Issue with Windows Media Player

[nucleardirk]

Hi there!

My config:
1 Laptop, Windows 7 64 bit
1 Netbook, Windows 7 32 bit
Router: AVM Fritz Box (has also a built in Mediaserver)
DNLA Receiver: PS3, Yamaha RXV671 Receiver, iPad with ACEPlayer

On both Windows machines, PMS is installed - the PS3, iPad and the Yamaha Receiver play my shared music without problems from laptop or netbooks shared libary.
Now I wanted to access with the Notebook the shared folder of the laptop using windows media player.
WMP shows the server, and connects, but is showing none of the files! Therefore - no streaming possible!
WMP says: "No files found in your remote libary". Same when accessing with laptops WMP to laptops own PMS.

PMS shows WMP as "Renderer"...

i tried to disable both firewalls - no success!
When trying to access the routers media player - everything is working with WMP like a charm. but not with PMS & WMO.

Any ideas? Router shouldn`t be the problem as PS3 etc. works fine with it.

[hillstrom]

hi there,

i am having similar troubles. i took a look through the forum, and this sounded like the closest to my own problem, so here goes.

i have pms, built from source files, running successfully on a centos 6.4 home linux server i just tossed together. my PS3 is
recognizing it just fine, playing music off it with ease.

but not a single one of my 3 win7 boxes can see any music to play in WMP; they seeee the pms server, but they see absolutely no content in it at all. perhaps a little more info: i have a working samba setup on the server, which the win boxes are happily working with, so the first thing i tried was to move all the media server media onto that big open samba share. this lets me play songs/albums(.mpu) fine from a windows explorer window, but WMP simply cant see any content in the pms media server still when i try it that way.

any ideas? could it be a owner/group/permissions thing? could i just be cursed? help a fellow tech weenie out, couldya?