I use the free home-use version of Teamviewer if I ever need to log into the server to restart it or change some settings. I then installed the Ubuntu version of Plex, and got my media server up and running. I stuck an extra hard drive I had that was 3 times bigger than the one she had, installed JoliOS Lubuntu (I switched from the no longer supported, Ubuntu 10.04-based Joli OS because I was having performance issues and the new Jolicloud2 interface is slow and annoys me…so far Lubuntu has been much faster and aside from one bug that I had to override, it has worked great), and set it up as a shared server on my home network. It is slow, the power button needs excessive force from a screwdriver to use, and it was not being used by us. I decided that my wife’s 6 1/2 year old laptop that was just sitting around in a drawer would be the perfect candidate. After I got it working on my main laptop, I thought it might be nice to have something running that can always be on and not have to run from my main laptop. It works in conjunction with the free Plex Media server application that runs on your computer. I came across a free channel for the Roku called Plex. The old laptop-turned server, fits nicely under my TV Since my tube TV does not have any HDMI connections, I can’t plug my laptop directly into it. This lead me to search for a solution to use my Roku to watch the videos I recorded earlier.
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