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Once you have updated the scope, select theOKbutton to commit the change.

In my case, I added the slash notationÂ of theÂ subnet for my wireless network (eg.

If you know the address boundaries of your subnets, then click the Add button and add either the slash notation for the subnet address in the top box, or selectÂ This IP Address Range and enter your starting and ending addresses.

If you are unsure of the address boundaries of your subnets, then the easiest thing is to change this from Remote IP Address Local Subnet to Remote IP Address Any IP Address, although I don’t recommend this configuration.

For each of these services, open the properties, and select the Scope tab.

Scroll through the list of rules until you find the block listing the following services:.

From the remote session, open Windows Firewall with Advanced Security from Control Panel Administrative Tools.Anyone unsure of using Remote Desktop probably isn’t a great candidate for making firewall configuration changes either). (If you are unsure of how to do this, then you can find this elsewhere online. Start a Remote Desktop Services session to the server and logon as the Home Server Administrator account.It’s wise to point out now that Microsoft don’t support this modification, however it’s such a small change that I would argue Microsoft would be crazy to deny support for an end-user based on the change and it would be very easy to change back to default if they did complain. This causes problems for Windows Home Server 2011 Connectors installed on your client computers running Windows XP, 7, 8 or Macs as out of the box, they can’t communicate with the Home Server and complete their daily scheduled backup jobs leaving you unprotected.įortunately, this is fixed very easily with a quick Remote Desktop onto the server. Windows Home Server 2011 is a great product for home use, but it’s design is centred around homes with very basic single subnet flat networks.Ī lot of home networking devices shipping these days give you the ability to separate your wired network and wireless network into separate VLANs, such as Linksys products which by use 192.168.1.1 for the wired network and 192.168.2.1 for the wireless network by default when the feature is enabled, or there are geeks like me who run their homes like a miniature enterprise with router-on-a-stick topologies or even vast OSI Layer 3 switched networks.