Checking open ports can be done using built-in tools like Command Prompt or PowerShell, which list active ports and the associated process names or identifiers. The freeware application CurrPorts by ...

You want to pass TCP traffic from one computer to another, but there’s a doggone firewall in the way. Can they both see a shared file? Turns out, that’s all you need. Well, that and some software from ...

Most people are familiar with sharing files over a network using something like SMB or NFS. These protocols work well, but they're designed for transferring files, not for treating storage on another ...