Network Share Problems on XP - Possible Fix Options

[SplittingDistant]

Like a lot of people I was unable to see the shared folders residing on my XP (Home) PC despite doing all that seemed to be necessary. The WDTV box would not even 'find' my PC from "Network Shares".

After a lot of fiddling, and faffing I discovered that at some point in the past I had disabled some XP services which the WDTV Live Network Share system needed.

It would appear that if you want to connect your WDTV Live to your PC's Shared Folders you need to ensure that the services "Network DDE" and "Network DDE DSDM" are not disabled.

To do this: Start Button, Administrative Tools, Services, locate "Network DDE" and ensure that Start Up Type is "Automatic". If it's shown as "Disabled", right click the "Network DDE" entry and use the Properties Tab to set it to "Automatic".

Then do the same for the "Network DDE DSDM" service.

I then rebooted both the PC and the WDTV Live and everything was fine.

Good luck, and I hope it works for you.

Note: Windows Live ID Assistant is known to cause problems, so remove it as mentioned here.

[davidibiza]

Hello, maybe I'am a bit dumb but I dont find it. Network DDE? Where is it?

THX

[SplittingDistant]

David,

Click your "Start Button, then click Administrative Tools, then Services, then locate the entry for "Network DDE in the list of services.

Hopefully this will help.

And to those of you who this has helped, best wishes and thanks for your thanks (if you see what I mean (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Merry Christmas All,

SplittingDistant.

[davidibiza]

Found it in control panel thanks!, now I can see my computer but it doesnt allow me to log in, whatever I write in the login, it was working yesterday with my Emtec N200.

Any idea?

[deathracer]

This fix worked for me as well on 2 different computers.

***Be aware, if you use the program "Windows System Care" (formally "Advaced Windows Care2"), under the optimization section, these 2 services will be disabled by default. However, you can simply set this optimization to be "ignored"