{"id":174,"date":"2013-12-23T20:18:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2015-11-24T20:51:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T20:51:42","slug":"mediasharing-with-windows8-and-windows7-on-a-local-network-is-possible-how-to-make-sure-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/mediasharing-with-windows8-and-windows7-on-a-local-network-is-possible-how-to-make-sure-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"#MediaSharing with #Windows8 and #Windows7 on a local network is possible &ndash; how to make sure it works&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had some problems with sharing media from a Windows 7 machine to a Windows 8.1 machine.&nbsp; After some playing about I found that it was possible to re-ensure in the security tab in Windows 7 that ALL the folders that I want to share have the WMP security assigned.&nbsp; To do this, simply go to the upper most folder and ensure its present, if you need to, just un-tick the READ and re-tick and then press OK.&nbsp; It will then spider through ensuring that all sub-folders have it assigned.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, in Windows 8.1 make sure that your Windows LOCAL CREDENTIALS are correctly set up.&nbsp; To do this, go to the Control Panel, go to User settings.&nbsp; You will see an option to alter the Web Credentials and Windows Credentials.&nbsp; In Windows Credentials add the name of the PC that contains the music, add in your login ID and add in you password and press OK.<\/p>\n<p>Restart Windows 8.1 and log back in.&nbsp; Then go to Media Player and head to the shared \/ streamed PC and you should now have access to all the music to stream through your local network\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had some problems with sharing media from a Windows 7 machine to a Windows 8.1 machine.&nbsp; After some playing about I found that it was possible to re-ensure in the security tab in Windows 7 that ALL the folders that I want to share have the WMP security assigned.&nbsp; To do this, simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,10,25,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-technology","category-windows-2","category-windows-8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mjsZ-2O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}