We Got Served

The We Got Served forums have now been open for just over a week, and I’ve been blown away by the passion and enthusiasm the WGS community has for supporting each other’s adventures with Windows Home Server. Already over 400 people have registered (with, I suspect, a lot more lurking - you know who you are!) and are sharing their experiences and expertise with others. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed so far.

I thought it would be a good idea to create a Frequently Asked Questions area of the forum in order to collate specific nuggets of wisdom from the community - already this is being filled up with fantastic “How To..” guides by WGS readers, some of which I’ll highlight here on the blog on an ongoing basis. Do check the forums out in the meantime if you want to stay right up to date with the latest discussions.

The first guide I’m featuring is one of several writen by WGS reader, “condition_unknown” and focuses on creating a static IP address for your home server.

How do I give my WHS Server a Static IP address?

This isn’t too difficult a task to perform, but if you dont know how to, I have set out instructions below.

Step One

First of all, on your home computer, be it Windows Vista, XP or even 95, press the windows key and R. In the text input box, type cmd as shown, then press the enter key.

Step Two

Type ipconfig and again, press enter

Step Three

The black box, will then suddenly fill with information, a lot of which you won’t understand, but you need to make note of two important pieces of information. These are the subnet mask, and the default gateway…..

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