Share Files and Folders

Applies To: Windows Home Server 2011

By sharing folders, everyone on your home network can access the data that is in those folders. The shared folder can contain applications, documents, pictures, music, and other media files. Windows Home Server 2011 provides a central location for all of the shared folders on your home network.

Manage your shared folders

This section includes topics that help you understand shared folders and provides step-by-step instructions about how to access them from the server.

• Understanding shared folders

• Accessing shared folders

• Move, delete, or rename files and folders in Remote Web Access

• Upload and download files in Remote Web Access

• Download media files from the server

Use shared folders

This section includes topics that will help you view pictures, play videos, create slide shows or playlists, and play media files away from home.

• View pictures and create slideshows in Remote Web Access

• Play songs and create playlists in Remote Web Access

• Play videos in Remote Web Access

• Play shared media files when I am away from home