I have just picked up a new PC and want to turn my old system into a headless, dedicated media server. I have a few questions around that. 1. I have Windows 11 Home on the old system. I need something ...

Windows Subsystem for Android has added support for local file sharing. The feature allows users to share their files with Android apps. As the latest OS developed by Microsoft, Windows 11 provides ...

I've been on a bit of a NAS kick lately, and discovering the world of apps you can host on your own server has been challenging and rewarding in equal amounts. One of the cooler apps I've had the ...

The Windows Subsystem for Android that allows some of our favorite apps to run on Windows 11 isn’t perfect, though it’s been steadily improving since its public release last year. Now Android apps in ...

A new Steam Deck feature could allow for game and file sharing between your PC Steam client and the handheld device, as code strings in the latest Steam update apparently point to Valve finally ...

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion introduces a new feature in the Finder named AirDrop, designed for easy file sharing between nearby systems. AirDrop has nothing in common with DropBox, a cloud-based file sharing ...

I have had this problem in the past and it is back again. I have even done some best practice things to make things work and they do, in one direction. My desktop can see my wife's desktop and my ...

Ever since Bram Cohen invented BitTorrent, Web traffic has never been the same. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, however, is a matter of debate. Peer-to-peer networking, or P2P, has become ...

If you have more than one Linux computer, you probably use ssh all the time. It is a great tool, but I’ve always found one thing about it strange. Despite having file transfer capabilities in the form ...

Apple was the first computer company to make networked file sharing easy. Decades after introducing that feature on the Mac, it’s less important in an era of cloud storage. Unless you’re on a ...

As Penn State fights public disclosure of board documents, at least two trustees do not have access to the board’s file-sharing service.