Enable Network Shares on WD TV Live & Windows 7 Ultimate x64

After days of research and trial / error I was able to get my WD TV Live HD Media Player to see my network shares on Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

Sorry about the pops in the audio. My wireless mic was about dead. I'll rerecord the audio later.

ANONYMOUS LOGIN TO ON
On the WD TV Live go into Network Settings and verify Auto login to network share - On. Clear the login information once you've done that then hank the power, wait 10 seconds and plug it back in. If this does not resolve the log in screen issue proceed to the registry fix below. The fix works on Vista as well.

REGISTRY FIX TO ADD ANONYMOUS TO EVERYONE GROUP
1. Navigate to the following in the registry editor. MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\
2. On the right side, double-click on 'everyoneincludesanonymous' and change the 'Value data' from '0' to '1'
3. Double-click on 'NoLmHash' and change the 'Value data' from '1' to '0'
4. Navigate to the following in the registry editor: MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer
\Parameters
5. Double-click on 'restrictnullsessaccess' and change the 'Value data' from '1' to '0'

SCREEN SHOT FOR PERMISSIONS
http://knoxcompguy.com/inheritablepermissions.JPG

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• WD
• TV
• Live
• Windows
• Vista
• Networking
• Homegroup
• 64-bit
• x64

[jkherberger]

After I add permissions I click OK and a message tells me "Error applying security" "Access is denied". Any ideas?

[thecomputerguyonline]

@jkherberger That's a sure sign that you're not running as an administrator. Or, you do not have ownership of that folder.

[thecomputerguyonline]

@jkherberger You're not running as an administrator. Make sure you have full administrator rights before you start changing permissions.

[ceddy1031]

All my movies are in my D: Drive. I don't see WD TV Live can see my D drive even though it is already shared. Is there a way I can do that?

[thecomputerguyonline]

@ceddy1031 Even though it's not recommended to share a drive on the root level, you can still do it. Just follow the same method I outline in my video when I set up the Tutorial shared folder and it will be available on the WD.

[Jen0os]

Thank you SOOO VERY MUCH !!!! :) works peeerfect now :D

[boboo73]

Great stuff, thanks so much for this. Greatly appreciated.

[Televaper]

I am STILL stuck in same place. When I try to enter "Network Shares"->MSHOME\MYCOMPUTER .. it ask username and password. Even after your quide it asks user/passw.

I have given my username and password but it does not work(but if I try to connect this shares from other computer my user/passw work just fine)

And all my NAS shares work just fine (they work with that default "anonymous" username)

HELP PLEASE..

[iampoot]

thank you!

[MrStenjan]

hi, i did what you said in video and it works, but can i password protect the folder that i share so no one else in my network can access it without password, and still access it from my wd tv live? i would be glad if you can discribe it to me how to do it. I tried to leave on password protected sharing in advanced sharing settings but where can i set a password because it stoped working. Thx

[silverthunderbird]

Thanks for your efforts. Simple and to the point!

[silverthunderbird]

@juzdownunder Depends on your media server. I'm using TVersity, and .mkv files are no problem.

[BearNDSquare]

thanks a million for this!

[dbzadam]

Omg I had to manual replace permission on over a 1000 files because of the security steps, I got locked out of everything