Im not entirely sure how Ive done it but I have registered the WDTV Live to the WORKGROUP on my PC.I think I did this by factory resetting the WDTV Live and then disabling the firewall (standard windows firewall on my pc). The WDTV Live now shows on my network devices list as being inthe same WORKGROUP as the PC.
Using the tests in TonyPh12345’s post linked above I return the following results (mine is a very simple system just my PC named “computer” and the WDTV live)
- Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.
C:\USERS\PAUL>nbtstat -a computer
Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.0.8] Scope Id:
NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table
Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
COMPUTER <00> UNIQUE Registered
WORKGROUP <00> GROUP Registered
COMPUTER <20> UNIQUE Registered
WORKGROUP <1E> GROUP Registered
WORKGROUP <1D> UNIQUE Registered
…__MSBROWSE__.<01> GROUP Registered
MAC Address = 00-24-21-AB-11-63
and
- C:\USERS\PAUL>nbtstat -a wdtvlive
Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.0.8] Scope Id:
NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table
Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
WDTVLIVE <00> UNIQUE Registered
WDTVLIVE <03> UNIQUE Registered
WDTVLIVE <20> UNIQUE Registered
WORKGROUP <1E> GROUP Registered
WORKGROUP <00> GROUP Registered
MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00
For the item 2 test I get the following
- C:\USERS\PAUL>net view \computer
- Shared resources at \computer
- Share name Type Used as Comment
- Movies Disk
- My Pictures Disk
- Public Disk
- Videos Disk
- The command completed successfully.
Now if I go into the WDTV Live menu and select networks shares>windows it prompts me for the username (no password and the it lists all of those shared folders but it says that each and everyone of them has no media content, I have checked on the PC and this is not the case all the files and subfolders are there.
What I cant understand is that all of this worked perfectly out of thebox for 2 days and I changed nothing before it all went wrong.
Can anyone help???
