Sharing media between XP Home SP2 and Xbox 360

Hoping someone out there can help.

Broadband provider: Comcast

Router: MSFT Broadband Networking Wireless Base Station (MN-700/Xbox
compatible)

Xbox Console: Xbox 360 with wireless network adapter

OS: Windows XPHome SP2

I am trying to access media files on my networked PC using Xbox 360.

On the PC side - I have downloaded WMP11 and Zune and set up media sharing
rights. The Xbox 360 is recognized by the PC and I have checked the box to
allow all devices to access my media. I have also checked that all the
relevant ports (UPNP, WMC and Zune) are open on the PC to enable media
sharing. I have also disabled my client side firewall (Windows One Care) but
was still unable to get it to work.

On the Xbox side - I am using my wireless network to acess XBox Live with no
issues. I have been able to download Xbox Live Arcade and movies with no
issues. When I try to access music on the media blade however (or pictures)
- it gives me an error message of: cannot find computers running media
sharing software. When I run the media connection test - it fails at the
point of select PC. Under Edit settings - the Xbox is recognizing my network
and has the appropriate IP address, subnet, gateway, DNS, etc.

In the Microsoft Broadband Utility - there are no network devices found on
the local network . When I go into the management tool, however, it lists
the IP address of the Xbox under DHCP client list.

On the advice of Xbox support, I tried setting up the Xbox IP address as a
DMZ using the router management tools, but that did not help.

After two calls to Xbox support they pointed back to a router problem. I
was dropped on my support call to MSFT regarding the routher.

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions you may have to solve this
problem.

 

Joe, try posting to the microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter newsgroup.
This newsgroup supports Microsoft's Broadband Networking brand hardware and
software only.

 

Ok Chris. I have posted on the Media Center site. I wasn't sure if this was
an OS software issue or a MSFT branded router hardware/software issue.
Sounds like you believe this situation is unrelated to the router
hardware/software.

Thanks for the pointer.

 

Sorry, I just caught that you're running Windows OneCare, which will block
access from the Xbox 360. You might want to check out this Microsoft
Knowledge Base article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910635/ and there
is another link toward the bottom which may apply.

 

Awesome! Glad you got it functioning correctly!