Turn Your Old Windows PC into File Sharing Server For Free

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  • Turn Your Old Windows PC into File Sharing Server For Free
    Today I will show you how to "Share Files Between Computers Over The Network with Docker and Portainer"
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 41

  • @ТоварищКамрадовСоциалистКоммун

    that's a nice video, but if you have an old PC and you need just a file server for your home network, then installing a lightweight linux and raising a samba share is what you might want to do. Very little resources would be required, linux is pretty safe and reliable, can work months if not years without need to restart (restart after some critical updates would be recommended though). Nextcloud and similar things are required if you need more, like sharing outside your private network

    • @paulwarner5395
      @paulwarner5395 3 місяці тому +1

      Agreed.

    • @Britec09
      @Britec09  3 місяці тому +6

      I hear what your saying, but this is a tutorial on how to do it on Windows.

  • @fourex59
    @fourex59 3 місяці тому +1

    Brian, thanks very much for presenting this. I was able to follow along pretty easily being a somewhat moderately accomplished computer user. I do have a question. When setting up the Next Cloud, how do you identify where you want the database and files to go i.e. an external drive, or second internal drive?

  • @martymoreno63
    @martymoreno63 3 місяці тому +1

    Another outstanding video. Thank you!

  • @DJStoneSteenkamp_za
    @DJStoneSteenkamp_za 3 місяці тому

    Very good once again, please do more on this setup?🎉

    • @Britec09
      @Britec09  3 місяці тому

      What would you like to see?

  • @sheldonkupa9120
    @sheldonkupa9120 3 місяці тому

    This is a great video for people who feel at home with windows. 👍 As a linux guy, i never considered doing this in windows😄 defintively learned something new!

    • @Britec09
      @Britec09  3 місяці тому +1

      Ubuntu server would be the way to go, but this is how you can do it if you must have Windows

    • @sheldonkupa9120
      @sheldonkupa9120 3 місяці тому

      @Britec09 yupp, you really filled a gap, as most youtubers focus on other OSes. Good job, there maybe a lot of reasons for keeping Windows on that machine!

  • @gamingpros1528
    @gamingpros1528 3 місяці тому +1

    Nice video bro 👍👍👍

  • @bitemykrank1970
    @bitemykrank1970 3 місяці тому

    I hate to say it, but this actually looks a LOT easier to set up and get working on Windows than on a linux machine. Getting docker working properly on ubuntu was VERY difficult

  • @GehMemories
    @GehMemories 3 місяці тому

    i might do this one day... good stuff

  • @SametKaratas-db1xu
    @SametKaratas-db1xu 3 місяці тому +3

    0:05 I use old Windows pc as discord bot hosting server with thankfully Windows Server 2022 so, I can create discord bot with large discord server member to getting faster (I think)

    • @Britec09
      @Britec09  3 місяці тому +3

      Windows Server 2022 is for more expert users, this is a simeple tutorial

    • @SametKaratas-db1xu
      @SametKaratas-db1xu 3 місяці тому +1

      @Britec09 thanks Britec09. Hopefully you are getting nice days

  • @antoniiocaluso1071
    @antoniiocaluso1071 3 місяці тому +1

    this is...AMAZING!!! thanks! I presume the "local network" doesn't require internet access, yes? sorry, old dog new trick :-)

  • @KelticLad
    @KelticLad 3 місяці тому

    nice video thanks for sharing britec

    • @Britec09
      @Britec09  29 днів тому

      Thanks for watching

  • @jpxdude
    @jpxdude 2 місяці тому

    Can you map network drives using this to share across a network with domain users effectively? I understand that Windows typically only allows a max of 20 connections to a file share. Does this get around the limitation?

  • @Can_You_Hear_Me
    @Can_You_Hear_Me 3 місяці тому +1

    filezilla server do the same job ? if not then what is the use of it ?

    • @Britec09
      @Britec09  3 місяці тому +1

      filezilla is OK just for files, but this setup does a lot more.

  • @stephenbeswick2163
    @stephenbeswick2163 3 місяці тому +1

    Hi Brian what is the minimum requirements needed on an old computer can you let us know I have an old dell pc which in installed win 10 64bit with 8gb memory will this work.steveb

  • @_AZ3994_
    @_AZ3994_ 3 місяці тому +1

    What if you have multiple users that users wanna use your file server? and users in the wan
    How to do it?

    • @SametKaratas-db1xu
      @SametKaratas-db1xu 3 місяці тому +1

      Multiple users are only if you installed Windows Server (not the original Windows version)

  • @tubeDude48
    @tubeDude48 3 місяці тому +5

    This should have been broken into, (possibly) 3 parts and more detail for those NOT familiar with what you presented here.
    Since I use all of this, no problem, but for newbies, they would be totally lost.

    • @jackburton8352
      @jackburton8352 3 місяці тому +3

      I agree this is very convoluted for anyone new.
      Not Britec's best video really does not explain what this is really useful for.

    • @Britec09
      @Britec09  3 місяці тому

      "does not explain what this is really useful for" ? I said in the video what you can do with this? watch the whole video.

    • @tubeDude48
      @tubeDude48 3 місяці тому

      @@Britec09 - I did. Don't you understand the meaning of explaining it in a way that a new person could understand? Another guy agreed with me. AGAIN! The way you presented this would be useless to a person that DOES NOT have knowledge of these programs.

    • @Britec09
      @Britec09  3 місяці тому

      If they don't understand what this is, they have videos as I showed in the video. If that is still to hard to understand, then maybe its above your level of computing experience

    • @tubeDude48
      @tubeDude48 3 місяці тому +1

      @@Britec09 What's with YOUR LEVEL! I have no problem with this, AS I said, (if you read my comment), I USE ALL THREE OF THESE PROGRAMS!! They work fine for me since I understand them. Get your facts straight!!

  • @wtre7
    @wtre7 3 місяці тому

    Can I turn my old PC into a DVR?

  • @calholli
    @calholli 3 місяці тому

    Now we're talking

  • @MrAimalsultani
    @MrAimalsultani 3 місяці тому

    you are the genius