WD TV Live, problems with Network shares. Can't find the files in the folders

After a fresh reinstall of Windows I had similar issues in that my WD TV Live wouldn’t pick up my networked hard drives over LAN.

I checked the forums…like this one, and tried many different  possible solutions, including renaming files and drives and resetting the WD player with a paper clip but no luck.

My cure? I unplugged the power from the back of the unit, disconnected the LAN cable, and gave it a minute, reconnected things, fired it up, and it immediately detected my  two drives with my media. A couple of other little glitches were cured by a hard reset,