Ask most anyone who runs Windows at home what edition of the operating system he or she is using, and odds are you’ll hear a fairly predictable roster of responses: Windows XP Home, XP Professional, ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo points you in the general direction of how to access your home network remotely using a Dynamic DNS service. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since ...

You're right, there are a ton of options out there, and we've written about many of them in the past—but we've never really compared them to one another. So, here are a few of our favorite options, ...

Things don’t always go according to plan when using any networking hardware or software, and Windows Home Server (WHS) is no exception. If you run into trouble installing or using WHS or the Windows ...

Ask any Linux enthusiast, and they’ll tell you how awesome an operating system Linux can be. (Well, except Bryan Lunduke, who will say it sucks before he says it’s awesome.) For the desktop user, the ...

Ever since the announcement of the Raspberry Pi, sites all across the Internet have offered lots of interesting and challenging uses for this exciting device. Although all of those ideas are great, ...

Sure, you can get a network attached storage device, or rely on somebody's cloud — but, I've run a Mac-based home server for a very long time. Why have I kept one running, and why should you start one ...

If you’re running Home Assistant on a server that’s not easily accessible, you might be interested in making the platform’s files more easily accessible via a network share. This is pretty easy to do, ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Have an old PC lying around that no one is using? You might want to consider converting it into a media streaming server. There was a time when people had separate devices for everything. The TV was ...