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.

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 ...

Sick of paying for every streaming service just to have all your favorite shows and movies? Build your own Plex server, so you can stream your media library to multiple devices and users.