WDTV Live doesn't see shared drives

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My WDTV is connected wirelessly to my Cisco/Linksys Router. I am running a home domain with Windows 2008 R2 Server and multiple desktop/laptop clients.

The litle orange arrow just spins and spins but it never finds any shared drives. I give the everyone group full control and have tried sharing the clients as well. I have changed the workgroup name to the domain name and also left it at workgroup.

Any idea what might be going on? I have configured the WDTV Live with a static ip like all of my other network nodes. I have tried pointing the DNS at both the server and internet. All of the apps work fine, I just can’t see any network shares.

Firmware is the latest.

Thanks

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Hello,

from any of the computers, are you able to see the media player? or the share folder that you have?

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I can see the media player from a workstation. I can also see my network share from any workstation.

Thanks

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I checked a few more pc(s).

I can see the media player all of my pc(s) whether client or server, wired or wireless…

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Now noticing that the media player is seeing my router and printer but not the shared drive yet.

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What is wrong with you? Why are you hijacking my thread?

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Moved one of my boxes into a workgroup…worked fine. Not willing to turn my domain into a workgroup for this to happen.

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Might just create a vm in a workgroup on my domain controller. That way I don’t have to destroy my domain.

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Used Hyper-V VM in it’s own workgroup for media center shared drive. This worked very well. Wasn’t willing to tear down a domain for this.