Re: Turning on Media Sharing in WMP11

Keith,

Thanks for that I assume those need to be turned on in the firewall only?

I have a ZoneAlarm s/w firewall, but no firewall in the Netgear router.

In fact the WMP11 Help says the following need to be turned on:-
1900
UDP
local subnet only

2869
TCP
local subnet only

10243
TCP
local subnet only

10280-10284
UDP
local subnet only



I have done so, as I say in ZA, in the Trusted Zone, setting all in both the
outgoing and incoming connections.

Nigel


"Keith" <Keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hey guys I had the same problem. The trick is to open a couple of ports on
your router or firewall.

You need to open port s:

2869 TCP
1900 UDP

These need to be opend locally on the computer that is running WMP only.

For instance, in my Linksys router I have configured :

Start Port: 0
End Port: 2869
Protocal: TCP
IP Address: 192.168.1.103 (the IP of the computer running WMP Server)

Start Port: 0
End Port: 1900
Protocal: UDP
IP Address: 192.168.1.103

Also, I remember having to give permissions for uPnP to run. I can't
remember off had what the proceadure was, but I had to give the Local
Machine
or Local something group permissions to start the uPnP service.

Look up uPnP Service Permissions or something like that on Google. Sorry I
can't be more specific, but the informations is out there and not too hard
to
find on your own. Good luck!
"Nigel Andrews" wrote:

In WMP11 when I select Library/Media Sharing and check 'share my media'
then
OK after a few seconds the OK returns but nothing has changed!
I have selected (I think) the ports it requires in ZoneAlarm.

Can anyone say why the Sharing doesn't even seem to set up?

Thank-you

Nigel





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