XP home or Pro for server

[AJ Bertelson]

Starting to put the server parts together and wondering witch on is better for a sagetv server. I will use vnc for remote use and will only be sharing the tv directory with one other computer and streaming to the rest.

[fidget]

Originally posted by AJ Bertelson
Starting to put the server parts together and wondering witch on is better for a sagetv server. I will use vnc for remote use and will only be sharing the tv directory with one other computer and streaming to the rest.

I have been using XP home for my server without any problems. I also use RealVNC to control the server from other areas in the house.

[SuperG]

fidget,

How much RAM should you have for a Sage server?

[EncoderHouse]

Ram is cheap go with 512MB

[fidget]

Originally posted by EncoderHouse
Ram is cheap go with 512MB

That's what I did

[dvsing]

I'm running XP Pro for my SageTV server, and for my SageTV Client. I use Windows XP Pro's Remote desktop connection to do remote administration when I need to.

[salsbst]

Just as an aside, I was able to run Sage v2 beta as a server with 2 tuners and 2 clients on a P3 600MHz with 128MB RAM.


*In fact, it was upgrading the RAM to 640MB that totally killed my server, but that wasn't SageTV's fault. I would have left well enough alone but this machine was also supposed to be an IIS server and Windows was rather sluggish.

[stanger89]

Go with Pro, Home has File and Printer Sharing crippled, it is not possible (AFAIK) to set share permissions on a per-user basis with Home, it's everybody or nobody.

[IVB]

But for home use, why would that matter? Is there a need to not allow a particular family member to print or view a file?