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    hello all .
    i'm confusied ,,, i read a lot of posts about playing itunes on WHS and i didn't get something : what the best and easy way...
    i have a main computer running XP Pro that i have all my music and itunes program ( my usic is stored on one spesific folder ).
    i installed a WHS yesterday and i want to be able to see and play the music when i'm away from home (from Remote Acsess page) --HOW DO i DO THAT???
    and i own an IPOD touch and will i be able to plug it in to my laptop and sync between my ipod and my itunes on my main computer? ( i mean from the LAN and from the WAN )

    can any one send me a link or a guided mail with instructions ... ( what to i need to download , where , how to install ... )


    thanks a lot,,,
    i really need a hand with that ,,,
    my email is : ok103@walla.co.il

    THANKS a LOT !!!!
    ok103
    Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:45 AM

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    ok103 said:

     

    hello all .
    i'm confusied ,,, i read a lot of posts about playing itunes on WHS and i didn't get something : what the best and easy way...
    i have a main computer running XP Pro that i have all my music and itunes program ( my usic is stored on one spesific folder ).
    i installed a WHS yesterday and i want to be able to see and play the music when i'm away from home (from Remote Acsess page) --HOW DO i DO THAT???
    and i own an IPOD touch and will i be able to plug it in to my laptop and sync between my ipod and my itunes on my main computer? ( i mean from the LAN and from the WAN )

    can any one send me a link or a guided mail with instructions ... ( what to i need to download , where , how to install ... )


    thanks a lot,,,
    i really need a hand with that ,,,
    my email is : ok103@walla.co.il

    THANKS a LOT !!!!
    ok103



    @ Headrick... ok103 stated that he already read all the itunes post. Im sure he read the one on the front page of the forum.

    @ ok103
    As far as LISTENING to your music from the WAN (internet), that cannot be achieved directly from the WHS itself, nor from the remote access page. You will be able to VIEW all of your music files if you copy them to the WHS "Music" share. But to listen to them, you would have to download each song before you listen, which would be slow and impractical.

    An alternative I would suggest would be myorb (www.orb.com). They allow you to access your media from any internet connected browser. Do some research on that if thats what you are looking for.

    As far as syncing your ipod, you will only be able to do this from LAN, not WAN. I too own an ipod touch, and store ALL of my music on my WHS "Music" share and told itunes to build my library from that directory. Itunes could care less if the music is on your local computer, or a network share, so syncing and everything works perfect and you dont have to take up space on your client PC.

    Brief summary...
    -Look into the orb service for remote access to your media (or just carry your ipod with you everywhere like I do)
    - I would move all my music from the client to the WHS "music" share for remote access and to save space on client
    - Dont try to sync your ipod from WAN
    Thursday, December 18, 2008 3:29 PM

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    see this post:

    http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/whssoftware/thread/6b705269-4503-4495-bd45-a582b0cd85a6
    Windows Home Server Team
    Thursday, December 18, 2008 2:49 PM
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    ok103 said:

     

    hello all .
    i'm confusied ,,, i read a lot of posts about playing itunes on WHS and i didn't get something : what the best and easy way...
    i have a main computer running XP Pro that i have all my music and itunes program ( my usic is stored on one spesific folder ).
    i installed a WHS yesterday and i want to be able to see and play the music when i'm away from home (from Remote Acsess page) --HOW DO i DO THAT???
    and i own an IPOD touch and will i be able to plug it in to my laptop and sync between my ipod and my itunes on my main computer? ( i mean from the LAN and from the WAN )

    can any one send me a link or a guided mail with instructions ... ( what to i need to download , where , how to install ... )


    thanks a lot,,,
    i really need a hand with that ,,,
    my email is : ok103@walla.co.il

    THANKS a LOT !!!!
    ok103



    @ Headrick... ok103 stated that he already read all the itunes post. Im sure he read the one on the front page of the forum.

    @ ok103
    As far as LISTENING to your music from the WAN (internet), that cannot be achieved directly from the WHS itself, nor from the remote access page. You will be able to VIEW all of your music files if you copy them to the WHS "Music" share. But to listen to them, you would have to download each song before you listen, which would be slow and impractical.

    An alternative I would suggest would be myorb (www.orb.com). They allow you to access your media from any internet connected browser. Do some research on that if thats what you are looking for.

    As far as syncing your ipod, you will only be able to do this from LAN, not WAN. I too own an ipod touch, and store ALL of my music on my WHS "Music" share and told itunes to build my library from that directory. Itunes could care less if the music is on your local computer, or a network share, so syncing and everything works perfect and you dont have to take up space on your client PC.

    Brief summary...
    -Look into the orb service for remote access to your media (or just carry your ipod with you everywhere like I do)
    - I would move all my music from the client to the WHS "music" share for remote access and to save space on client
    - Dont try to sync your ipod from WAN
    Thursday, December 18, 2008 3:29 PM
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    hello all

    thanks for all your replay
    i want to know something about the itunesa liabery build
    if i copied all my music from my client computer to my share folder "music" on my server ...
    how do i make the itunes rebuild the liabery ... ( like i did the first time on my client ? )
    i have installed webguide on my server and i can see my music from wan and even play (stream them ) the problem is that when copy more music files to my server i can't see them on my webguide when i lig on again ... ( it doesn't update my music list. ) - it's not perfect abd it's abit slow the buffering but it's good for me... 


    s.morrow
    i want to ask you about Orb ... can i install that on my WHS and how do i configure the program ... how can i access the music and movies from any internet ...
    please write me more about the program ,,,,
    thanks .

    i hope anyone can still help me out ...
    thanks for all your help ...

    ok103
    Thursday, January 1, 2009 11:37 AM