Hello
Ok, been pulling my hair out on this. We purchased a new laptop for our son and it came with Windows 8 unfortunately.
I'm trying to get it to connect to my WHS v1 and can't get it to even see the server in Network. I've looked at everything obvious to me..
Same Network - WORKGROUP
file and printer sharing is on
network discovery is on
when I try to type in "http://myserver:55000 to download the connector software, I get an Oopps page. However when I try to type in "http://10.0.1.3:55000" the Win8 laptop displays the WHS Connector setup page and I can download the software. As soon as the software is downloaded and run though it says "An error occured. This operation cannot be completed at this time. blah blah blah" This error comes up as it is searching for WHS on network.
The new laptop can see my windows 7 machine on network but not the WHS machine.
However...
I can ping the WHS machine from the Win8 laptop. At this point I'm just about ready to downgrade the stupid laptop to Win7 but I thought I'd relax, take a break and try here before doing anything too rash.