It won't run on a laptop. Daphile does, and is broadly similar to piCorePlayer. I hadn't mentioned it before because the updates have slowed down somewhat.As above - put Picoreplayer on your old laptop
That was what I was going to suggest, get everything up and running correctly on the new and then turn off or repurpose the old.Thanks for all the replies. I think it's clear keeping the Windows 10 machine as a server is a bad idea, so when get a Windows 11 machine next year, I'll do what I'm doing now and put LMS on the new PC and avoid messing about with work-arounds or having to learn Linux.
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First, if you are not a known incorporated entity, what are the chances that someone would spend resources trying to defeat your router's firewall to access your PC server and from there attack other computers on your local home network? (I assume you don't open any ports to the Internet.)I'm running LMS on the same Windows 10 laptop that I use for everyday computing functions, like posting on here, my banking etc. When Windows 10 goes out of support next year I will buy a Windows 11 computer as I really don't want to risk using an unsupported computer for financial and other functions. However, I'm thinking I could remove everything other than LMS from my current laptop but leave that on the network purely as a file server including accessing Spotify.
My question is:- what's the risk of leaving an unsupported PC on my home network even if it's only a file server and for Spotify. I have a similar issue with an older Windows 7 laptop used only for REW and an even older XP PC used for audio recordings as the sound card used only has XP drivers. I normally keep those off the network, but there are times when I might want to transfer files or look something up, so they go online occasionally.
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Basic instructions for Win10.
I skimmed too lightly. I'll remove it. Thanks for pointing it out to me.Pretty sure that link is written by AI as it's wrong.
You turn off the adapter that is providing internet access, you take the LAN connection with it, be it wireless or cable.
When you disable the WiFi 'adapter', it physically switches off the transmission/reception on the card- I do this all the time when measuring as WiFi is a source of annoying RF. Same with a cable LAN- it disables the network 'adaptor'. If you have two adaptors active windows will just pick the fastest connection to the network router. You never really have two at once. You can override the preference order in the registry, but even ordering the connections' priorities is not foolproof.
With pretty much every broadband router these days, you can block a device from getting to the internet. Doesn't mean it won't be seen if someone is able gain access to your home network in a number of possible ways. And if you plug it down with even more access rules it is a pretty useless device to keep powered up.I skimmed too lightly. I'll remove it. Thanks for pointing it out to me.
The simplest (and most stupid) way is to not configure a default gateway and DNS server on your LAN interface by using a static IP config like this:I am curious if anyone can point me to something explaining how best to keep Windows 10 machines connected to a LAN without being connected to the Internet.
From what I gather, now that the wider public is becoming aware of M$'s intention to render half the PC's on the planet obsolete at a stroke, it's likely that there will be semi-'official' methods of installing Windoze 11 on earlier platforms than Intel 8th gen. Whatever - **** M$ frankly.I'm running LMS on the same Windows 10 laptop that I use for everyday computing functions, like posting on here, my banking etc. When Windows 10 goes out of support next year I will buy a Windows 11 computer as I really don't want to risk using an unsupported computer for financial and other functions. However, I'm thinking I could remove everything other than LMS from my current laptop but leave that on the network purely as a file server including accessing Spotify.
My question is:- what's the risk of leaving an unsupported PC on my home network even if it's only a file server and for Spotify. I have a similar issue with an older Windows 7 laptop used only for REW and an even older XP PC used for audio recordings as the sound card used only has XP drivers. I normally keep those off the network, but there are times when I might want to transfer files or look something up, so they go online occasionally.
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