I'm running Vista Home Premium on a PC with a wired connection to a Linksys
WRT54GX2 router. I also have a XBox 360 with wired connection to the same
router. Both the PC and the XBox see each other and on the XBox I can go to
the "media blade" the choose either music or pictures and play music or a
slide show. The problem comes when I try to add the XBox as a media extender
on the PC. The XBox gives me the 8 digit code and when I input it at the PC
it tells me I have at least one firewall in addition to the built-in Windows
Firewall and tells me I need to manually configure it. I've tried opening
ports and also just turning off the firewall but Media Center keeps telling
me there is a configuration error "an error was encountered while confgureing
your computer for use with this extender".

What confusses me is why I can view pictures and play music from my xbox
but can't add it as a extender from my PC.

Help!

Thanks,

FarNorth

what firewall is this? try uninstalling it.

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:55:00 -0800, FarNorth
<FarNorth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:


Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/

It's a Linksys router. I have turned off it's internal firewall and I have
told the Windows firewall to allow the XBox 360.

Also the Xbox is shown in my network folder in Vista. And in media sharing
it shows the xbox and that it's allowed to find music, pictures and video.

Thanks for taking the time to help....



"Barb Bowman" wrote:

is the multicast filtering set to enable?
is UPnP on?
do you have the most recent firmware for the router?

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:46:00 -0800, FarNorth
<FarNorth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:


Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/

Couple more questions in addition to Barb's:
- What other firewall software is installed on your PC? (e.g. Norton,
McAfee, OneCare)
- If you look in the Application, System, Media Center, and Security Event
Viewer logs (right click Computer --> Manage), are there any errors that
correspond to the time that you attempted to add your Xbox 360 as an
Extender?

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"FarNorth" <FarNorth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I did find lots of errors and warnings. All have something to do with
"Mcx2Dvcs"
Error Code 114.

I am running Norton Antivirus but not Norton Firewall.





"Todd Bowra [MSFT]" wrote:

I've made a bit more progress.

I was able to delete the media extender host certicicate and when I tried to
add the extender back it got thru "configuring computer settings" and
"setting power saving features" but couldn't locate the extender. On the
Xbox when I test the media connection everything is fine except the PC
connection fails now. Before I did this the PC connection was fine.

FYI: my setup key is correct and UPnP is enabled on my router.



"Todd Bowra [MSFT]" wrote:

OK,, I forgot to open the ports on my router but after I did and ran the
"test media connection" on the xbox again. Now I have a good connection to
the PC and can again play music and browse pictures. But when I try to add
the extender within media center on the PC I again get thru the "configuring
computer settings" and "setting power saving features" but still can locate
the extender.



"Todd Bowra [MSFT]" wrote:

You should not have to open any ports on the router. Those are only for
traffic from the outside world in to your LAN. Connections on the LAN side
of the router are not firewalled against each other.

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"FarNorth" <FarNorth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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yup,, your right,, no need to open them up.

Still having the problem, but a bit different now.

When I turn on my Xbox my PC pops of the little ballon telling me it's found
an extender and asks if I would like to set it up now. I click "yes" and it
proceeds thru "Configuring computer setting" then to "Searching for Extender"
but then says it cant find the extender..

lol,, and now as I'm typing this I ran the "add extender" again just so I
could see what the error message was it actually found it this time and
finished the setup.. Nothing changed, I was just typing away.

Well,, I thing great and go to look at the TV and sure enough it's running.
I swith over to browse to "live tv" and scroll thru a few stations and
everything seems to work fine until I try to close "live tv" then nothing
works, my extender cant find the media pc and it tells me it's lost the
connection to the media pc under "test media connection" and when I try to
run "tune network" on the pc it tells me it cant find the extender now.

I've checked and doubled checked all the physical connections and they are
fine and as far as I know nothing changed except me walking from one room to
another and back...

Any ideas??

Thanks in advance,, and Happy New Year!



"Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]" wrote:

It sounds like there's some network weirdness here. Let's start by taking
your router out of the picture - try directly connecting your PC to your
Xbox 360 using an Ethernet cable (completely bypassing your router) to
identify/eliminate your router as the source of the problem. Note that
because you are bypassing your home router, you'll need to manually toggle
the network type back to Home in the Windows Firewall settings when you
switch to a direct connection.

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"FarNorth" <FarNorth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Yeah,, that was the problem.

My MB has two 10/100/1000 ports built in, I just used the extra one to go
directly to the Xbox and it took right off and works great. What I don't
understand is why I could use the music player on the xbox to listen to music
and I could also browse photo's and play slide shows but the PC still
wouldn't see the xbox.. hmm.. well all is working good now.

Thanks for all the help.

"Todd Bowra [MSFT]" wrote:

I have the very same problem as FarNorth here, except when i connect my Vista
Media Center Pc and my xbox 360 using a patch ethernet cable, i still receive
the same hanging error where the media center and the media center are unable
to connect. At this point, i have already configured my firewall for the
correct port configuration, and then eliminated it all together by disabling
(my firewall is the mcafee comcast edition ). So to sum it up, i have my pc
connected directly to the xbox (via cat5e patch cable ) bypassing my router
with the firewall disabled and my ip setting @ automatic. i have also
deleted old certificates. my computer is up to date with all hardware
updates. my only conlusion is that my xbox 360 may be out of date needing an
upgrade, or there is some minute connection error possibly that i have not
setup on either the xbox or my pc. can anyone help?

"FarNorth" wrote:

On Thu, 8 May 2008 02:41:01 -0700, physicsmajor <physicsmajor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

If you connect directly PC to Xbox 360 you would need to use a crossover cable & either set up
Internet Connection Sharing on the PC so that it gives out an IP address or give the Xbox 360 a
fixed Ethernet address in the same subnet as the PC.
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Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP