media server

First off I like to say I like this forum so Im posting here.:D I am having a problem with my network places being over crowd on winows 7, Vista, an XP machines. I woul like to get ri of all the broken an duplicate folders. Heres the story, I have a media server in one room. Over the years...

In a latest video tutorial effort, I will be attempting to show how to properly install, configure, and maintain Microsoft Windows Home Server. The latest video has been finished, while the setup and configuration portion is currently in development. I hope to offer transcripts of these guides...

I've failed to find the answer on exisitng threads but if I have missed it, apologies. I am trying to link mjy laptop (W7) with the new PC attached to the TV acting as a media server (W7) with two Pure Sensia iintenet radios and wife's laptop running XP. I have a wireless internet running...

I'm running Win7 on my laptop (Pavilion), wireless; have access to internet & my home server. My desktop (Acer) is running Vista; network printer is connected to desktop; the desktop machine can access the internet, and my laptop, and my home server. From my laptop I can ping my desktop by...

The virtual router function in W7 is fantastic and I am running a small PAN now consisting of a media server with a WiFi card and connection to internet, and two laptops connected using WiFi to the server. My question is about speed and radio type. The server has a Ralink RT2860 chip which...

I have identified a major security issue with sharing when sharing to a PS3. Setup: I have no homegroup set up. I am using a work network. I am allowing my libraries to be shared to my PS3. In order to share music, videos, and pictures to my PS3, I must simply add them to a library and they...

Hello, when I upgrade my computers to Windows 7 at the beggining every was good but after I install yesterday Kaspersky internet security 2010 now when I try to access some computers in my network I receive an error message : "Windows cannot access Link Removed , check the spelling of the name...

Situation: I have been running windows 7 Beta RC build 7100 for half a year now with only one small problem, the network stopped working. Only way to fix it was to reboot and it worked perfectly again. Might have been the new Kaspersky that caused that. It would not happen for days and then a...

My setup is Linksys WRT610N router, CNET RAlink CWP-905 wireless card New clean install of windows 7 will not accept the correct valid security key when entered to connect to the network. It does not even seem to go away and check but immediatley says it is invalid. I am trying to connect to...

Good Morning, I hope you'll forgive a bit of a (probably) newbie question. I have avoided working with Vista since it's release due to the problems it had when it first came out, and general dislike of it etc. I recently decided to try windows 7 however, and I know it's got a LOT of...

I have an HP MediaVault MV2120. It is a home file storage/server running a Linux OS. It also has a media server that runs in the background. I had zero problems with seeing it while running XP. Now, with Win7, I can only get to it by manually entering in the network address. I can not see or...

I have a basic LAN with 4 computers running Windows 7 RC 7100... I have joined all the computers to the Home Group, but most of the time when switching on the computers, some do not appear on the scene, wether in Home Group, or My Network... it is only until you log into them that they appear...

It's sort of complicated, when I was using XP I would set my wifi connection to share to my ethernet connection which is connected to my PS3 (not a word. :mad:), Now in windows 7, on the properties of the wifi connection, there's no sharing tab, which means I can't get online with my PS3 (it's...