Can my external hard drive be my server for plex?
As far as I understand, Plex can be used in several ways.It can be used as a media server (multimedia) program on a computer in which the external drive would be storage for your files. In this case you could say that its a file server, although "server" wouldnt be the proper term. If you are thinking this way, your network would have to be up to the task of getting the files off of the external drive and then your computer would act as the actual "server" on your network sending files to the devices that you want them to.Some routers allow you to connect your external drive to it and plex running on various devices would access the files on your external drive through your router serving them up to the various devices you want to view multimedia on.Your external drive can also be used in conjunction with various smart tv's running plex, connect your external drive to your tv. Is that what you mean?If you want plex to be installed on your external drive and then without any other connection be used as a server, no. Its not a server. There are now external drives with wifi that would give the illusion that its a server because plex running on a device would access the external wirelessly serving up your multimedia enjoyment.So plex must be installed somewhere in the chain in order for it to work. Whether its Roku, Samsung, PC or the others. Installing plex on your external would only allow you to use plex when its connected to your pc - as an external drive. Just in case you consider doing this, I think that it would be more efficient to install plex on your pc and use the external as media storage. Although it would work.
My co-worker gave me gay porn through an external hard drive?
I live in a country where it has zero tolerance of homosexuality and one may get punished if they are involved in such activity. I have started a new job and been working at it for about six months, I came to know a few people from other departments -its huge company- and found many people who share my interests, one of them being TV shows and documentaries. One particular co-worker has many of the interests that I have and last week he came to my office and gave me a hard drive that contained: "many great shows and documentaries" and I said ok... I didn't get to it till now but when I hooked it up to my PC I found 50+ folders and one of them is a hard-core gay porn I have nothing against gay people, its the opposite actually, I am all for gay rights all over the world. The problem is I don't know if he knew about it or not, and I don't know if he wanted to send me a massage or not. what should I do here, its a bit of a dilemma.
How to hide files on an external hard drive when plugged in to the tv?
You can go into the Control Panel and click on "Appearance and Personalization" (in Category view) and then click on "Folder Options." Now, click on the "View" tab near the top of the page and you should see "Hidden Files and Folders" about five lines down. Click on "Don't show hidden files, folders, and drives." Now, if you are on "Small or large icon" view in the Control Panel it will be a little different. In this view you'll see a direct link to "Folder Options" on the left side about six lines down. My O/S is Windows 7, it should be similar with Windows XP, etc. Hope this helps!
Can I connect my external hard drive via usb to my router and reach that drive via Wi-Fi somehow?
Your router has a very limited and specialized operating system, your USB external drive has none. You may have Windows or Linux loaded on your drive, but the most important OS is missing, the BIOS, or hardware boot instructions found on a little chip called the CMOS. These little wonders found in every computer, tablet, phone and other like device, has a hardcoded instruction that reads on boot so your device can recognize its own hardware and access it. The BIOS needs to start so it can read the hard drive, so Windows can be started.Plus, your drive has no means of identification on the network. No IP address, no true interface. Routers deal only with network traffic. No IP, no access.The Router has its own set of instructions and boot system. But its operating system is specifically for routing network traffic. Good, high end routers have a very complex OS, but it is normally written for the specific router, does not have the ability to seek and install new hardware, does not have drivers for anything other than the router, and specifically handles packets and requests. Low end, household routers are much more limited in scope, with software that is designed for simple routing, so the OS is even less powerful. They usually have switching capabilities, but not much else.So, no, you can't just connect a USB drive to a router and use it as a network area storage, especially is this is for a home environment. You need to attach it to a device that can 1. Boot the drive with the correct drivers for access, and 2. Provide the means of accessing the network, specifically with protocols and addresses.
Can I use my external HD with both Mac and pc at the same time without formatting?
Yes, but it depends on how you define “both.”Do you want to plug the drive into a PC some of the time, and into a Mac some of the time without formatting ?Or, do you mean access the hard drive simultaneously via both PC and Mac ?Assuming the First Option:Most people who use both a Mac and a PC run into the problem where they plug the Mac hard drive into the PC and it can’t read it.This problem is due to Windows not recognising the disk formatting type.If you format your hard drive using exFAT it will let you read and write on both a PC and Mac, steps on how to do this on a PC are here.The only hassle involved is that you need to format the drive to change it to exFAT, and formatting will wipe the drive’s contents, so make a backup of it first.If you can’t or don’t want to format the hard drive first, as an alternative option, you can use one of the tools available at Paragon Software.Paragon Software makes 2 tools that I have used extensively as a computer repairer, pick the scenario you want to solve:1) I want to use a PC to Read and write to Apple formatted HFS+ hard drives2) I want to use a Mac to read and write to PC formatted NTFS hard drivesAssuming the Second Option:To be able to access one hard drive simultaneously via both a PC and a Mac, you would be best to use a NAS (Network Attached Storage) which is a box that holds multiple hard drives, and has a network port, so you can plug it into your router, and it becomes visible on the network to other computers connected to the network. You can then read and write from any computers on the network.There are also some wireless hard drives that have WiFi built in, but this will offer the slowest transfer speed of the above solutions, and is the least reliable option so I wouldn’t use it in this scenario.
Is it possible to access an external hard drive from two computers at the same time?
Well... everywhere I live, I open up my work machine as a server for the house, and I share the movie drives. Got lost in thought there for a moment thinking about how that sounds... everywhere I live. And... realizing the number of different places I've done this now.I digress. I share storage on one computer on the network. Quite often, I'm watching a movie while someone else was watching a movie. To the best of my knowledge, I've never watched the same movie on two different computers at the same time off the same drive. Wait... that's not completely true. I was watching a movie on the work machine, and reading a movie site on this one. I started answering a question about the movie, and called up the movie in VLC on this computer, and pulled a few screen shots from it.. while the same file was playing in VLC on the other computer.So. Yes.
I went to plug my hard drive into my router and the router says that it is unmounted.?
The router has a LINUX OS using the SAMBA server to mount and share NTFS or FAT32 formatted file systems like for Windows PCs (LINUX is ext3). The impossibility to mount a disk according to the SAMBA documentation is most likely caused by the HD having been mounted on a Windows Computer and not having been removed "securely". Windows "flags" those HDs as "in use" and just drawing the plug gives Windows no time to remove the flag. SAMBA then is not able to access or mount it.solution: plug it as external HD to a Windows PC and remove it "securely" then. Windows then removes the flag and SAMBA (or the router) is able to mount it. Question: In which "wall" can a hard drive be plugged in?
How do watch movies from my hard drive on my tv?
I heard a lot of people online talk about how they did away with all their dvds and watch movies only off their hard drive but how do they do it? I tried watching movies off of my hardrive and some movies skip a lot . They are vob files and I'm trying to watch them on my 50 inch Samsung plasma it's and older HD tv. I asked around and a lot of people told me an external hard drive was never meant for watching movies on a TV because the TV can't decode the data fast enough. So how do other people do it?
How do I send videos (files) wireless from PC to Android TV equipped with an external HDD and Kodi?
Hi,You can use the android application SFTTV (Send files to Tv).It is easy to use, just install the application on both your TV and your mobile device.Both devices have to be connected to the same Wifi network.The application is available on the Google playstore, the Amazon Store and aptoide Store. Check the website for more details : https://sendfilestotv.app