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After recently moving to WHS and having a few headaches along the way I thought I would post a summary of the steps needed to get it working right for extenders.
This is condensed from information in various threads.
Movie format used in this guide is DVR-MS.
Step 1. Figure out where you will be storing the movies. I created a share called MyMovies. You can create a subfolder in the movies share and it might solve a lot of headaches.
Step 2. Install the WHS connector software on the VMC machine.
Step 3.
-Open the WHS Console
-Click on settings
-Select the Windows Media Center option
-Give the share you created Full or Read access depending on your preference.
-Reboot the VMC computer
-If this is not done, you will get an error in MM saying that the file cannot be found
Step 4.
-RDP or go to the desktop of the WHS server
-Open Windows Explorer
-Expand My Computer
-Click on Data(D:)
-Expand MyMovies
-Right Click on FileStorage
-Select "Sharing and Security"
-Click Permissions
-Click Add
-Type Everyone, then click OK --edit, for the security minded type the following WHSSERVERNAME\MC-HTPCNAME, ie if your WHS is names FAMILYSERV and the MCE PC is named FAMILYMCE it would be FAMILYSERV\MC-FAMILYMCE
-Check at least Read, and Full Control and Change if you want
-Click OK
This will fix the missing cover art on the extender
Step 5. Copy your content to the share and enjoy!
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Thanks, this solved my issue with two of three extenders. On my main extender I now have a situation where on My Mvies main screen (where all the movies are displayed for the first time) show as individual line items with no icons or graphics attached . Obviously I have a setting that is wrong. Having viewed all the Forum notes and gone through the various "options" buttons multiple times I still cannot find the right mainscreen so that all the graphics once again appear. WHS has been recycled along with all the extenders but I still end up with this one extender only showing the movie title with no graphics. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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OK, I have followed all of these steps and I still see no cover art on the HP MediaSmart Connect or XBOX extenders! Please help!
Regards,
John
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I had to do some additional steps to get video playing on the extender. I RDP'd into the Home Server and then went into the "Sharing & Security" setting of the share that has the movie files. In that setting page I made sure that both "Anonymous Users" and "Everyone" has read access to that share. Once I did that, everything works great.
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You simply need to enable the Guest account on the WHS.
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