Ref the DHCP issue - how about if I edit them out of /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases? I want to get rid of the "h1XX.home.com" devices by assigning them a proper name statically. So once they are gone they will not come back.

I have had my hda running for about 1 month now and all looks good so it is time to fine tune it! I have a couple of questions before I start: 1. I'm running on Ubuntu 12.04 and did not take the system upgrades during the installation, do I accept them now? 2. I have a number of "dead" DHC...

Thanks for the advice . . . I may do that! I was running WHS but the hardware died and I wanted a quick replacement. I have other machines that use the shares for media streaming, backups, ftp etc and wanted a quick replacement. I may have to go for WHS 2011 just to get up and running quickly (sorry...

Many thanks for the advice, I'll re-install from scratch and leave DHCP enabled. I did delete the webmin folder in /var/hda/web-apps but the browser still hung when I tried to install webmin again, I'll try again after I've rebuilt the whole system. If I am taking the plunge and switching off DHCP i...

Need a little advice from the experts! First let me explain the background. My WHS system just died so it's time to build a proper server. I already run an asterisk system on CentOS so I'm not really a newbie but neither am I an experienced user. I'm using an Acer Nettop machine with an extra hard d...