how to setup ASUS HOME SERVER with mac os x

This is a small trick but will be handy if you need to access the ASUS HOME SERVER with system other than windows. The menu asked the user to install an windows application in order to access the server. However, notice the ASUS HOME SERVER are actually a reconfigured windows server 2003 with IIS server 6 up running. You can login it from you LAN with microsoft remote desktop.

Download and install microsoft remote desktop, configure the connection. You can find the ASUS HOME SERVER's LAN ip from your gateway router. The server generally don't response to LAN broadcast.

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Double click the remote desktop icon to login, when ask for the administrator password, put the one you used to setup the server at the first place.

Once logged in, the windows home server console application is right there on the desktop, double click it, then you can configure the server as if you installed a windows access app. You will feel happy because this is actually a IIS server machine with windows server 2003 functionalities.

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