Cannot access Windows 7 shares from a Netgear media player
I have a Netgear EVA8000 media player which succesfully accesses media on both Windows XP and Vista shares and streams it to my TV. A new PC running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit with similar shares cannot be accessed. I have tried Guest accounts, admin accounts, full access accounts with and without passwords and I cannot access the media. In the Netgear device, after creating a share on W7, I can scan all shared drives and the Netgear will initially see the shared folders. It will even detect the media in the shared folders but it will not play it saying that access is denied. If I then try again, the Netgear does not even see the folders, and will not until the W7 machine is rebooted, or the share re-created. I have tried Homegroups and public folders as well, and they do not work either.
April 13th, 2010 12:57pm

Hi, Please temporarily turn off firewall on Windows 7 machine and access the NETGEAR Media Player again. If it does not work, please also refer to the link below: Works! Eva8000 and Windows 7 Note: The third-party product discussed here is manufactured by a company that is independent of Microsoft. We make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this product's performance or reliability. As it is a third party device, you can also try to contact NETGEAR to see if there is any quick solution. Thanks,Novak
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April 16th, 2010 10:17am

Hi Novak, If you have a look at the thread link that you gave me, you'll see that there are 2 issues with Netgear and Windows 7 compatibility. The first concerns the Netgear software DEW, of which I have no interest, and the second which is the Netgear accessing Windows 7 shared folders and files. This is the one which is causing all of the problems. The Netgear box will happily access shares on XP and Vista and stream video, music and pictures. It is only shares on Windows 7 that it cannot access correctly. To be more precise, the Netgear can see the shares and it can even see the files in the folders, but it cannot access those files to stream them to a TV. it does not have the correct permissions. Please read the mesages in the thread, particularly the one from muzicman61. I have tried the following tests, all of which with the Windows Firewall turned off:- General shares for read/write with access to everyone. Specific shares with access to admins only. Public folders with access to everyone and specifically admins Homegroups Media streaming on and off In short I have tried everything that I can think of and everything that I can find in any forums, and believe me there are a lot more people like me who have come to the same conclusion, Windows 7 shares behave very differently from those on Vista and XP. By the way, in all of the above tests, I have been able to access those W7 shares from other XP and Vista machines with no problem. So to my way of thinking you have an operating system that cannot provide a similar level of functionality to 2 previous versions. Aside from this rather glaring schoolboy error, I think W7/64 is a great product, or at least it will be when it's finished. Thanks, Les
April 30th, 2010 9:58am

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