Re: Can't Connect to Publishing Point

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From: ee99ee (cmiller_at_compuville.net)
Date: 10/13/04


Date: 13 Oct 2004 06:42:09 -0700

Nope, no matter what I do I still get the same error. Looking in the
logs show nothing.

I'm going to totally uninstall Windows Media Services and reinstall
it.

-ee99ee

"Ravi Raman" <ravira@Online.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<089f01c4b0eb$ba3d9e20$a601280a@phx.gbl>...
> Can you actually stream any other content from the
> server? for example, right click on the default
> publishing point and then select "Allow new client
> connections", and then try to stream one of the files in
> the c:\wmpub\wmroot folder (say racecar_100.wmv) as
> mms://yourserverIp/racecar_100.wmv. Does it stream?
>
> Thx,
> Ravi
> --
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I'm trying to get Windows Media Services to stream some
> media. This is
> >a Windows Server 2003 Standard box. Just as a simple
> test, I'm
> >streaming a small static .wmv file I have on my system.
> I put the 2MB
> >..wmv file in C:\wmpub\WMRoot and setup a new publishing
> point called
> >Test.
> >
> >I selected "One file" from the "Content Type" screen,
> and "On-demand
> >publishing point" from the "Publishing Point Type"
> screen. Finally, I
> >entered the path to the file in the "File Location"
> screen and enabled
> >logging.
> >
> >On this box I am running IIS on port 80, so I configured
> the HTTP part
> >of Windows Media Services to run on port 8080 (though
> I'm not going to
> >be doing HTTP streaming, so I might as well disable it).
> >
> >When I try to connect to it (from another computer in
> the same subnet
> >with only a switch between the two), I get: "Windows
> Media Player
> >cannot play the file because a network error occurred."
> Looking in the
> >log files, I see no entries.
> >
> >I can telnet into the server on port 80 (IIS,
> unrelated), 8080, 1755
> >and 554 so everything seems to be running and listening,
> but I still
> >get an error about unable to connect.
> >
> >The name of the publishing point is Test. To open it, I
> went into
> >WMP9, went to File -> Open URL and entered:
> >"mms://192.168.100.147/Test". I also tried
> >"rtsp://192.168.100.147/Test" as the link; however
> neither work.
> >
> >From outside my network, you can access it at:
> >mms://216.234.231.147/Test (Note: You won't be able to
> get to 8080, as
> >I didn't open that in the firewall).
> >
> >I'm at a loss of what to do, and up aginst a deadline.
> Help!
> >.
> >



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