Playing Music across home network?

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:26:13 Z

EDIT: i figured it out, but man is it WAY harder to do this with windows 7 than it was on XP. Its like windows 7 hides all the important options from the user.

Ok this is driving me crazy. If i had XP on these machines it would be easy and id have it done in less than 5min.

I have 2 computers. Both have windows 7. One has 2 hard drives. On one of those hard drives i have music in a folder. I shared the folder with "everyone". I even added the computer to the "homegroup". But when i go to the other computer i cannot get the music to come up in windows media center.

I see the section under Media Center to open a media library from another computer. My other computer is listed, but when i click on it it says next to it "no shared folders found". But i DID share it.

I then tried to get to the folder manually through the network window. I click on the other computer listed to get to the folder on it and it asks for a login and password. I set the folder to be accessible to "anyone" so why is it asking for a username and password? I put in mine but that doesnt work.

This is driving me crazy. Win XP was easy. Share folder, no password. Connect to folder. DONE.

Playing Music across home network?

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:03:15 Z

Ok so i figured out how to turn off passwords. But now i have another problem.

I can now see the shared folder with the music on it, but when i click on it it tells me "You do not have permission to access \\CRYSTAL-AMD\iTunes Music. Contact your network administrator to request access."

EDIT: You know what would be AWESOME. A new computer becomes available on the network your on, and a box auto pops up on all computers on that network that says "a computer with music/photos/video etc etc has become available on your network, would you like to connect to it" and it auto configures it all for you so the media is available automatically to everyone on that network. But that's just TOO easy.

Playing Music across home network?

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:53:35 Z

Try mapping the remote drive then you should be able to access it through Media Centre. Not good but worked for me (but not on a network drive).

Also, how about an operating system with an age rating on it: if you're old enough to own a computer then you're old enough to decide what runs on it and how it runs.