hi saltgrass i think i have it fixed, maybe. I imported rules from another machine and the problem seems to be fixed. I will post if that is the case or not. thanks for you efforts and interest.
hi Saltgrass yes I have tried the trouble shooter and like most of the microsoft troubleshooters they are pretty useless in my opinion. no where in the firewall have i got any settings for network discovery, that may be the issue. here is a snip of the inbound rules the outbound is empty. Is...
thanks for responding, i use windows default firewall, i am set up as private rather than public network on my home network [?] i set the advanced sharing settings but they dont stick. even when i had a homegroup set. the setting will only 'stick' when the firewall is switched off which is not...
Hi folks this is an annoying puzzle for me. I have 64bit windows home premium and the firewall blocks local network discovery and options to enable file sharing and media streaming. I am using a home network, when i go to allow a program through there is no option for file and printer service...
Thank you for the extensive replies, I have installed on new drive and only done basic updates and it all works well for a while. Toshiba unfortunately doesnt support it anymore so are not interested. The firmware is out of date but there are no further ones to download. So that is a possible...
My toshiba A200 laptop was upgraded from vista HP to ultimate with a clean install on new 500gb hard drive and it has worked pretty flawlessly for the past few years from the RC version. But in the past few months it has started crashing, rebooting and rebooting and rebooting, now freezing when...
I am pulling my hair out trying to get a few things sorted out with my home setup. I have media pc running windows 7 ultimate. But trying to stream AVI files over Cat6 cable to my local network to my media player [zensonic/ziova z500] just doesnt work, I can see the folders but not the...
I have tried this question several ways still to no avail. So will try again. I have a w7 pc on wired local network, also VMWARE xp mode on w7 machine and vista laptop and network media player. I need to be able to share the media files on the w7 machine to the local network so that the media...
I have an annoying situation. I have a Zensonics Z500 media player which only easily finds files on the local network when connected to an xp machine. I now have windows 7 ultimate so the best i can do is get it to find the PC and files but the contents are not visible, [unless they are mpegs or...
Hi I have managed to get my Zensonics z500 media player to show me the media folders on my windows 7 machine, in the video library, but the files have no contents. If the original file on the PC had an AVI movie that file showing on the z500 is empty. It originally worked fine in the old XP pc...
good hi its been a long time and i think all i did was download and install vuescan. it may have been from a torrent site, i cant remember i may still have it some where but i have re formatted a few times so it may be lost , let me know if you want a copy i may have it no guarantees.
have you tried this? [XBOX] HOW-TO fix Windows Vista and Windows 7 SMB Shares for XBMC - XBMC Community Forum have a look at this thread and see if it is of any use to you and let me know as i still want to use my z500