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[dmm]

I am running a home network with one MC14 running on a headless media server running Windows XP Pro.  It has two 192.168.x.x addressed network connections (one gigE the other 10/100M ethernet.)

I have 6 client machines running various operating systems (W2K, Vista Home basic, Vista Home Premium, XP Pro, XP Home) on GigE, 10/100M and 802.11 wireless connections to the media server.  All of the clients are running exclusively as MC14 clients.  The clients have no local library's nor local media files.  The start up MC14 and "search for library servers".  All of the clients find the MC14 acting as a server just fine.

My problem is that my one XP Home and one Vista Home Basic machines can see the library server and play music just fine.  However, if I create a playlist on those machines and then goto "File -> Library -> Library sync..." MC14 searches for changes, updates the library, but the changes are NOT saved.  No error messages are generated, but the search and update process DOES seem to take a minute or two longer then from my other machines.  

Both XP Home and Vista Home Basic machines are connected via wireless.  But one of my W2k machines is also wireless and works fine.  I have tried running MC14 as administrator, but that has not helped.

Does anyone know why XP Home and Vista Home Basic does not like "library sync...." or can anyone think of some other reason why these machines are having a problem?

[dmm]

A little help please from jriver support?

[JimH]

Older build of MC14 on some of the machines?

Different user level?

Virus checker?

[dmm]

1.  I upgraded to the latest and greatest MC14 on all machines when I started having the issues.  Did not help.

2.  Same user level?  Do you mean admin priviliges?  I tried running with admin account, did not help.

3.  All of my machines (the ones that are working as well as not) are using AVG Free anti virus software.   I will try disabling it on the non-working machines and see if it helps.

thanks for your recommendations.  Any other options?  What assumptions or interactions does MC14 client and MC14 library have with windows workgroup/domain/user account settings?

[dcwebman]

BTW, this could be the same problem I'm having in my thread: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=52982#msg362007
My work machine is XP Pro and my library server at home is Vista Home Premium. Same latest version of MC14 and Admin on both. The library server though is running only the Windows Defender that came with Vista as I haven't gotten the time to put an AV program on there yet. Syncing just doesn't work between the two.

I need to go out tonight but will try to find the time to set up another XP machine at home as the library server.

[dcwebman]

I need to go out tonight but will try to find the time to set up another XP machine at home as the library server.

I got an XP machine set up as the library server last night and connected to it remotely today. Everything played fine but the syncing still didn't work. So I guess there's an additional issue with syncing remotely vs. between operating systems.