Answers: Changing Administrator password Windows Home Server

Brettski

Is there a problem using Computer Management > Local User and Groups > Users to change the Administrator password in Windows Home Server? Is there a chance it will cause any issues with the system? I ask as the system warns against using server tools to change settings. I have access to the system with my account, but the Administrator password isn't working,forgotten whatever and needs to be changed.

SilverbackNet

The Administrator user's password can be freely changed if you've forgotten it, though Home Server recommends never using the built-in Administrator and only using a separate account that also has admin privs. Only changing system accounts would cause certain services to stop functioning (like the ASPNET account); the majority of the services, including backup, filesharing, and streaming, use one of the System accounts that have no passwords.

BSchlinker

Easiest way to do it via the dashboard alone

With that said, the above method is doing the same thing as changing it via console would (in fact, technically, the dashboard is run over RDP....). The only additional functionality I see via dashboard is the ability to set a password hint.

How to setup a Remote Desktop access to the Windows Home Server box?

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Sergey Aldoukhov

I have Acer easyStore H340, which does not allow full Remote Desktop access out-of-box (only WHS console). Anybody knows the recipe for enabling it? Remote access is the only way to get to the server since it does not have keyboard and video terminals.

EDIT: In fact, the remote access is there, it was just hard to find - and until you found it, it is impossible to configure anything that is not configurable through console.

EDIT: When I tried to connect the first time using Remote Desktop Connection, I probably messed up the login info. Later, when I used right-click from the Network\MYSERVER in Explorer, the RDC put in correct logon attributes (MYSERVER\Administrator) and I was able to go in. The fact you need to use "Administrator" for WHS remote access using RDC is not covered anywhere in the doc.