Vista to Vista networking??? are you kidding me?

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OK I've been spending the most part of today trying to network two Vista
Ultimate systems.

So far I fell like I've been tripping on acid. I hate to say it, and usually
love MS product but are you f**** kidding me?

Seriously, is this some bad joke?

Here is my setup and what I'm trying to do:

1) 2 Windows Ultimate systems (desktops) with TV Tuner (one is onboard dual
tuner, other is USB ATI 650). 1 Xbox 360 media extender.
2) Main media center has 3 drives (C (install), E: Recorded TV and F:
Multimedia files).
3) I have E and F shared, full permission.
4) Second media center has E and F mapped.

Problems:
1) Besides avi/divx files constantly crashing Media Center (kinda of
annoying but can't blame that on MS, it's as much divx's fault), I'm having
issues open some files that I transfer from my second media center to the
other (videos won't play, giving me codec error).
2) I also attempted to transfer a pile of files back and got some error
about quotas!!!! Quotas are completely turned off, there is 20GB left on the
Multimedia drive.
3) That's the part where I really feel I'm about to lose it: I click on my
mapped Recorded TV drive (on my second media center) and it opens its OWN
Recorded TV folder (local, not on the network). Worse part is that the mapped
drive shows the right about of disk space so I know it's looking at the
network location but it doesn't open it... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
4) ya got some more issues... can't seem to be able to play recorded shows
from one system to another (drag and drop file). Not sure if it's related to
some divine crapness or if it's an actual design crapture of DRM.

Anyways, I figured I would ask here, maybe some enlighted mind can attempt
to answer!
 
So far I fell like I've been tripping on acid. I hate to say it, and usually
love MS product but are you f**** kidding me?
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Gotta agree with you here. Seems Microsoft erred on the site of
security in the security-usability debate.

Some things I found that help some of the time:
- Open network center, and (re)mark your private networks as private
- Run "ipconfig /renew"
- Open Device manager, and uninstall all your network cards (they will
be reinstalled automatically)

Can't imagine a non-expert home user getting Vista to network... :(
 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx

Have a read of the above link re Vista File and Printer Sharing.

1st thing to do is make sure that the Workgroup Name of ALL the computers is
the SAME.

In Vista Network and Sharing:

Network Discovery: ON (So it can see the other computers)

Network set to Private (Public is for hotspots, airports, etc)

File Sharing: ON

And turn Media sharing ON

Public Folder Sharing: ON (Vista’s Public Folder is the same as XP’s Shared
Docs)

Password Protected: OFF (unless you want to set up identical usernames and
passwords on ALL computers in your Network)
 
Recorded TV isn't going to be playable over the network to a
different MCE computer. Also, if you physically copy them to a
different machine, DRM may prevent playback. Is this what you are
attempting to do? This is more of a Media Center issue than a
networking issue.

OK I've been spending the most part of today trying to network two Vista
Ultimate systems.

So far I fell like I've been tripping on acid. I hate to say it, and usually
love MS product but are you f**** kidding me?

Seriously, is this some bad joke?

Here is my setup and what I'm trying to do:

1) 2 Windows Ultimate systems (desktops) with TV Tuner (one is onboard dual
tuner, other is USB ATI 650). 1 Xbox 360 media extender.
2) Main media center has 3 drives (C (install), E: Recorded TV and F:
Multimedia files).
3) I have E and F shared, full permission.
4) Second media center has E and F mapped.

Problems:
1) Besides avi/divx files constantly crashing Media Center (kinda of
annoying but can't blame that on MS, it's as much divx's fault), I'm having
issues open some files that I transfer from my second media center to the
other (videos won't play, giving me codec error).
2) I also attempted to transfer a pile of files back and got some error
about quotas!!!! Quotas are completely turned off, there is 20GB left on the
Multimedia drive.
3) That's the part where I really feel I'm about to lose it: I click on my
mapped Recorded TV drive (on my second media center) and it opens its OWN
Recorded TV folder (local, not on the network). Worse part is that the mapped
drive shows the right about of disk space so I know it's looking at the
network location but it doesn't open it... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
4) ya got some more issues... can't seem to be able to play recorded shows
from one system to another (drag and drop file). Not sure if it's related to
some divine crapness or if it's an actual design crapture of DRM.

Anyways, I figured I would ask here, maybe some enlighted mind can attempt
to answer!
Click to expand...
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Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/
 
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