wireless lan

Mike69 · 2008-02-27, 21:18

what is the best way to watch movies (avi/mkv) over a wireless lan?
is it with a shared folder betwen the 2 computers?

charli181 · 2008-02-27, 23:53

I have it setup so that on the drive that has the movies a shared folder and added a username the same as the client machine as I have no domain setup at home. Then on the client side, I have used unc (\\servername\sharename) connection instead of mapped drive. The advantages to this are that I can then copy the database & thumbs folder and mediaportal.xml to another client and it will work straight away with little to no reconfig.

But others have done it other ways as well.

Mike69 · 2008-02-28, 10:46

tks charli181 thats a good tip...

charli181 · 2008-02-28, 12:17

no worries

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Mike69 Portal Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Age: 96 Posts: 66 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	tks charli181 thats a good tip...