Please Help with 360 and Media sharing with PC

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ok .. so have Vista 64 and 360 connected via a Linksys router (hard wired)

fine ....

turn on the 360 and the PC "sees" the 360 fine

I can run Media centre on both, and the 360 can access everything on PC fine.

but WMP11 .. no go ... if I go into WMP11 settings -it can see the 360 .. I give the 360 the permission to access etc ...

then on 360 - go to videos, pc, and it can't find any pc on the network :(

I've enabled UPNP, I've opened up the recommended ports by Microsoft, and I've even DMZ'd the 360 .. to no avail, and also disabled Kaspersky.

any ideas please ?

I can't work out how Windows Media Centre works and can talk to the PC - but nothing else can ?

thanks, Mark.
 
Forwarding ports, DMZ and uPnP won't do any good - they don't change the network connections, just the connection to the internet.
Is there a firewall on the PC? Tried disabling it?
 
hi there.

There is a firewall Kaspersky on the pc - have tried "pausing" its protection AND shutting it down.

I can't understand why media centre would work ?

thanks for reply
 
What about the Windows firewall? Tried specifically opening the ports WMP needs in the Kaspersky firewall?
Is there any option to point WMP or the xbox at the opposite machine by its IP address?
 
windows firewall is disabled

re last point - not quite sure what you mean - but I don't think so. Its annoying that I can "see" the 360 on my PC ... and can select it to be shared wit

I think Vista 64 is the problem !
 
What I mean is whether there's an option on either the 360 or the PC to enter the other machine's IP address, and it'll go off and see what's there - if it's anything like windows file sharing, the lists of "available shares" are notoriously unreliable.
 
i had this sort of problem with WMP11 for ages, the XBOX couldn't see the PC so i rolled back to WMP10 then reinstalled WMP11 and it all worked fine the XBOX imediatley found the PC and was streaming video, music etc
 
had similar porb on the xbox go go videos and change location using the left button i think and ot should bring up your pc
 
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