Hi there. Ive ben having this problem for weeks now and have been able to find no solutions through various google and other searches. Ive had my WDTV live for almost 3 years now. Ive always connected to my laptop over a network share. I watch almost exclusively MKV files on it and until recently …

smb = samba = cifs = windows shares those are all names for th same thing since we now know you’re on windows you’ll want to look at the file permissions, and make sure it says “inherited” as in it takes whatever permissions were set on the folder if it’s not “inherited” then the permissions are…

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"unable to play selected file" only on network share

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JoeySmyth January 14, 2015, 11:37pm 13

so it was “Permissions” related after all