Virtual beer for the advice!
Got a powerful media server with 4 LAN ports - wanting to move HS and MailLobby to this machine to consolidate 3 machines into 1. Right now, 3 separate machines each doing the 1 specific task.
Since this is a media server, I have a lot of intranet traffic serving data to other media PC's in my house - so, I was thinking of having one LAN port configured to only allow file services and use that to serve media.
Then, have another LAN configured to serve HS - the other to serve MainLobby - but, not bind HS to a LAN because a lot of data goes from MainLobby <-> Homeseer so I would like to use localhost communication for those instances so no LAN port is used (since they are on the same machine).
So, the thinking is:
LAN 1 - Static IP, set to run server monitoring (SuperMicro) software on port 80, no file services enabled - also runs RAID card monitoring software
LAN 2 - Static IP, HS external web use (port 80 + speaker) , file services disabled
LAN 3 - Static IP, MainLobby external web use port 80, file services disabled
LAN 4 - Static IP, Only file services enabled - serves media to other PC's using \\MEDIA\MOVIES\... method on playing media files
Note when I mean static I mean intranet (192.168.1.X)... I am not using this server to do DHCP or be a router...
Any I missing something here or am I about to beat my head on a brick wall trying to get this to work? Any advise on specific settings? Running XP64 on the server box. Any suggestions to make this easier? I am also thinking of moving this to Win 7 - I have a license I just haven't had the free weekend yet.
Thanks!
Got a powerful media server with 4 LAN ports - wanting to move HS and MailLobby to this machine to consolidate 3 machines into 1. Right now, 3 separate machines each doing the 1 specific task.
Since this is a media server, I have a lot of intranet traffic serving data to other media PC's in my house - so, I was thinking of having one LAN port configured to only allow file services and use that to serve media.
Then, have another LAN configured to serve HS - the other to serve MainLobby - but, not bind HS to a LAN because a lot of data goes from MainLobby <-> Homeseer so I would like to use localhost communication for those instances so no LAN port is used (since they are on the same machine).
So, the thinking is:
LAN 1 - Static IP, set to run server monitoring (SuperMicro) software on port 80, no file services enabled - also runs RAID card monitoring software
LAN 2 - Static IP, HS external web use (port 80 + speaker) , file services disabled
LAN 3 - Static IP, MainLobby external web use port 80, file services disabled
LAN 4 - Static IP, Only file services enabled - serves media to other PC's using \\MEDIA\MOVIES\... method on playing media files
Note when I mean static I mean intranet (192.168.1.X)... I am not using this server to do DHCP or be a router...
Any I missing something here or am I about to beat my head on a brick wall trying to get this to work? Any advise on specific settings? Running XP64 on the server box. Any suggestions to make this easier? I am also thinking of moving this to Win 7 - I have a license I just haven't had the free weekend yet.
Thanks!
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