFL.  Unfortunately WHS REQUIRES a certain difficulty level for the
> password or it will not allow 
> you to turn on remote access.  There are 4 properties that can make up the
> difficulty.
> 
> 1) MUST contain 7 characters
> 2) Must contain 3 out of 4 of the following:
> a) Special Characters
> b) Numbers
> c) Upper case letters
> d) Lower case letters.
> 
> So I MUST have three of the difficulty "properties and it must be 7
> characters or it will not allow 
> that user to log in.
> 
> Now look carefully at my password and you will see that it uses:
> 
> Special characters
> Numbers
> Lower case letters
> 
> Beyond that it is a simple "drag your finger down the keyboard in a
line..."
> kind of thing.
> 
> Given the "requirements" for the password, what password would you like to
> have?  Shall we have a 
> "suggest the easiest to remember password" contest?  The winner gets...
are
> you ready... to use his 
> password...
> 
> ;)
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> 
> Max Wanadoo wrote:
>> Well, I got on ok. Couldn't do too much because of the slow connection I
>> have - I could write a MDB in the time it takes to navigate pages...
>> It looks good. Is that a freebie from MS. Does it have a Forum?
>> Will you be leaving it available for us Listers to transfer files?
>>
>> Ta mucho
>>
>> Max
>> Ps nice easy password to remember.  I hate the difficult ones like "John"

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