"TT" wrote in message
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"jb" wrote in message
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I recently bought a Cambridge Audio 640H music server. I'm
more than
pleased with it, I find it easy to operate and I've
already uploaded
much of my music collection to it. Its networking
capabilities, though,
have defeated me. It has hooked up to the internet through
my router
and accesses title / artist details and internet radio as
it should,
but I can't get it to "talk" to anything else on my home
network.
Ideally I'd like to be able to "see" the desktop PC from
the music
server and vice versa. The available documentation is not
exactly
informative, it just mentions in passing that the 640H
uses the PC's
"guest" account, which unfortunately mean nothing to me.

There must be someone out there who's succeeded in getting
their 640H
to talk to their PC so any help you could pass on would be
much
appreciated. If it's any help, the network is called
"home" and is
password protected to prevent unauthorised access to
router's wifi
channel.


Well actually it is very easy. Mine is hard wired to a
router and works perfectly and yes the book is vague but it
is all there.

I assume you are using Win XP?
First up assign an IP address to the 640H that is in the IP
range of your router.
Make sure the 640H has a name (I called mine AZUR)
Next enable file sharing on your computer.
Then enter into the 640H the network address of the file you
want to read.
e.g \\ your computer's name\music file

BTW don't forget the double "\\" as it is a network address
;-)

Also if you open in Windows: Start Search Computers or
People type in Azur and see if your computer can find it as
well.

Hope this helps.


And don't forget to tell your firewall it's a 'Trusted Zone' (or
whatever)...