Hi folks,
Grateful for your thoughts here.
For surfing internet, online banking, purchasing/downloading music etc, I currently use a desktop computer running Windows Vista Home Premium SP2, connected wirelessly to my BT Homehub router via a Netgear USB adapter.
I have recently purchased some Yamaha multi-room speakers & hifi system. The Yamaha MusicCast app can be used on your phone/tablet to connect each Yamaha device to my router, and thereby enabling the Yamaha devices to 'speak to each other' and play the same music in sync. Music is sent to the Yamaha devices by selecting the preferred source (e.g music stored on phone or music stored on a server etc etc) within the MusicCast app.
Now, I wish to use a 'server' (loosely termed) to store all my digital music, which would then be available for selection within the MusicCast app on my phone and tablet. For this, I have two old laptops doing nothing; 1 is windows XP SP3, the other I have just re-installed windows XP SP2 using my back-up disc created when I bought/setup the laptop about 10 years ago! The 'music server laptop' will not be used for anything other than to sit & store digital music to feed the app (no internet browsing etc etc). This only works because the MusicCast app can 'speak to' Windows Media Player (version 11 or later) if media sharing is enabled within WMP installed on the laptop. My plan is to connect the 'music server laptop' directly to the router by ethernet cable, rather than wirelessly, so that the app can stream from the laptop more reliably.
How can I optimise security, given that I am proposing to have a Windows XP laptop in my 'home network' ? Is there a way that I can to connect the laptop to the router by ethernet cable for the purpose of creating a 'home network' for my music, but not have it connected to the internet since XP now has security issues due to no more updates? I would like to be able to transfer digital music files to the laptop from my 'wireless desktop' across my wireless home network, but I have no need to be able to access anything (even the internet) from the laptop.
Further, rather than have XP SP2 on one laptop, would it be fairly simple to create a back-up disk from my XP SP3 laptop and use that to install SP3 on my current SP2 laptop?? I wouldn't bother if it is too complex an operation as I have limited knowledge/time/patience to figure these things out.
Thanks in advance.
Grateful for your thoughts here.
For surfing internet, online banking, purchasing/downloading music etc, I currently use a desktop computer running Windows Vista Home Premium SP2, connected wirelessly to my BT Homehub router via a Netgear USB adapter.
I have recently purchased some Yamaha multi-room speakers & hifi system. The Yamaha MusicCast app can be used on your phone/tablet to connect each Yamaha device to my router, and thereby enabling the Yamaha devices to 'speak to each other' and play the same music in sync. Music is sent to the Yamaha devices by selecting the preferred source (e.g music stored on phone or music stored on a server etc etc) within the MusicCast app.
Now, I wish to use a 'server' (loosely termed) to store all my digital music, which would then be available for selection within the MusicCast app on my phone and tablet. For this, I have two old laptops doing nothing; 1 is windows XP SP3, the other I have just re-installed windows XP SP2 using my back-up disc created when I bought/setup the laptop about 10 years ago! The 'music server laptop' will not be used for anything other than to sit & store digital music to feed the app (no internet browsing etc etc). This only works because the MusicCast app can 'speak to' Windows Media Player (version 11 or later) if media sharing is enabled within WMP installed on the laptop. My plan is to connect the 'music server laptop' directly to the router by ethernet cable, rather than wirelessly, so that the app can stream from the laptop more reliably.
How can I optimise security, given that I am proposing to have a Windows XP laptop in my 'home network' ? Is there a way that I can to connect the laptop to the router by ethernet cable for the purpose of creating a 'home network' for my music, but not have it connected to the internet since XP now has security issues due to no more updates? I would like to be able to transfer digital music files to the laptop from my 'wireless desktop' across my wireless home network, but I have no need to be able to access anything (even the internet) from the laptop.
Further, rather than have XP SP2 on one laptop, would it be fairly simple to create a back-up disk from my XP SP3 laptop and use that to install SP3 on my current SP2 laptop?? I wouldn't bother if it is too complex an operation as I have limited knowledge/time/patience to figure these things out.
Thanks in advance.
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