WDTV Live media player stopped working

Salty22 · 27 May 2017 at 18:51

Ive just had my house rewired, re installed my network setup and changed from a BT home hub 4 to a home hub 6 (smart hub), updated windows 10 install on pc and got my TV AV setup again.
But now my WDTV Live media player refuses to find my network share on my PC.

My first thought was theres a problem with the network but absolutely everything else works fine, second idea was maybe the smart hub needs a setting changed or something so i setup my old home hub 4 again and it still didnt work.
Ive got a second WDTV live in my bedroom running on wireless not ethernet, this has stopped working now too so the only thing i can think of is some kinda update to windows 10 has stopped my media sharing.
Anyone got any ideas i can try?

EssexBoy · 27 May 2017 at 19:21

Most probably permissions on windows share side.Does the online stuff on the wdtv work like youtube etc if so definitely share issue client side.

Salty22 · 27 May 2017 at 19:57

Yeah everything else works fine, if i go onto Media Server on the WD it shows my PC, but theres nothing in those folders because my Medias all on my other hard drives.
I normally use the Network share option on the WD and it shows the folders ive shared on my pc but now it wont even access the people through that setting.
Any ideas for what settings on my pc could have changed? ive spent so long googling and trying different things to get it going and it still doesn't work

Raggs · 31 May 2017 at 12:30

try sharing the folders with everyone in the advanced settings then set permissions , it's worked for me in the past

Salty22 · 31 May 2017 at 17:20

Think thats all correctly set. For some reason i keep thinking it might be something to do with the homegroup, theres no way to enter a password on my WDTV and windows insists i set one now

Salty22 · 31 May 2017 at 19:16

Are there any ports could possible be blocking it?

Spudgun · 1 Jun 2017 at 17:38

I'd do a factory reset on the wdtv live and set it up again from scratch. Mine has done this, on average, once a year for the past 3 years.

Factory reset always gets it working again though

Salty22 · 1 Jun 2017 at 22:08

Tried it and still no better

its so annoying lol

Spudgun · 1 Jun 2017 at 22:53

Certainly not a windows 10 issue as I share with my wdtv fine. Just a matter of right clicking on a folder that you want to share and identifying that I want to share it with the WDTV user that is on my windows 10 machine. Then just putting the password for the wdtv user in on the device itself.

Salty22 · 2 Jun 2017 at 18:03

Found out what the problem is
https://social.technet.microsoft.co...0-creators-edition?forum=win10itpronetworking

Spudgun · 3 Jun 2017 at 10:56

Thanks for posting that, I will hold off on any updates before this is confirmed as working again

Salty22 · 3 Jun 2017 at 17:36

Ive got it working for now with a free programme called Serviio