Windows Media Player 11 error when streaming video

I am trying to stream video from my Windows Home Server that has Webguide
running on it and for some reason just recently my vista laptop is not doing
it. i keep getting a error message in WMP11 saying, "Windows Media Player
cannot find the file. If you are trying to play, burn, or sync an item that
is in your library, the item might point to a file that has been moved,
renamed, or deleted."

I have tried checking the network settings in WMP11 and nothing there has
changed to my knowlege. I have seen in this forum were several people have
had this issue with previous versions of Media Player but there never seems
to be a clear cut answer of how to fix it. My media on my local disc seems
to play fine in it and again this just started happening recently but it has
worked in the past. I am not sure if SP1 for vista has something to do with
this or not. Any help on this would be great!

Thanks,
-Scott

Neil
Thu May 01 14:04:02 PDT 2008

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:17:00 -0700, smicale
<smicale@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I am trying to stream video from my Windows Home Server that has Webguide
>running on it and for some reason just recently my vista laptop is not doing
>it. i keep getting a error message in WMP11 saying, "Windows Media Player
>cannot find the file. If you are trying to play, burn, or sync an item that
>is in your library, the item might point to a file that has been moved,
>renamed, or deleted."

So these items are already listed in the media player library (on the
Vista laptop) but won't play ?

I'd check for changed permissions on the folders on the home server -
if the server has allowed the laptop access once but you no longer get
asked to authenticate when you browse the filesystem from the laptop,
then your credentials may have expired.

Although WHS is listed as a "server", effectively you're just using it
like a big fat file share in WMP - you're moving the files to the
player, not actually streaming the data from the server as it plays.

For starters, the player should have those WHS content folders listed
as monitored folders :
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq/sharing.mspx#q20_12

Also mentioned - file permissions for the laptop should be checked :
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq/sharing.mspx#q20_14

The laptop may also not be setup for remote content sharing :
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq/sharing.mspx#q20_17

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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