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Vista Media Sharing Woes

  • 28-08-2007 7:01pm
    #1
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I have two PCs,
    One running Vista Home Premium, the other running XP Home SP2
    Both are running WMP11.
    All the music is stored on the Vista PC, and I would like to share this with the XP PC.
    When I activate sharing on both WMP libraries, I see media from XP on Vista, but I dont see media from Vista on XP.

    I think after much googling that XP is conveniently "not compatible" with media sharing but didn't find any concrete answers.

    Is there any solution to this problem?

    Any little sourceforge project that acts an XP client or something?


    Or alternatively can anybody recommend any alternative media sharing software.. well not so much sharing but more server-client based... The XP PC contains no media.



    thanks


Comments

  • #2
    mathias
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭mathias


    Well , you could just share the folder that the media is in , right click on the folder , click sharing ... and follow the instructions.

    Or if you want to stream from one to the other , try VLC , better than any flavour of Windows media player by far ...

    http://www.videolan.org/vlc/


  • #3
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Yea i got that done in the end. M$ have disabled network sharing of the Music folder... solved by dragging to the Public folder :p


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