OK, it was one of those moments of tired madness but I have locked myself out of my HP MSS/WHS. I have spent the last week configuring it exactly as I want it and then was finally trying to install some tape backup SW with a SCSI tape drive connected to another machine on my home network. The 2 machines wouldn't talk and I suspected the WHS firewall was blocking the traffic. I am unfamiliar with the built in windows firewall but did remembered that you can get it to block everything (don't allow exceptions) and report connection attempts to help my diagnosis. Yes, you guessed it, this shut down the remote desktop connection and the WHS Console effectively locking me out.
My fallback plan would be to use the HP recovery disks but I guess these will re-install the WHS OS (drive C) so loosing all my configs (including a vmware virtual machines serving my home music system). However, it has struck me that I could attach a USB keyboard and, flying blind, could go in and unblock the firewall.
Plea for help: Could someone provide the keyboard presses required to login, bring up the firewall and untick the "don't allow exceptions" box?
Any other ideas gratefully received.
Thanks in advance.
My fallback plan would be to use the HP recovery disks but I guess these will re-install the WHS OS (drive C) so loosing all my configs (including a vmware virtual machines serving my home music system). However, it has struck me that I could attach a USB keyboard and, flying blind, could go in and unblock the firewall.
Plea for help: Could someone provide the keyboard presses required to login, bring up the firewall and untick the "don't allow exceptions" box?
Any other ideas gratefully received.
Thanks in advance.