Very Helpful. I use this every time My network crashes and it always fixes my media server.

Thank you!

After many hours of limited success I turned off wmp sharing, downloaded tversity, ran it and everything just worked. Highly recommend tversity (I did have a little win with wmp but tversity is so much faster I have found)

did everything this said to do and my PS3 does not come up under shared devices...

right this is what i done and i can say myself i sat there like a MUG... for hours and hours trying to work it out why it wouldnt work after following the steps above!! not that wasnt any help but this was my problem and probley the problem yous are having if the above dont work...
right here goes click control panel then click proformance and maintenance then clcik administrative tools then go to serivces double click it, then scroll down to windows media player network sharing service right click it and go to properties go down to start up and change it to automatic
click apply then ok once you done that just do a search in your ps3 for media severs and bingo it should show up any probs on this i will be happy to help yabtw let me know if this helps on here thanks...

Hey, icecube, did everything you said and my PS3 cannot find any media servers...

How are you receiving your internet? You have to connect to a router before any kind of modem wireless or not. I had the same problem with a wireless modem that I bought from my local Isp. I connected a linksys wireless router and it worked.

Got connected; now trying to copy all music files from my comp.

Out of all the pairing of the Ps3 & windows xp websites there are are this one truly helped me the most. thank you sincerely. You stopped 4-5 days of frustration and me possibly messing my PC up. Thought I was going to have to get media center in order to share it correctly...lol....I still get some protocol eras but you got it where both my PS3's are sharing all of my media...so thanx again, Derek.

Very helpful article thanks!! One quick tip: If your PS3 is not visible on your PC, it could be because of your firewall settings. Turn it off completely to see if that is the problem.. and make sure to turn it back on after it works..!

Did all this here but nothing changed. Even turned off my firewall to see if that was blocking the ps3. Nothing shows up on my laptop or my ps3.

I have a Dell inpiron 1520 with xp and I can easily share files with any other comps or apple macs, but my ps3 doesn't show up on any of those machines. I set up my ps3's wireless internet easily and got nat type 1 pretty easily too but setting up a network has taken alot of my time with no progress.

Worked great here, thanks for this "tutorial". I'm not a big fan of WMP, but w/e works to get my media streaming to my PS3 I guess. Thanks again.

did everything mentioned above and my ps3 doesnt find media server, and i dont get an unknown device on media player. they just dont seem to communicate with each other. thought icecube was on to something but went through that and start up was already set to automatic. checked router settings and udnp is already enabled. someone please help, everyone i know set theres up no probs but ive had no joy at all

Same problem Neil. I've been all over my router and pc and tweaked everything. M nest step is to call Linksys and see if there's something going on with the comm. btw wired and wireless. I have upnp enabled, I even opened up the ports as documented in WMP11 (which the service should do anyway). The ONLY luck I had was my PS3 saw Azureus on one of my other computers, but that ps c is on a hard line not wireless. It doesnt have WMP11 either. I'm completely stumped as to why teh WMP11 service doesnt show up for the PS3, nor does my PS3 show up in WMP11.

Here's may problem . I had my PS3 running my media files with out a hitch . I have win.XP Pro SP3 & windows media player 11 , no problems what so ever . Now my mother board went south and now i have a new dell (80 gig hdd)i got for $200.00 from a good friend . I took my 250 gig drive and placed it in the dell because it was bigger and had all my files . Now the dell can not see the PS3 . I did ever update i could find and still , nothing . Is there any thing you could suggest , i could do.Because i out of idea's an it should work , right ? Thanks For Any Help You Or Anyone Can Offer.

Get an xbox, it does this without all the bs. I have both xbox360 and ps3. my ps3 only gets used to play dvd's.

I followed the tutorial and it worked great, turned my ps3 on today and it is not detecting any media server. The settings on my pc seem to be correct and wmp 11 is detecting an unknown device (my ps3, through a wired ethernet connection) but nothing on the ps3. TVersity works for gettings files across but I find TVersity to be prety poor as far as monitoring folders and keeping files up to date, also the reliability is poor as it stops running occasionaly. I know wmp 11 can work great as I was using it on my pc before I upgraded from xp 32 bit to xp 64 bit.

I have the same problem. followed tutorial but laptop running vista still cannot find my ps3. If i turn off my firewall, I will be unable to choose media sharing because it says it wont work without it on. but when i turn it on, it still wont find the damn thing. I do not have an antivirus program installed. File and media sharing is set to ON. Now why the hell is this not working?

I finally got wmp 11 and the ps3 to work together using the above. However and this is a big BUT not all formats work for music I have some mp3, wma that will not work on ps3 through wmp11 but work off a cd. Also if I convert mp3 to wma some of the files that would not play now work but not all? Any ideas?

Did everything above. I have an HP Pavillion w/windows vista home premium, WMP11, Avast antivirus, windows firewall, running wireless. WMP11 recognizes the unknown device but nothing happens. Neither the PS3 or my computer see each other. Pleeeeease HELP ME!!!!!!!!

Just make sure your Antivirus network firewall is turned off (leave the Windows firewall turned on). This is what causes the problem 99% of the time:)

If that doesn't work, don't know what to tell you. Sorry.

Thanks Shibbashabba! I turned off my AVG firewall and enabled windows firewall and instantly a box popped up simultaneously on my ps3 detecting my computer, and on my computer detecting my ps3. Thanks a lot, I tried every other suggestion above and this one worked for me :)

I switched my firewall off and it worked straight away. AT LAST :)

>I used the above steps, and my PS3 is now getting tons of content from my PC. With the exception of >a few formats, such as AVI and Quicktime.

Are you kidding me? Half of what I have are AVI's and I'm trying to figure out how to get them to show up in the WMP. Sure, I can use TVersity, but I also have DRM WMP files that I want to watch on the PS3. I don't want to have to run two different sharing programs, but maybe I'll end up having to.

I followed all the steps and I can now play music and other media on my PS3 without routing my laptop through my TV via a HDMI cable. Thanks so much!

Please edit the original post to mention that both WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) and UPnP (Universal Plug-and-Play) services need to be enabled, and an exception for Windows Media Network Sharing Service needs to be made in the Windows Firewall settings, even if Windows Firewall is disabled (it sets up UPnP for WMP - the exception is supposed to be added automatically by WMP).

I believe this should fix most people's problems of the PS3 not seeing WMP.

Advice for WMP not seeing the PS3 can be found in the first few posts of this page:
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?message.uid=29329912

worked like a charm, thanks!

I have my ps3 finding my server and viewing some of my files but my other two newer playlist show as folders which is right but, shows that there isnt any information available inside them

Actually, I fixed it. Well, should say figured it out. You have to publish folders wanted to be displayed on the server as well as update these server. then the playstation will detect the media you are wanting to use. Email me if you have further questions

How do i keep an external hard drive monitored so they stay there,the internal with movies shows up fine but the external showed up one time all the movies are in my library but cant get them back to show up on the ps3.

awsome tip cause i was about to go back with tversity

I tried everything on here from disabling firewalls to going into service.mcs ( by the way thanks for that now neither the upnp or the wmi will start back up it keeps saying error 1079)

Icecube your the man. worked like a charm. THank you. :)

well what if i do see my compUter name but dont see my files that i have save i open up the folders and it just says "no files found"?

how do you find out if you have all the neccesary codecs for wmp

I have an issue guys. I'm running Windows 7 and WMP11. My PS3 finds my media server, however it does not find the files. It worked once for me before and I haven't changed anything. I'm under the proper Video column on the PS3 and my video library within WMP11 is stacked. I tried searching under "All Folders" or "All Videos" and nothing comes up. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

I can see my media server through my PS3, and can watch movies I have taken on my iphone, but my can't see movies I have downloaded via bit torrent in my ps3. The videos are in my Media library and can be played on my PC. What am I missing?

where is step 3 for pc?

very nice man.. nothing else i googled worked.. this owns.

The allow box doesn't light up for me to click on the unknown device even though the unknown device is right there in the share media to box. I don't get it!

This worked pefectly!!!! Thank you, I appreciate you posting this.