It’s taken me several hours of trying to figure out why I could not see my shared folders on my WD TV Live, after verifying everything is shared out. I have both a Vita Pro 64bit and Windows 7 Home 64bit computer and they could see each other, but still unable to view on WD TV LIVE. Verified everything shared properly and all device on the same workgroup, and my WD TV LIVE tested good for internet and network connectivity showing an ip address on my network.
Due to my background and working in IT, I decided to ping the ip address that showed up and it would not respond. I then checked my wireless router which showed the MAC address of my WD TV LIVE, but did not show the corresponding ip address. I turned off the security of my wifi connection and reconnected to the wifi connectin with my WD TV LIVE box and all of a sudden my network shares showed up. Turns out the WD TV LIVE wireless works, but it doesn’t work with certain security encryptions. I placed my network on WEP just so I could use my WD TV LIVE. Change your security encryption if you are having similar issues and see if it works.
I even tried several different firmware’s and spent hours checking over my sharing configuration and settings on both my computers. I hope this saves a lot of you some headaches and time. We will see how well this little box performs, but so far I am please now that I can stream my movies.
I’ve given up on streaming content to the WDTV’s from a Windows 7 shared drive because of this defect… I’ve moved my Media Drive to the WDTV itself and stream to other devices from there… this is working reliably…
I dont understand why this isnt being fixed… its causing so many problems for so many people…
haackp wrote:
Turns out the WD TV LIVE wireless works, but it doesn’t work with certain security encryptions. I placed my network on WEP just so I could use my WD TV LIVE.
Not sure why it isn’t consistant, but I am using a Netgear WND3400v2 and that is what it caqme down to. I spen hours thinking it was my windows Vista or Windows 7 shares having issues, but after trying different workgroup names and playing around with the share settings on both systems, including disabling all antivirus and firewalls, the only thing I could conclude when it did not ping is that the encryption was causing an issue.
Without encryption my WD TV LIVE connected and responded to ping, with wpa2 it would not. Using WEP it is working flawlessly. I even thought the WD TV LIVE had some sort of builtin firewall at first but it does not have that kind of ability.
I also have used two WD TV Live SMPs with two different wifi routers setup with WPA2-PSK, and everything always worked fine (streaming from Samba server, Netflix, etc.). My impression from reading postings here is that many people have similar setups, so the experience reported here does not seem typical. It would not be surprising if a particular router did not work 100% correctly and so was not compatible with the SMPs. The first wifi router I ever owned failed to forward broadcast packets from a wifi client to other wifi clients–a rather major problem, given that ARP uses broadcast frames! My advice to the OP is to try another wifi router. Unless you live in the country with no neighbors, running with WEP means your LAN is not secured.
Not sure why it isn’t consistant, but I am using a Netgear WND3400v2 and that is what it caqme down to. I spen hours thinking it was my windows Vista or Windows 7 shares having issues, but after trying different workgroup names and playing around with the share settings on both systems, including disabling all antivirus and firewalls, the only thing I could conclude when it did not ping is that the encryption was causing an issue.
Without encryption my WD TV LIVE connected and responded to ping, with wpa2 it would not. Using WEP it is working flawlessly. I even thought the WD TV LIVE had some sort of builtin firewall at first but it does not have that kind of ability.
WP2 works here as well,
if this is truely how you’ve solved the issue, I would look closer at what the router is doing
also to really know for sure you should run a packet capture between the WD and your Router
WEP can be cracked in about 30 seconds, just not a viable option. I’d return the product before going to WEP.
Turning off homegroups on every pc fixed my networking issues. Other suggestions like messing with tthe master browser or ip assigment did not. Good luck!
