Hub does not see any network shares

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Hi,

My home network has the following devices connected:

  • WD TV LIVE HUB

  • WD TV LIVE +

  • HP EX495 Server/NAS

  • Win7 Desktop

They are all on the same WORKGROUP

The problem is that my HUB cannot see any Network Share from the EX495 and my WIn7 machine. So if I select NETWORK SHARE as my source, nothing comes up. However, MEDIA SHARE works from my EX495 but not my Win7 machine.

I’ve tried everything to get my Win7 shares to work and I lost all hope so I don’t even care for that. However, I do care that the Hub cannot see my NETWORK SHARE from my EX495. I could always play everything from the MEDIA SHARE source but I want to have metadata for my files so I need the NETWORK SHARE to work.

Can someone please help? Thank you so much!

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Pull up a DOS prompt and run “nbtstat -a ” for your Win7 box and NAS, looking for a __MSBROWSE__ entry on the NAS. If missing, the WDTVLH will never find it.

My Linksys E3000 was acting as master browser. Changing its workgroup to E3000 fixed everything else.

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Ok, I did that and I see that my Win7 machine is the MSBROWSE. How can I change it? :p 

Thanks!

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Well, first things first.   Let’s test “A Theory.”  

Shut off your Windows 7 box.  

Go make dinner; enjoy a cold beer or glass of wine, or some soda.   Play a game with the kids.

In other words, wait about a half hour.

Restart your HUB from power-off.

Does your HUB now see the NAS?    

If SO, then there’s a problem on the Win7 box.   If NOT, then there’s a problem somewhere else.

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As I posted somewhere else, after trying almost everything I’ve read on this forum and spending so many hours, days, sweat and tears; I finally have my network shares working.

Thank you Tony for the advice. I did so much that I don’t have a good solution to share with everyone but I believe it was a combination of things like renaming the WORKGROUP on the HUB to WORKGROUP, restarting the HUB, PC and MediaServer + turning Media Library OFF and ON again.