If the server is a Windows-based machine, begin the IP address or hostname with the "smb://" prefix. Click on the "Connect" button to initiate a connection.

To make the connection, open up your file manager. Click in the navigation bar and then type sftp://SERVERIP (where SERVERIP is the IP address of the remote server– Figure A). Figure A ...

Tom Fenton shows you two ways to overcome the gotchas when setting up an ODBC connection to a remote database. This article is a follow-up to one I wrote in August 2017, "How To Set Up a SQL Express ...