XBox 360 cannot see shared folders via Media Center

[nsafreak]

Well now that I finally have a PC running Windows Vista Home Premium I thought I'd try using the 360 as a media extender. It works fine for the most part except for one problem it is not seeing the shared folders on my Windows 2000 Server where I keep all of my media. I also have the share folders mapped as a drive on the Media Center PC but it doesn't give me the option to watch those folders in my library. The really weird thing is if I bring up the same screen on the PC itself it sees the shared folders just fine. Any ideas as to what could be causing the extender to not see the shared folders but the media center PC sees them fine?

Network setup is pretty basic, 1 client PC and 2 servers along with a 360 hooked into a Linksys WRT54G v2 router. Router is setup for DHCP with the Windows 2000 server handling DNS duties.

 

[Muadib]

Have you tried this???

 

[nsafreak]

Yep I've done that already. I should note that outside of media center I can see the shared folders across the network on the 360.

 

[Muadib]

Have you tried loading Tversity on the 2k server? I know it works with 2k, but I'm not sure about server.

 

[nsafreak]

Haven't tried that, but tbh I really don't want to use TVversity. I want to use the Windows Media Center extender functionality that the 360 provides. I can already browse files on the network but Windows Media Center has a much nicer looking interface.

 

[Muadib]

I agree with you on the looks of WMC, however I think your only other option will be to get rid of 2k server.

 

[nsafreak]

Ok, I guess I could move the media back to my media center PC, but still that doesn't make much sense. Why is it when I open up Windows Media Center on the media center PC itself I can go through the same interface that the 360 interacts with and see the shared folders but I cannot on the 360? Something is out of whack and should be fixable.

 

[VinylxScratches]

I believe the Xbox only works with modern OS (XP/Vista) only. You can't mount a network drive to XP/Vista from Windows 2000 and get that to come up on the Xbox.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: nsafreak
Ok, I guess I could move the media back to my media center PC, but still that doesn't make much sense. Why is it when I open up Windows Media Center on the media center PC itself I can go through the same interface that the 360 interacts with and see the shared folders but I cannot on the 360? Something is out of whack and should be fixable.

Can you play the files on the 2k server through WMC? If so, then I would guess that it's probably a permissions issue.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: VinylxScratches
I believe the Xbox only works with modern OS (XP/Vista) only. You can't mount a network drive to XP/Vista from Windows 2000 and get that to come up on the Xbox.

Do you have a link that backs this up?

 

[abaez]

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/pcsetup/alldownloads.htm

To connect the Xbox 360 console to this computer, you must be running Windows XP Service Pack 2, Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, or Windows Vista.

 

[nsafreak]

Originally posted by: abaez
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/pcsetup/alldownloads.htm

To connect the Xbox 360 console to this computer, you must be running Windows XP Service Pack 2, Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, or Windows Vista.

I think that only applies if you're trying to connect it via the media center interface. I'm connecting the XBox to a PC running Windows Vista Home Premium running Media Center which can see the shared folders on the Windows 2000 Server.

 

[Muadib]

Read, and try this. Look for the post by Blue Aadvark.

 

[nsafreak]

Found the answer just before you posted that. I enabled the guest account on the 2K server and gave it read access to the media directories I wanted it to see. Works like a charm now.

 

[Muadib]

Glad it worked out.