File sharing with different operating systems

Sharing Pictures, Music, and Videos on Windows Media Center Extender

To find videos

1.On the Extender, from the Media Center Start menu, select My Videos.

2.Select Find Videos.

3.Select Add folders, and then select Next.

4.Do one, or both, of the following:

•To add pictures that are on the Media Center PC, select Add folders on this computer.

•To add pictures that are on another computer on the network, select Add shared folders from another computer.

5.Select the folder or folders that contain the music, select Next, and then select Finish.

Note If the options for adding music, pictures, and videos from the Media Center PC and from another computer on the network are both selected, folders are chosen from the Media Center PC first, and then from the other computer.

File sharing with different operating systems

If computers on a home network are running Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows 2000, see the online Help for those operating systems to configure file sharing.

If a shared folder on a Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition computer is password-protected, the contents of the folder cannot be accessed by Media Center Extender. To view the contents of the folder, remove the password protection.

Accessing files on a computer joined to a domain

A computer that is running Windows XP Media Center Edition cannot be joined to a Windows server domain. It must be connected to a peer-to-peer network, such as a network typically found in the home.

Some homes may have a Windows Server 2003 domain. Files stored on computers in the domain can be accessed from a Media Center PC or Media Center Extender. To give users access to a computer in the domain, Anonymous Logon privileges must be enabled on Windows Server 2003.

To turn on Anonymous Logon privileges, see the Microsoft Knowledgebase Article How to Allow Anonymous Logon in NFS and in Windows Server 2003 or in Windows Storage Server 2003 (NAS).