How to share media stored in an attached drive using Windows Media Player?
Posted
by
David
on Super User
See other posts from Super User
or by David
Published on 2009-11-18T08:17:12Z
Indexed on
2012/03/19
2:07 UTC
Read the original article
Hit count: 492
windows-media-player
We've got a Windows 7 PC with a Windows Media Player music library that includes both files on the internal hard drive and files on a USB-attached hard drive. When we browse this library from another Windows Media Player (on another Windows 7 machine) we see only the files residing on the library host's internal drive. The files residing on the attached drive don't show up at all, yet on the host they appear undistinguished within the library.
Is there a configuration change we can make to cause the attached files to be shared properly?
We've turned on read-sharing for "Everyone" on the USB drive, but that hasn't helped. Also it might be worth noting that this issue behaves the same way for us if the client machine is a Playstation 3.
© Super User or respective owner