Help with my Network problem please?

SexyGreyFox · 3 Dec 2014 at 20:18

I've got quite a few devices in my house and basically they can all see each other and I can navigate to any drive/folder I want on any device I want as long as I've shared them.
This means I have several devices that can see all my shared folders on my PC.
I'm trying a mates new Panasonic DMRHWT130 PVR and it has networking capabilities but even though it sees my PC I can't navigate into any shared folders, I just see this and all those directories are empty -

Any ideas why this device isn't seeing my PC like all my other devices?

bledd · 3 Dec 2014 at 21:52

Try adding 'Everyone' user and give it Read access.

Depends how the share is set up tbh.

wesley · 4 Dec 2014 at 00:22

off topic, if you record something from TV to this PVR, can you copy a program to USB hard drive so i can watch it at work with VLC player?

SexyGreyFox · 4 Dec 2014 at 09:10

bledd. said:
Try adding 'Everyone' user and give it Read access.

Depends how the share is set up tbh.

This is already done, like I said, I have at least 4 other devices that see everything on my PC

wesley said:
off topic, if you record something from TV to this PVR, can you copy a program to USB hard drive so i can watch it at work with VLC player?

I haven't tried it but I believe you can.
You can setup a USB drive and put your recordings on it but I don't know the format yet.
I have another Satellite receiver (VU+ Solo2) that records in TS format.

bledd · 4 Dec 2014 at 09:14

Check the NTFS permissions are set with 'Everyone' to Read it too.

Check for an update to the TV software

SexyGreyFox · 4 Dec 2014 at 09:43

The software is up to date

APM · 4 Dec 2014 at 09:55

Maybe you need to create a new path and folder for the DVR on the PC?

Does the PC see the DVR?

bledd · 4 Dec 2014 at 13:32

Dangerous setting more than read.

SexyGreyFox · 4 Dec 2014 at 22:04

APM said:
Does the PC see the DVR?

It does but unlike all the other drives it does not open.
It is the DMR

I'll go and check all the settings on it.

Dangerous Dave · 4 Dec 2014 at 22:13

Does the PVR support reading from shares rather than just DLNA off a network ? as the folders look like the default DLNA ones for windows.

SexyGreyFox · 4 Dec 2014 at 22:16

Dangerous Dave said:
Does the PVR support reading from shares rather than just DLNA off a network ? as the folders look like the default DLNA ones for windows.

It reads every folder on my NAS and VU+ Solo2 that I have shared but not my PC!

APM · 4 Dec 2014 at 22:22

try and hook the dvr and the pc up together directly,maybe the pc will find all the drivers it needs,then move the dvr to it's network location and it could work?

Is there a usb on the dvr?

Dangerous Dave · 4 Dec 2014 at 22:23

Dimple said:
It reads every folder on my NAS and VU+ Solo2 that I have shared but not my PC!

Try disabling DLNA on your PC, the PVR may be giving it priority over any shares.

Dangerous Dave · 4 Dec 2014 at 22:34

Looking at your screen shot of your network the devices under Media Devices will be DLNA devices are you sure the PVR is not just accessing the DLNA service on the NAS/VU+ Solo2 ?

I have had a quick scan of the manual for the PVR and it doesn't mention being able to access network shares only DLNA servers.

SexyGreyFox · 4 Dec 2014 at 22:48

Dangerous Dave said:
I have had a quick scan of the manual for the PVR and it doesn't mention being able to access network shares only DLNA servers.

Is this the droid you are looking for?

Dangerous Dave · 4 Dec 2014 at 22:53

Going by the DLNA Client in the title of the option you are in and looking at the names of the shares it's listing they are matching the DLNA servers rather than network shares from your network devices screenshot, it looks like the PVR only supports DLNA shares.

APM · 4 Dec 2014 at 22:58

is there a Panasonic DNLA software that needs to be installed on the PC then?

I have some Samsung devices here and Samsung do something called Allshare or Samsung Link now that needs to be installed to the server PC before it all gels

Dangerous Dave · 4 Dec 2014 at 23:03

APM said:
is there a Panasonic DNLA software that needs to be installed on the PC then?

I have some Samsung devices here and Samsung do something called Allshare or Samsung Link now that needs to be installed to the server PC before it all gels

Windows Media Player supports DLNA, if you point it towards all your media files it will share them out to any DLNA compatible devices and transcode any formats they do not support assuming the correct codecs are on the PC.

You can get other DLNA server software for Windows, never really used DLNA for media sharing so couldn't tell you what DLNA server software is any good.

Samsung devices will more than likely support DLNA.

SexyGreyFox · 5 Dec 2014 at 00:05

Thanks for all your inputs.

SexyGreyFox · 6 Dec 2014 at 14:24

If I drag a folder of my movies into Windows Media Player I can see it on the PVR.
A bit poor but it works.