Jason
Thu May 01 06:39:19 PDT 2008
There is...
It involves creating a new user and using login scripts.
Getting your Media Center Extender to connect to a remote file server
http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2005/01/17/354999.aspx
This method is more secure than allowing Guest access. I would highly
recommending not choosing the 'easier' solution of enabling the Guest
account at the expense of opening your computer up (in a secuirty sense)
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"discovia" <donal.conlon@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:5a931ad6-7354-45f8-bd59-1f1fb52ca22a@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...
Thanks! That worked. Was hoping there was a different way than
enabling Guest account.
On Apr 30, 4:49 pm, "Art Nadelman" <a...@nadelman.us> wrote:
> I had the problem a few weeks ago. According to documentation I read on
> the
> Microsoft site (sorry I can't give you the specific URL), you simply need
> to
> enable the Guest account on the WHS. This will give them access the
> folders. I tried it on mine and it fixed this problem.
>
> Art Nadelman (no initials after my name)
>
> "Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]" <dkno...@Spammvps.org> wrote in
> messagenews:A7ECEFBE-1C57-4625-A94B-A1337FE89F09@microsoft.com...
>
>
>
> > You would need to log into the server via Remote Desktop and adjust the
> > permissions on the shared folders. You would need to set them to
> > Everyone
> > for at least read access. And you can add Anonymous users with whatever
> > access you need to give.
>
> > --
> > Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart
> > Display\Security
> > Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
> >
http://www.dougknox.com
> > --------------------------------
> > Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
> >
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
> > --------------------------------
> > Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
> > Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.
>
> > "discovia" <donal.con...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:21a72782-ef71-4b40-8766-6f17f9744877@34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Ok, thanks for that. So how do i get it to work?
>
> > On Apr 29, 7:45 pm, "Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]" <dkno...@Spammvps.org>
> > wrote:
> >> This is most likely a permissions issue. The 360 uses the MCX user
> >> account,
> >> which does not have a matching username/password combination on the WHS
> >> machine
>
> >> --
> >> Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart
> >> Display\Security
> >> Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
> >> --------------------------------
> >> Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP
> >> Pro
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
> >> --------------------------------
> >> Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
> >> Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.
>
> >> "discovia" <donal.con...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >>news:0a0d82c3-2017-4d54-b39a-d961be94d307@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com...
>
> >> >I have yet to find a solution to this.
>
> >> > I have all my movies and music on my WHS. When i try to access them
> >> > from XBox360 through media center, it cannot see them. The music is
> >> > in the default music folder, which has Guest read access. The movies
> >> > are in a folder called Movies which also has guest read access.
>
> >> > When i browse to music on media center it cannot see the sared
> >> > folders.
> >> > When i try to play a movie through My Movies 2, it disaplys the path
> >> > of the movie, ok but if i try to play it, media complains with "path
> >> > not found".
>
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