KenUK - 1 month ago »
I can use my newly bought FVP4000T to play files in the lounge stored on my PC upstairs, but when on my (Windows 7) PC upstairs I can't see the Humax as a drive at all under "My PC". I can see it under "Network" as a "Media Device" and under "Other devices" as a "dial server", but can't access any files to click and drag them (although I can see them if I double click the icons as files in WMP, apparently protected, and unplayable).
Have meticulously followed all settings instructions from Humax about Samba & Network servers & FTP to no avail.
Humax help team suggests "security settings on your PC are interfering with the network operations", but not how to go about changing them, so I switched off the firewall completely and it made no difference.
I've also found that the Network map says "the following discovered devices cannot be placed in the map", but doesn't say why not or what you can do about it.
Odd behaviour of the Humax so far has included deleting all recordings when I transferred a small mpeg from a USB stick to its hard drive (fortunately not a big deal as the device is only days old, but quite a major negative if it happens again); and never starting settings unless I press the Home button twice. I presume these glitches are irrelevant, but mention them in case they aren't.
I'd be most grateful for any help anyone can offer.
I've been struggling for weeks to get the FVP-4000T to appear as a mapped drive on any of my Windows PC. I did manage to get it to appear in the Network as a media device on some of them but it would not appear in the Network on others at all.
I played around with security settings, ports, firewalls etc but finally today hit on the solution which works for me.
Firstly open file explorer and select Map Network Drive. Select a suitable drive letter and then in the server path box type \\192.168.0.3\recordings\ - obviously you need to use your Humax's IP address which you can read from the Network section of Settings.
When I first did this the Recordings folder appeared as drive Z but was completely empty even though I knew there were recordings in there so I went back into the Humax settings and turned off the FTP server, turned off the Download folder and cancelled the password option. With just SAMBA server on, I went back into Network Server and restarted the Server under Server Status.
Immediately the empty folder was populated with all the TV recordings which can now be copied to the PC.
I probably won't use the Download folder option but I would hope that now having started this process it should be possible to continue with the same logic and set up file copying of image or video files from PC to Humax.
I hope this helps.
Richard
| Sat 26 Dec 2015 23:42:50
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