Old laptops or PCs lying around may seem like a waste of space and a catch basin for dust, but they may still have a purpose to turn it into a powerful Windows server that could work wonders for users ...

Hello, Ars! Long time lurker here, first time poster. Not sure if this is the correct forum for this, so please move it if it's not. As the title states, I'd like to set up a personal media server on ...

Hi guys and gals,<BR><BR>I have a funky new radio (Pure Evoke Flow) that has wireless networking, allowing you to connect to media servers and play music off of them.<BR><BR>I have Windows 7 on my ...

When you think of media streaming, be it music, TV shows, or movies, there’s a slew of applications to pick ranging from Spotify, Amazon Music, or SoundCloud, for music, and Disney+, Hotstar, Prime ...

Windows Home Server blesses this highly capable unit with features, but curses it with unnecessary complexity. The Hewlett-Packard MediaSmart Server ex487 stands tall, with four drive bays–two with a ...

The protocols used by media servers for discovering files are typically Bonjour and UPnP. For example, iTunes uses Bonjour to discover and DAAP to share, while Windows Media Player uses UPnP and ...

In a story I wrote for Computerworld in January, which was a review of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4, I mentioned Windows Server’s new support for Hyper-V containers that had been added to ...