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My WD Live constantly looses the network share(wired over cat6 through a switch) and it takes random re-bootings of it and my host computer and futzing around with IP addresses to get it to see it again. What am I doing wrong? It will work fine for weeks at a time then suddenly for no reason not be able to see the host. Or it will randomly start asking for a username/password.
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Dec 20, 2011 03:35
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It seems like it either will work as seeing the computer as a media server, or as a network share, but only one or the other. If one way works the other doesn't and it changes randomly. I'd prefer it to work all the time with the network share so the thumbnails work but for now it's stuck in server mode. I'm going to try and flash the b-rad firmware that is floating around it looks like it solves alot of the factory bugs.
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Dec 25, 2011 16:01
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Drizzt01 posted:Turn on netbios on the computer you are streaming from. (Windows 7 only turns it on if it detects a legacy device) I would only have the file browser show up sometimes also, after I turned that on it shows up every time. It had been working for a few weeks again, but stopped the other day for no reason. I turned the netbios on and BAM! works perfectly now. Thanks for the tip 
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Jan 27, 2012 06:02
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Push the option button and change the view to thumbnail view instead of list view and it should display whatever the folder.jpg is in the folder.
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Feb 2, 2012 01:32
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rivetz posted:EDIT: Is it possible that this is related to me sharing these mkvs via media server and not via network share? For some stupid reason the WDTV won't see my PC in network shares but will see it as a media server. I've double-checked/updated codecs on the server multiple times, no dice. I installed the B-Rad firmware and it hasn't been a problem since.
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Apr 13, 2012 00:01
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BANME.sh posted:I have had strange network problems like this since the day I bought my WDTV Live a few years ago, despite upgrading the firmware. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes certain configurations work better than others, sometimes not. I really have no idea why network shares are so finicky. Right now it won't even show my media PC in the list. I have to use a usb stick and manually transfer videos back and forth from my PC to the WDTV Live like a goddamn caveman. I want to upgrade to the newest WDTV Live Streaming so I can use netflix, but I'm worried about similar networking issues. Plus it looks a whole lot nicer than the vanilla firmware.
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Sep 24, 2012 20:37
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Have you guys complaining about the problems tried the b-rad firm ware? I had nothing but problems with streaming and it randomly losing the connection to the host computer until I loaded the firmware. Plus I changed the look of my wallpaper and browser and screen saver to less ugly things. It takes like 5 mins to stick it on a flash drive and load it up.
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Jun 30, 2013 19:03
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Looks like this:
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Jun 30, 2013 20:08
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Cowcatcher posted:/\/\/\ For gords sake man, change your custom title I don't think there has actually been a new version released in some time. The forums that support it are pretty good about figuring out issues if you give them enough info. I never had a problem with it booting up, just stick the files on a usb stick and shove it in the back and it works. I don't use all of the features it supports like movie sheets and the ability to use bit-torrent on it or the ftp stuff, it adds tons more functionality to the box. I mostly started using it because my shares would randomly disappear and it would take a dance of restarting the box, restart the host computer, restart the box, etc... to get them to show back up again. Now it just works all the time. Oh and I use a custom theme/wallpaper/screen saver so it doesn't look so ugly.
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Jul 13, 2013 23:44
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The WD works the same way it'll just play what's in the folder till the last one. You can set it up to have it stream a playlist from windows media player on a computer networked to it. But sounds like you don't have it networked so not really an option.
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Oct 19, 2013 15:07
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Mine randomly loses connections to network shares. Changing the home group name on the computers and the wdtv itself always seems to fix it.
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Mar 21, 2015 14:33
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