not to ask to much and if it wasn't possible do you have any suggestion to directly attach the hard drive to the system ? currently i am using raid cards but the problem is that the whs is not able to identify the harddrives correctly causing alot of troubles when talking about booting and several other problems so is there any way to do this directly ?
There shouldn't be a password set at all during the setup of the syspreped image. it should just load to the administrator account desktop. the password is set in the last ste I.E when you connect to the WHS for the first time using the whs connector software.
As plowe said below your question, there is NONE so far, unless you set it up If you did , then sure you have to remember it? And read the whole thread (or at least Post 27 x number of times!) sebus
In this case buy an external SATA/SCSI disk arary chassis with its own internal onboard RAID which presents a single MASSIVE disk to the OS Plasmon used to do ones like that sebus
That doesn't work either, because WHS has maximum hard disk size of 2TB. Unless the drives are actually so small that they are less than 2TB combined One possible solution could be getting Windows 2003 Storage Server instead. It's something I've wanted to try for some time but I haven't gotten my hands on it yet.
I'm not sure this is entirely true. I'm sure I've read before that the 2TB limit is down to the SATA controller on the EX48x's (and probably EX49x's). But the orginal EX47x has a better controller and isn't limited to only 2TB drives. Meaning its a hardware limit not a WHS limit. Either way as we're talking about using the EX47x's software on our own hardware, so using good SATA controllers make those limits are irrelevant.
standalone install - apps I got a mediasmart server 2.5 running fine in vmware. one question pops up: is there a way to install the mediasmart applications on a plain WHS? maybe using the msi files from the vmware install and some prequesite installations like the ones required for the 2.5 update? some addins by hp are based on avaliable applications but are well optimized. thnx zuz