Xbox 360 Media Center not seeing Network Drives with Videos.

I have Media Center 2005 Rollup 2 installed on main PC. I also have a
NAS Drive (network drive that contains all my music, video and
pictures). I also have an Xbox 360 networked with CAT5 to a router.

For the past 5 months everything has been working perfectly. I had
Windows Media Connect and have been using the Xbox 360 to view videos
from my network drive. In the videos section it would show the network
drive as \\SYN\Video\* and all the libraries/folders. The same would
appear on my media center PC in the videos sections (\\SYN\Video and
all the folders containing the videos).

Then a week or two ago I accepted the Microsoft update for Windows
Media Player 11. I installed it, and from that day onwards, I do not
see my \\SYN\Video folder appear on my Xbox 360 Media center. I only
see local video folders. I had to allow the Xbox 360 access to the
Shared folder, which I gave, but Xbox 360 did not see the \\SYN\VIDEO\*
folders.

However I do see the \\SYN\Video folders on my Main PC's media Center
and I am able to play them without any trouble.

The NAS drive is a UPnP device so should be found easily, but alas I
have not been able to Add it either.

When I click Add Video on Xbox 360, it only shows local shares on my
network (e.g. my other PC and what I am sharing).

Another thing, in the past I have used Transcode 360 to view the videos
that are not Windows Supported (AVI, DIVX etc). That is still loaded.

I have tried just about everything on my Media Center PC:
* Uninstalled the Media Connect software.
* UNinstalled the Media Extender Software (XboxMCELite-ENU.exe /
XboxMCE05Lite-enu.exe). I notice there is a new Media Extender file
"XboxMCE05Lite-enu.exe", which got me thinking it had something to do
with this file.
* Uninstalled Windows Media Player 11 (Rolled back to WMP 10).
* Re-installed all the correct software by that I mean, from the
Xbox/Microsoft Site.
* Re-Entered a new 8 digit secure code.

On my Xbox 360:
* I have removed Computer from network.
* I have removed Media Center from network.
* Followed the steps to connecting to PC.

I am stuck. Has anyone had this problem, and if so, what do I need to
do to get it working again.

Cheers,

Mike

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