WD TV Live cant access WHS fileserver after router upgrade

[dar124]

I’ve had my WD TV Live for a couple of years, and after a bit of initial configuring things have worked good with it.

But, I recently upgraded my router to a TP-Link TL-WDR3600 and now I cant access the media on my WHS server. I have the WD TV connected with a network cable from the router. I verified that the WD TV box has an IP address (ran thru its network test, verified it has an IP address and that the NIC is flashing). But when I try to set the content source as my WHS server, the server doesnt show up. My desktop PC shows up in the box, but not the fileserver. I can get to my server from my desktop PC, so I know that the server is online, etc. I read another post on this forum asking if the WD TV was set for a static IP address. That makes sense, if it was set like that it’d be looking at a different IP address than the new router currently has. But I’m not even sure how to check to see if it’s set as a static IP??

Thanks in advance for any other suggestions.

[ArMak]

Hi there and welcome to the WD community.

You should be able to see the network settings once you go on the settings for the media player, there you can set a static IP for the device.

[dar124]

Ok, I looked again and did find the newtork options / info.  The WD TV Live IP address is set to automatic.  And after compairing the TP-Link router page and the WD TV Live network settings page I think it’s getting a good address.

Router info

IP Address:	192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask:	255.255.255.0

WD TV info

IP Address:	192.168.0.102
Subnet Mask:   DNS	255.255.255.0   255.255.255.0

Does that look right??  My desktop PC is showing the below info for it’s connection info.  It’s just a bit confusing, it’s wired, but wired thru my router.  Ahhh, I’m sure it’s something fairly simple that I’m missing!!!

Desktop PC info

IPv4 Address: 192.168.0.100
IPv4 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
IPv4 Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1
IPv4 DHCP Server: 192.168.0.1
IPv4 DNS Server: 192.168.0.1

Now when I’m searching for the content source: Network Share, Windows Share, the WD TV Live wheel spins for a while and then it only finds my desktop PC.  Maybe I’ll try rebooting my WHS 2011 server.  Any other ideas??

[dar124]

So I figured it out.  My router was previously set with the IP address as 192.168.1.1 and the new one defaulted to 192.168.0.1.  I changed the IP on my router to 192.168.1.1 and after a couple reboots all seems to be well.

Thanks for the response to get me started ArMak!!!

[TonyPh12345]

Your DNS server mentioned above is invalid. That’s a netmask shown there… Not a DNS…