windows media connect and 360 problem

Revelator · 6 Feb 2006 at 22:38

I have a Netopia 3347 router, I can connect my xbox 360 to live no problems and my laptop has no problems connecting to the internet via wireless router. I am running windows xp home edition sp2. I've tried www.xbox.com/pcsetup to get my laptop to connect to the xbox using windows medai connect but no joy, when it gets to authorizing xbox page it stops. I've downloaded windows media connect 2 but still the laptop is not finding the xbox. I'd say I'm doing something stupid. Can anyone help as I want to stream media from my laptop to my 42" HD plasma. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong would be welcome. I've tried xbox 360 support tips and windows support but nothing seems to be working.

TheMagicPirate · 6 Feb 2006 at 22:53

I actually came on to ask this exact question.

Can you still stream music from your comp thro the router?

(I haven't tried yet to be honest)

Revelator · 6 Feb 2006 at 22:58

No I can't because the laptop will not recognise the xbox 360 at all, Windows media connect can't find anything

Davey_Pitch · 6 Feb 2006 at 23:19

I had the same problem. As I remember, you need to start the Universal Plug and Play Device Host service (which may need to be added through Start->Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs->Add/Remove Windows Components->Networking Services->Tick UPnP User Interface), and the SSDP Discovery Service service. Once these are enabled from startup in the Services menu, Media Conect should work fine.

NokkonWud · 6 Feb 2006 at 23:20

Davey's right. I couldn't for the life of me remember what the service to start was.

Firestar_3x · 6 Feb 2006 at 23:23

I don't know if its the same but i had an issue connecting my 360 to an MCE machine, looked like the Media connect setup had failed half way through, if you load media connect (Think you right click on the icon by the clock) set the 360 to allow.

Revelator · 6 Feb 2006 at 23:51

I tried that there now Davey and windows media connect still can't find anything............ This thing has me well and truely beaten, either the xbox or the laptop is ging to go through the window. Thanks for the help, any other suggestions would be welcome.

NokkonWud · 6 Feb 2006 at 23:55

Throw the laptop, Xbox360's are harder to find in the shops.

Thesnipergecko · 6 Feb 2006 at 23:57

Ignore me, i cant read.

Paul ...

Revelator · 7 Feb 2006 at 00:04

Finding an xbox is easier than trying to connect it through windows media connect......Arrrrggggggghhhhhh

cokecan · 7 Feb 2006 at 00:08

any firewall software (norton inparticular) blocking your laptop from seeing anythin??

Revelator · 7 Feb 2006 at 00:10

I disabled the firewall, I had seen that was causing some people problems so stopped it before trying anything.

cokecan · 7 Feb 2006 at 00:32

is there anythin on windows update maybe to download to do with media connect??? an update or somethin

Davey_Pitch · 7 Feb 2006 at 00:48

Revelator said:
I tried that there now Davey and windows media connect still can't find anything............ This thing has me well and truely beaten, either the xbox or the laptop is ging to go through the window. Thanks for the help, any other suggestions would be welcome.

Try loading Windows Media Connect, it'll fail if things aren't configured correctly. If that's the case, look in your event viewer under the System heading, and you'll probably have errors relating to Service Control Manager. If so, copy the text and paste it here for me to look at.

If Windows Media Connect works fine, then you should be able to use it to find your 360, and allow it access to your laptop.

PiKe · 7 Feb 2006 at 14:57

I enabled upnp last night, didnt make one bit of difference, the PC can see the 360 (as its always been able to) yet the 360 won't see the PC running Windows Connect.

Davey_Pitch · 7 Feb 2006 at 15:44

PiKe said:
I enabled upnp last night, didnt make one bit of difference, the PC can see the 360 (as its always been able to) yet the 360 won't see the PC running Windows Connect.

This may be a silly question, but in Windows Media Connect did you set it to allow access for the 360?

PiKe · 7 Feb 2006 at 15:45

When it finds it it's set to allow automatically

Even tried ticking auto allow everything, but alas nothing.

Can't see how upnp is required, generally it's only used for opening ports, the internal network isn't influenced by NAT.

Davey_Pitch · 7 Feb 2006 at 15:51

Afraid I'm out of ideas then. Doing what I suggested in my first post worked fine for me, so should in theory work for most other people too :/

PiKe · 7 Feb 2006 at 15:53

Just noticed it's refusing to start now..

Service 'WMConnectCDS' failed to start correctly, due to 'CreateMediaDevices' returning error '0x80004005'.

da_mic_1530 · 7 Feb 2006 at 15:58

ive had every single one of those problems and more, i gave up