"Keith G" wrote in message
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"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)...

That's why it is necessary to assign the IP address so it is
in the trusted zone on the router. But yes if all else
fails turn off any firewalls (with plug to the outside world
pulled of course) and try then as well.

Cheers TT