For developers: WLE2011 Shares Fix

[Omegadrive]

Been 3 days trying to fix the Windows Live Essentials 2011 problem where the Windows Live Sign-In assistance blocks all the shares I have on my PC from my WDTV Live with the "Incorrect Username and Password" error, no luck, had to revert to Windows Live Wave 3 to get rid of the Sign In assistant.

I still want to use WLE2011 so today I found a possible fix, but it can't be done on my side, it has to be an update made by the firmware developers in the Samba code. (I'm no programmer btw, so don't flame me if I'm fishing in the wrong waters )

This is the link for the fix:

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7577

Hope it helps the developers cause I really love my WDTV Live, but also would love to use the new WLE2011.

[RoofingGuy]

It'd take a major undertaking on WD's part... at this point nobody really knows what will happen.

Here's an excellent overview of the problem and what's involved: http://community.wdc.com/t5/Networking/Enable-Network-Shares-on-WD-TV-Live-amp-Windows-7-amp-Vista-3...

[richUK]

This has also been discussed here.

http://community.wdc.com/t5/Networking/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011/td-p/60992

[Omegadrive]

Ah, nice, sorry. didn't noticed there is a separate section for networking issues plus when I did a search nothing came up