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Where did you do the port forwarding? Port forwarding must be done on the router. Not the computer. Once you set the port forward on the router, remote access will work. Use a different port when using remote access. Make up one in the 5 digit range as the destination port. Then map that port to 32400 on your LAN, along with the static IP address of your server. Port forwarding instructions are dependent on what router you have. Look up the model of router you have to find out how to do port forwarding.

Most of the time, you'll probably be direct playing (no transcoding) your media files. The times that you probably will be transcoding is if the device your playing your media files on is one that doesn't support a codec that the media files are encoded as when your ripping your DVDs & Blu-Rays. Or when you are remote streaming. Or when you want to upscale (720p to 1080p and etc) or downscale (1080p to 720p and etc). If you search on Youtube Byte My Bits, (if not allow to mention another channel, please remove), you will find him doing a ton of Plex server videos. It's how I learned most of Plex when I first got started.

PCI-E booting (Essentially NVMe) didn't come into play until the Haswell refresh (Z97 era). NVMe drives will only show up as general storage on anything that doesn't support NVMe/PCI-E booting. As others have said, buying a RAID card is the best option given the specs you have provided.

Alright then... I'm on my work computer so ignore the domain parts if visible... Open Network and Sharing center > Change advanced sharing settings. Make sure both computers are on the Private profile. Make sure that the settings are set to this. Create a folder on a drive on either one. Right click > Properties. Click sharing. Then click Advanced Sharing. Click Share this folder. Click Permissions. Check full control under allow. Click security. Make sure that the account you want to use has read, read/write, or write, access to the folder you want to share, your preference. Open file explorer > network You should then see your computer. Double click it. Enter the account credentials of that computer. If you don't want to enter account credentials, that involves editing local GPO to have access authorized through the Guest account, granted you have a Windows version that is Pro or higher. You've achieved network folder sharing and can share files at the speed of your local network, be it 10Mbit, 100Mbit, or 1 Gbit.

This would have worked but the update only applies to Server 2016, not Server 2012 R2. I looked for a similar update for 2012 R2 but the update I found that contains the same as the 2016 update didn't install since there is an update that has superseded it. I think I'm going to try and move the KMS from 2012 R2 to a 2016 server and try again. That would be a better result I would hope. I'm going to patch the 2016 server with the update you linked, if it doesn't do it via WU. Thank you for the link!

This is for work, just for starters. I'm reaching out to other net or server admins that might have any ideas or are in the same position as I am. If this post should be in under Windows Operating Systems, feel free to move it or delete/lock it so that I can post it there. Felt that it was server related so it's posted here. LTSC = Long Term Service Channel (Was LTSB) So, Server 2019 and Windows 10 LTSC 2019 are out. Awesome. I'm trying to do heavy testing of LTSC 2019 before I have a mass deployment to our student machines in the summer '19. The one problem I'm stuck on is getting the licensing and activation going correctly. Currently, our KMS host resides on a Server 2012 R2 domain controller (Not looking to upgrade for a while longer, such stability) that has a Server 2016 KMS volume key installed. This is working great but does not activate LTSC 2019. I have read countless support articles from Microsoft and multiple posts on Technet, but I can't seem to find an answer. Pictured below is the working Server 2016 KMS key on a Server 2012 R2 running slmgr.vbs /dlv. Note that it says what is circled in red. IDs and partial product key hidden. When I install our Server 2019 KMS key, it should do the same thing as circled in picture above except change from WS16 to WS19, but it doesn't. Pictured below in red. This should work according to Microsoft's documentation, linked here and a Technet blog post here. (Yes, the KMS host server has the latest updates and the KB updates listed in the Technet link) I'm struggling with an answer. I know that Server 2019 and LTSC 2019 just got re-released yesterday and I'm probably tackling this project too early on. I have reached to Microsoft but I didn't get anywhere with the VLSC support, probably not the right place to go to. Tomorrow I'm reaching out again and see if there is a different solution from Microsoft but I wanted to reach out to the LTT community and see if anyone has either ran into this problem and found a solution or is in the same boat as I am. Thank you for any help!

Just roll back to 1709.. I had to on my HTPC since 1803 always crashed my games that I play after 10-30 minutes. After reinstalling 1709, since I was past the grace period to roll back, installed my apps and games and never had a single crash again.

I just set up my home server with Windows Server 2016 (thanks school licensing!) running Plex and a couple of other services that need to run 24/7 while I have my desktop turned off. I have a synology NAS that house my movies and I have a mapped drive in Windows that Plex reads off of. TV shows are stored on the server itself and this setup works perfect without issue.

1. Buy your own. You will end up saving money in the long run. 2. Stick away from built-in router. I've had bad experiences. You don't get as much customization in a built-in as you do with a standalone. 3. Modem: http://goo.gl/WtKkNt Router: http://goo.gl/zJ6pxG Both are on sale. With LTT affiliate code. (Hopefully it took..)

60 GB Corsair Force LS. Paid $44 Windows 8.1 with every updtae Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 15 essential programs and apps Turned off page file, hybernate file, cleaned of junk files using Ccleaner and Disk cleaner (built-in Windows) Code for turning hybernate file in elevated command prompt powercfg -h off Still have plenty of room for more programs Though I have a 120 GB SSD for some games, 500 GB for VMs, and 2 TB external 3.0 for docs and Steam games Really, if you just have Windows and programs that you need and want, you'll be okay

I found a pre-made VMware hackintosh and used that in VMware Workstation on Windows to download a clean Mavericks and used Unibeast to install it on my flash drive Worked really nicely

Routers handle static IPs to clients. Not software Get a Cisco router and a switch and throw DD-WRT on the router. I think it handles static IP addresses to clients much easier. Or do what capawesome9870 posted and have the pfSense router connected to a switch

Didn't get a notification for your reply If you decide to not want to have OS X on the drive, wipe it in Windows with Disk Management or if you wanna get geeky, Diskpart in CMD You don't need to reset your motherboard. It will decide what to boot to. If not, change it back manually

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Sure will. Just disconnect the drive that has Windows 8 before doing anything. If it ends up not working after install, just back up files and such and reinstall Windows.