Cant figure out how to login to the PC

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Ok, so I know this is the rookie question of the day, but setting up networks is beyond me.

I bought the WD Live hub so that we could access the music & pictures on the server computer in the basement…That computer shows up on the WD Hub, and visa versa…When I try to listen to music the WD asks me to Login to the PC…and asks me for a username and password…Where on my PC do I set that up?.. Windows 7 SP1 btw…

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It would be any account on the Win7 box that has access to that share. So although not a good practice, you could use the same name/password combination that you login to your Win7 box, since assumedly that is an admin account that has accesss to all of the shares and directories.

Best practice would be to add an account to the Win7 box specifically use for your HUB and other devices to connect to the shares on the computer. When you share out data/folders, you will need to make sure that you have assigned the correct permissions.

-P

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CollingsBob wrote:
Ok, so I know this is the rookie question of the day, but setting up networks is beyond me.

I bought the WD Live hub so that we could access the music & pictures on the server computer in the basement…That computer shows up on the WD Hub, and visa versa…When I try to listen to music the WD asks me to Login to the PC…and asks me for a username and password…Where on my PC do I set that up?.. Windows 7 SP1 btw…

It appears obvious that your shares are not properly set up on the WD player.  See this post; it should solve your problem.  If not, then something else is wrong; most likely on the PC side of things.

How to resolve Network shares access problems

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#2 worked for me, Thanks very much… WD doesnt recognize any of the music on the hard drive however. The music is organized by iTunes, and iphone/ipad compatible…Is that the issue?

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Are you getting the “there is no media in the current folder” message?

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Yes - …I am now in the middle of transferring 800 gig of music into the internal drive in the hopes that it is an itunes related issue

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1.  If your music  in iTunes is from iTunes store and is copy-protected, the WD player cannot play it.

  1. All my music on the WD player’s drive is from my iTunes folder and none of it is copy-protected, and it all of it is playable.

3.  800GB of music is a LOT of music.  I have “a lot”, too, 80GB of music, and it takes over an hour for Windows to process it for sharing.  Your situation will take HOURS to do same.  So, read and follow what is discussed here.  It helped someone last week who had a similar problem as you have:

“There is no media in the current folder.” (Oh yes there is!)