Paul Webster;431139 Wrote: > I knew that in Vista things were a bit different - but I had not > realised that it could act as control point/renderer. > I managed to work out why it wasn't doing it for me (VMWare involved in > my problem) - might help others. > > From WMP11 in Vista > Tools/Options/Library/Configure Sharing... > At which point I was getting an error saying: > Media sharing is currently disabled ... (and more) > I know that it is not disabled - because I am access the Vista machine > through the built-in UPnP-AV server. > The reason that this part of Vista has decided that it is disabled is > because I have VMWare on the machine and Vista has marked the VMWare > network as "Public Network". I changed it to "Private network" (although > this change did not survive a reboot) and I could then set the field > "Find media that others are sharing" > > I can see other UPnP server (e.g. TVersity) - but I cannot see my UPnP > players - i.e. via the control point function > > Where in Vista WMP11 should I see them so that I can "Play To" through > them? > (The devices can see the regular Vista UPnP-AV server and are > authorised by MAC address)
sorry, my mistake! WMP in vista is a server and renderer only, not a control point as I originally posted. In XP it is only a server. -- indifference_engine ------------------------------------------------------------------------ indifference_engine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63219 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
