So, after some growing pains, have my network drive working and am able to copy/paste from my windows 8 laptop into the wd media center sitting next to my tv. All is good.
But…if I go to my laptop and select a movie sitting on my hard drive, I rt clk on the movie and select playto, the movie starts to play, stops , the message " unexpected device error occurred"…so I have pretty much given up on this…so I am open to suggestions