So, the idea is to turn an old PC into a media server – something that will allow you to listen to and watch your music and video from any networked PC in your house, and can preferably be ...

Turn Windows machine into an SFTP server To quickly get an SFTP server running on Windows, I recommend the msftpsrvr utility, free to download courtesy of the nice folks at CoreFTP.

Once you’ve decided that you really do want to turn your old computer into a media streamer and have picked Plex as the best option, you need to download the server software for Windows or macOS.

How to Connect to a Mac Server With a PC. To share files and printers on a network, Microsoft Windows uses Server Message Block -- also called Common Internet File System -- a protocol that ...

But a laptop is just as effective in performing the task. Because you probably have a lot of DVDs and music backed up on your computer, you’ll want to have lots of space on your media server ...