Files Visible Over WiFi and Hard-Wired, But Won't Open Over WiFi?

My laptop (Asus 901, XP Pro) can see files on another PC (Linux
box).

What's more it can see them over WiFi and over hard-wired
Ethernet (WiFi controller turned off).

It can open small image (.png) files either way

Windows MediaPlayer can open large .mpg files either way - albeit
way jerkily via WiFi.

But another Windows app, MythTv Player 0.4.2, cannot.

One diff is that the problem app is going against an SQL AnyWhere
DB instead of directly to the .mpgs.

Can anybody suggest a reason for the diff? Seems like there's
something tb config'd in the WiFi connection. Some protocol?

--
PeteCresswell

(PeteCresswell)

The WiFi is completely irrelevant and has nothing to do with the problem.

The WiFi is nothing more than the transport medium,...it has nothing to do
with the access methods, or access controls.

--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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"(PeteCresswell)" <> wrote in message
news:...
> My laptop (Asus 901, XP Pro) can see files on another PC (Linux
> box).
>
> What's more it can see them over WiFi and over hard-wired
> Ethernet (WiFi controller turned off).
>
> It can open small image (.png) files either way
>
> Windows MediaPlayer can open large .mpg files either way - albeit
> way jerkily via WiFi.
>
> But another Windows app, MythTv Player 0.4.2, cannot.
>
> One diff is that the problem app is going against an SQL AnyWhere
> DB instead of directly to the .mpgs.
>
> Can anybody suggest a reason for the diff? Seems like there's
> something tb config'd in the WiFi connection. Some protocol?
>
> --
> PeteCresswell

Phillip Windell

Hi
Could be that the functional "Speed" the WIFI is too low for the tasks that
you are trying.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

"(PeteCresswell)" <> wrote in message
news:...
> My laptop (Asus 901, XP Pro) can see files on another PC (Linux
> box).
>
> What's more it can see them over WiFi and over hard-wired
> Ethernet (WiFi controller turned off).
>
> It can open small image (.png) files either way
>
> Windows MediaPlayer can open large .mpg files either way - albeit
> way jerkily via WiFi.
>
> But another Windows app, MythTv Player 0.4.2, cannot.
>
> One diff is that the problem app is going against an SQL AnyWhere
> DB instead of directly to the .mpgs.
>
> Can anybody suggest a reason for the diff? Seems like there's
> something tb config'd in the WiFi connection. Some protocol?
>
> --
> PeteCresswell

Jack \(MVP-Networking\).