I am often told that there is no such thing as a naive question, and thus I am encouraged to ask the following.

The documentation (wiki) states:
Introduced in VLC for iOS 2.1, Local Network discovers and lists servers found on your local network. At present, this includes UPNP media servers and FTP servers announced via Bonjour / Rendezvous. Further options will be made available in future releases. Depending on the server capability, you can both stream and/or download the stored contents.
My question is, what do I have to do to make this possible using my Windows PC, or is it something that does don apply to Windows PC based systems?