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Please help me understand setting up Media Server
macdonjh:
--- Quote from: JimH on March 19, 2023, 12:51:55 pm ---192.168.1.33 is a local address. The other is your outside address (from the Internet).
Turn Media Network off and back on. That will generate a new Access Key. You can also test it there by clicking on the Access Key.
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That 1.33 address may be local, but it's not "on" our router. I don't know why my Client computer is trying to connect to it. I've tried turning Media Server off and on from my Client computer. It didn't generate a new Access Key or solve the problem. Should I have turned it off/on again from my Server computer? Both? (I'll try...)
I just checked my Settings and confirmed my Client computer is only connected to our router, not our neighbor's. As I said, my Server is hard wired to our router.
JimH:
Is your router's address 192.168.1.0?
macdonjh:
Our router's address was .1.1 yesterday, I think.
Resetting Media Server worked, it just took more clicking than I thought it would. I had to click some random drop down menu items to find the reset "button" on my Server computer. Once I "reset", MC28 assigned a new Access Key like you said it would (I had only been unchecking the "Use Network..." button and restarting MC28). I then went to my Client computer and <added> a Library, entered the name of my Shared Library and my new Access Key and everything is working now. I <removed> the old copy of my Shared Library from my Client computer and renamed the new copy to get rid of the "(1)".
Something weird: before I successfully reset Media Server and created a new Access Key I "opened" Playing Now and right-clicked my Shared Library. Part of the information in that pop-up was the Server's IP address: .1.33. I have no idea where that came from. At least yesterday that address was not defined by our router.
Maybe this caused all the trouble? I also noticed on my Client computer under Tools -> Options -> Media Network, the box for "Use Network to share this library and enable DNLA" was checked. With that checked (it's not now), could it have been trying to act as a server for a Library not installed on this computer? Was it trying to contact itself? Whatever it was doing, I don't remember checking that box on my Client computer and Media Server has worked in the past...
Anyway, it's working again. Thank you for your patience, JimH and Xybex.
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