For the past several years, I've used a custom-built file server at my house. I've upgraded it many times, but it began life, as near as I can recall, in April 2000. When I say "upgraded", I mean the ...

Mention the phenomenon called Shadow IT — and someone will likely mention Dropbox. Shadow IT happens when departments or individual employees use technologies that aren’t sanctioned by IT — something ...

Setting up a file server doesn't need to be complicated. With three desktop machines (Kubuntu, Win XP and a testbed, which is currently running ReactOS) and a laptop (Xubuntu) in use at home, our IT ...

If you've been working with networks for any length of time, you've no doubt had a server's hard disk fill up, which usually means it's time to have users clear out files they no longer use. You can ...

We plan to build our own client/server network composed of Windows 2000 File Server, Exchange Server and Firewall Server. Can you direct me to documentation on the pros and cons of keeping these as ...

Upload and download files on your home PC from anywhere by turning it into a personal FTP server. With a home FTP server, you can upload and download files on your home hard drive from the office, ...

for playing media files across the network on my television and sound system. However, leaving my primary computer on all the time seemed like a waste of energy. I wanted a cheap, small headless ...

My current XBMC box has taken a big hit, having 2 of 3 drives fail on me. While I am busy trying to recover my 3TB movie drive, I got my current box working again with a new OS drive and some existing ...

Virtual machine programs such as VMWare allow you to quickly install a number of different operating systems on one machine. The majority of these virtual machine programs allow you to load an ISO, or ...