On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:00:00 -0700, FFSAT
<FFSAT[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
[Quoted Text] >I am having trouble sharing some of my files with Media sahring. I have 1
>computer that is running Windows XP Pro with Windows Media Player 11, 1
>computer running Windows Vista with Windows Media Player 11 and my
>Playstation 3. I have my music folder setup for media sharing through Windows
>Media player 11 on the computer with Windows Vista. I also have some music on
>my computer with Windows XP Pro and I have that setup to share as well. The
>problem I am having is that my computer with Windows XP does not bring up my
>music that is being shared from Windows Vista but I can see all my music that
>is being shared from Windows XP on my Windows Vista. My Playstation can see
Exactly right : XP doesn't have some of the features that enable
browsing shared "network" libraries but Vista does :
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq/sharing.mspx#q20:1
>all and play all but I can not play my music from Vista to XP. Another thing
>is I can see my computer with Windows Vista on the device list on my XP but I
>can not see my XP comuter on my Vista. Do I have something setup wrong..
You could quite reasonably use windows file sharing, right click on
your music folders and choose Share.... on Vista
Then in XP you should be able to add those as monitored folders
(assuming no username/password needed) so those would need to be
Public shared folders, which are a special category.
There's additional information about this which *may* help, at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq/sharing.mspx#q20_17
HTH
Cheers - Neil
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