Unable to see WD TV Live Hub on Network

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Hi,

I purchased a WD TV Live Hub last week.

At first everything worked fine. The hub was showing in the network list on my pc. I use a wired connection.

I could access all files in my shared folders on my pc when I selected Network Share as source.

Yesterday I selected “Media Server” instead of “Network Share”. I could connect to the pc and it showed my pc as [computer name]:[username]

Then I went back to Network Share. Suddenly my pc wasn’t showing in the list, but there was a message that said “no storage present”. Also the hub had dissapeared from the network list on my pc. It is still in the list of media devices though, 2 times as WDTV Live Hub and once as “LARRY-PC:Larry:”

Here is a screenshot of my current network situation.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/5/networksf.jpg/

I resetted and restarted the hub, my router and my pc multiple times with no result.

Both are in the same groupname (WORKGROUP).

I can still access the hub’s web interface on my pc when typing it’s ip address.

All internet services do work well.

Please help! Thanks!

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See if this tutorial for troubleshooting helps:

http://community.wdc.com/t5/Networking/Troubleshooting-Windows-File-Sharing/m-p/92642#U92642

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Thank you.

I tried “net view” on my PC and got an error 1168.

I found that the service “Computer Browser” needed to be started. So I changed it’s setting to start automatic.

After this I rebooted my pc and ran the command “net view” again. Now it worked. The hub was showing in my network list and I could access my pc’s shared folders again from the hub.

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Awesome.  Thanks for the follow-up.