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I figured it out. On VLC I did NOT want to select Stream. I needed to select (duh) Local Network.
Everything's lovely.

I installed UMS yesterday (Windows 10, Microsoft Surface Pro 2) and in not too many minutes I had all the media on my computer available on the Roku Stick in the living room. Brilliant! Windows Media Center/Server never did much and when it did, it was painfully slow and difficult to deal with.

Now ...