Enable Network Shares on WD TV Live & Windows 7 Ultimate x64
After days of research and trial / error I was able to get my WD TV Live HD Media Player to see my network shares on Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Sorry about the pops in the audio. My wireless mic was about dead. I’ll rerecord the audio later. ANONYMOUS LOGIN TO ON On the WD TV Live go into Network Settings and verify Auto login to network share – On. Clear the login information once you’ve done that then hank the power, wait 10 seconds and plug it back in. If this does not resolve the log in screen issue proceed to the registry fix below. The fix works on Vista as well. REGISTRY FIX TO ADD ANONYMOUS TO EVERYONE GROUP 1. Navigate to the following in the registry editor. MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\ 2. On the right side, double-click on ‘everyoneincludesanonymous’ and change the ‘Value data’ from ’0′ to ’1′ 3. Double-click on ‘NoLmHash’ and change the ‘Value data’ from ’1′ to ’0′ 4. Navigate to the following in the registry editor: MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer \Parameters 5. Double-click on ‘restrictnullsessaccess’ and change the ‘Value data’ from ’1′ to ’0′ SCREEN SHOT FOR PERMISSIONS knoxcompguy.com
Nach Tagen des Forschungs- und Testversion / Fehler ich konnte mein WD TV Live HD Media Player zu sehen, mein Netzwerk Aktien auf Windows 7 Ultimate X 64. Traurig über die Pops in der Audio. Mein drahtlose Mikrofon war Toten. Ich werde später die Audio aufzeichnen. Anonyme Anmeldung auf ON auf die WD TV Live in Netzwerk-Einstellungen gehen und überprüfen Sie Auto-Login auf Netzwerkfreigabe - auf. Deaktivieren Sie die Login-Informationen, sobald Sie das getan haben, und Hank macht, warten Sie 10 Sekunden und schließen Sie es wieder an. Falls dadurch nicht, die Login-Bildschirm behoben wird können Sie die Registerverlegenheit unten. Das Update funktioniert auch unter Vista. REGISTERVERLEGENHEIT AUF HINZUFÜGEN ANONYM JEDER GRUPPE 1. Navigieren Sie im Registrierungs-Editor den folgenden. MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControlLsa 2. Doppelklicken auf der rechten Seite Sie auf 'Everyoneincludesanonymous' und ändern die Wertdaten von '0' To '1' 3. Doppelklicken Sie auf "NoLmHash" und ändern Sie die 'Wertdaten' von '1' in '0' 4. Navigieren Sie zum folgenden im Registrierungs-Editor: MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesLanManServer Parameters 5. Doppelklicken Sie auf 'Restrictnullsessaccess und ändern die 'Wertdaten' von '1' bis ' 0' SCREEN SHOT für Berechtigungen knoxcompguy.com. ares, Enable, Live, Network, Shares, Ultimate, Windows, windows 7, windows 7 ultimate, www.youtube.com,
June 26th, 2010 09:09
Awesome tut. Working well here. Thanks man!
June 26th, 2010 09:58
@dirtyvu I understand your concern. I use Media Center to push content to several other electronics including an X360. You can enable the media server to do that if you run into issues with these settings.
June 26th, 2010 10:18
Thanks for this. I spent a couple days trying to get the share to work and then I followed this video along with the instructions for the regedit and now it works like a charm. Thanks again!
June 26th, 2010 11:07
this post looks fabulous. will try it out ASAP. but i have some questions. i also have a 360 as well as other Windows 7 machines. so i’m wondering how the aspects such as windows media extender (windows media center) and homegroups are affected by your changes. because homegroups has made sharing super easy. all my windows 7 machines see each other very easily. also, i love my windows media center and how it works with my 360. so can you provide some advice? vunguyensaba@yahoo.com
June 26th, 2010 11:14
@Joostered Thanks for the thumbs. I still enjoy hearing about success stories. Been using my WD for about 6 months now. I have 3 of them and have canceled my cable. I’m going to do another video for PlayOn Media Server here in a few days. Hopefully that will help people get away from the bullshit prices the cable companies are demanding for what should be a very low priced service.
June 26th, 2010 11:55
Top notch tutorial, worked like a charm. Thumbs up!
June 26th, 2010 12:04
Hey thanks so much for the video and and the regedit fix. I do use x64 but it still won’t work. I can watch youtube and flickr so I know it’s connected.
I have it connected wireless using DWA-140 V1.30 (supported wireless adapter).
Symptom: When I go into video -> network shares and click enter NOTHING happends I tried every possible button but no reaction. As I said Youtube reacts just fine.
I also tried setting it up wired and it had the same problem!
June 26th, 2010 12:32
figured out the problem. If play’s on Wi-Fi (mine is 802.11n, faster than a wired connection) didn’t work. Only on wired connection…. My wired is 100mb/s. The 802.11n is 144mb/s. Only on wired worked…. But the great is that worked!
June 26th, 2010 12:44
hey computer guy, unfortunatllely thyed to play a 1080p movie with 5.1 audio, didn’t work…. The movie just have so many slow parts, without audio and the video like 1 scene per second. I also have another movie center (tvix player) and works greats (this file i was trying to plays is 6gb, i played files at 13gb on tvix, on the same network great). Do you have some toughts about it? Thanks
June 26th, 2010 12:52
hey computer guy. Great tutorial. After little time and tests, worked fine!! Congratulations and thaks for helping us. Regards
June 26th, 2010 13:43
Thanks for the help !!! It took the video and a bit of reading from previous coments (regedit) and I finally got it to work . Thank you so much !
June 26th, 2010 14:11
@camboy1132 cont2… once I have some more information regarding your scenario I can better assist but to start with, I’d check your NIC driver to be sure it’s up-to-date, video driver (yes video) and your router firmware to make sure it’s up-to-date. Once you’ve done that you can start eliminating hardware one at a time. After that you can measure latency from and to the WD / computer.
First thing though, I’d try another WD just in case.
Let me know the outcome.
June 26th, 2010 14:12
@camboy1132 cont… what hardware do you use other than the WD? Have you tried another WD unit? Are you using Windows 7 or another operating system? The codec on the WD TV Live can play the following formats with no problem. I have tested each numerous times.
Formats include: ISO, IMG, MKV, AVI, MPG, VOB, MP4, MP3, WAV, M2K. Again, no problems with video or audio playback. I also checked the WD forums and my contact at WD and they have had no reports of format incompatibility or codec.
June 26th, 2010 14:21
@camboy1132 First, I have to say you probably have a piece of bad hardware. The WD unit, router, NIC, cable, etc. If you can watch video flawlessly like all of us here can and cannot on the WD that tells me there is definitely an issue with streaming or hardware, not with the way the WD is constructed or with codec on the device.
Now, to assist you I need to know a few things. What type of file or files are you trying to play? How were they ripped or downloaded?
June 26th, 2010 15:04
I got lots of Movie Play Back issues ,movies will not play correctly with errors. HD movies wont play smoothly & spuders. as we can clearly see its codec issue.what we need to do is to change alter the codec pack.some how alter the Computer version and make it compatible with the play firmware. Community Codec pack or Klite codec pack as we can see the computer dose not have no issues when playing form pc with these codec packs.WD TV also live needs to use different firmware codec on player .
June 26th, 2010 15:48
@mmesa005 you are correct. WD TV Live passes DTS audio over HDMI so there is no need to convert. That is one of the very large differences between the WD TV & adding the word Live.
June 26th, 2010 15:59
@gbak02 Thanks.
June 26th, 2010 16:18
@dieushade Love hearing about your success. Glad I could assist.
June 26th, 2010 16:47
My new hero! Thanks alot! I was working on it for over 5 hours when I found your video… works perfectly now! Many many thanks for sharing your hard work
June 26th, 2010 17:04
I have a Gen 1 WD TV HD and I use a Toslink connection to my AV Receiver to decode DTS audio. The Gen 2 / Live can pass DTS Audio via HDMI.
June 26th, 2010 17:06
thanx bro! awesome guide! good job!
June 26th, 2010 17:22
@roadcoach I don’t play with Torrents. Torrents = trouble – Try using Limewire if you need to use torrents. It’s lighter weight than Vuze.
June 26th, 2010 18:10
Had another problem recently. If running Vuze (bittorrent client) WDTV Live stopped working. Had to close Vuze and then go into hibernate mode and then out. Then WDTV Live worked again.
June 26th, 2010 18:24
files and tell me that an error occurred in trying to apply the security policy to each file.
June 26th, 2010 19:09
@thecomputerguyonline: Finally got this figured out. It appears that using the same computer name and user name on Vista 64 previously, then upgrading (fresh install, copied all pertinent files to external drives beforehand) to Windows 7 (with the same computer/user name) confused matters with Win 7. Basically it would not allow me to take ownership of files and folders within the folder I was trying to change as per the video. It would constantly deny access to individual (continued)
October 11th, 2010 13:50
Awesome. This actually works like a dream. Load up the 720p version on You Tube in full screen mode and just follow the instructions. Tried loads of other stuff including registry hacks. Nothing worked but this worked like a charm. Thanks for bothering to upload it all – you’re a gent
October 28th, 2010 14:42
I have been watching the YOUTUBE video on how to enable network shares with WDTV Live and Windows 7.
My question is: is there any where on the internet that has the dialogue available to print out on a printer so that I can read the instructions while inputting the desired info on the computer?
best, Aaron