So I bought a PS3 with the 100 gift card at walmart. At first I didn't think I was going to get one, as the line was huge, but it turns out that most people there didn't even know the PS3 was on sale and were waiting for dirt cheap laptops, or the 46" Sanyo LCD TV's. They sold quite a few PS3's, but they still had at least 2 in stock when I left from the mad rush in the morning.

Anyways, So I bought Assasin's Creed (cool game so far) and I downloaded a ton of demo's and trailers and other things.

But now I need some help. I was trying to set up my Vista PC as a media server (using WM11) but it doesn't find the PS3 for items to share with. I have a Actiontec model MI424-WR wireless router with UPnP enabled, and IP dynamically assigned. I also manually disabled IPSec as I read that can interfear with WM11 sharing media. I can't see the PS3 from my network places either, all I can see is my pc and the wireless router.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this to work. I don't want to buy a new router, but if someone has Vista with a different router working, then I'd love to know.

I'll throw in some more details. The ps3 seems to be using uPnP properly and these port forwarding rules have been setup via UPnP, as I know I didn't add them.

192.168.1.153	192.168.1.153			Windows Media Format SDK (sidebar.exe) - UDP Any -> 51807	Any	Active
192.168.1.153	192.168.1.153			Windows Media Format SDK (sidebar.exe) - UDP Any -> 55440	Any	Active
192.168.1.151	192.168.1.151			Pando - TCP Any -> 57856	Any	Active
192.168.1.153	192.168.1.153			192.168.1.153:3658 to 3658 (UDP) - UDP Any -> 3658	Any	Active

.153 is the PS3, and .151 is my PC

This post keeps asking me to enter a username and password for my router????

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 have tried doing this, but I still haven't worked out how to get it to work

I have a network hard drive, does anyone know how I can stream information of that to the PS3. It can't see it as one of the media devices (it can see my SONOS boxes) but is there any way to get it to work?

did you gave access to the ps3 on wmp?.

also the firewall you maybe using maybe blocking access to the ps3.

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.

You can see your PS3 directly through WMP, or at least through the corresponding Windows menus that pop up when you are setting up sharing. You have to tell Windows to allow sharing with the PS3, and likewise media sharing has to be enabled in general.

Streaming can be a big headache, as your firewall/anti-virus can be very tempermental. You will most likely have to edit setting in your firewall/anti-virus to get things working.

Having a router further complicates things and you will have to unblock it there. This varies widely based on your router, so you should look up the instructions online accordingly. I was able to get the media server working through WMP but not through Nero, but that was because Nero Scout got fucked up somehow.

In all honesty, if you have an external HDD, use that to transfer stuff to your PS3. Its way less of a headache.

I don't care about your media server.

I'm happy you bought a triple! And so did lots of other people!

w00t!

open up windows media player right click on library then media sharing then check both boxes to allow