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Gilgamesh on 09 November 2008
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nordlead said:
Gilgamesh said:

Hmmm I'll try to help as much as possible because I had this same problem but it's a little different for me, first of all I have a wired modem and I have it wired right to my pc and PS3 and also I have windows XP but here's what I did to get it working.

First I went to windows media player, tools, options, then library. Click on configure sharing then see if the PS3 is there if it is allow it. If it's not there it there, then it could be a firewall blocking it so you can try to disable all the firewalls. When I got it finally appearing on the PS3 it still wouldn't work, then I found out that my firewall on my antivirus program (BitDefender) wasn't allowing it to connect to my PC so I had to disable the firewall in my antivirus program in order to make it work.

I'm not sure if this is going to help but I hope it does.

I didn't think to shut off my antivirus software, so I shut that off, and shut off the firewall for my router, but that didn't seem to change anything.

I do have a question though. Do you just see the PS3 in WMP11, or can you see it in your network places/connections too. My PC doesn't seem to see it at all. I can ping it, but other than that the PC doesn't know it exists.

@Munkeh111

for a network HDD, it must be a DLNA server. Some network harddrives are, some aren't, so you would have to look up information on the model. Other than that, I don't have a clue (or else I wouldn't be posting here )

@jo21

the PS3 doesn't even show up on WMP, which is my real problem.

I don't think it's suppose to show up in  network places/connections I just turned on the PS3 and it didn't show up so I'm pretty sure it's just in WMP. I'm trying to remember what I did because I was having a somewhat similar problem, it wasn't showing up in WMP at all, but now it's constantly there, even when the PS3 is off. Its gonna be under the name of "Unknown Device" if that helps.

But if nothing at all is showing up at in WMP then I'm not sure what to tell you, again you have a different connection then me, ures is wireless and mine is wired so it could be a little different. But I think the problem I had, had something to do with the firewall.

But just in case did you try clicking on "Allow other devices and computers automatically"? in the configure sharing and in settings? Not sure if it will help but it's worth a shot. Sorry I couldn't help much, I know it was a pain in the ass trying to get that working, but it's awful convient if you can actually get it going.