Hello,

Since today I'm the proud owner of a new Playon HD mini. I'm trying to connect the Playon mini with my iMac for streaming video, music and foto.

Wireless network in the setup section on the Playon mini says: DHCP Not Available! I do have succesfully created a WORKGROUP folder via Browser-->Network-->Shortcuts. So this means my Playon mini is in connection with my iMac. But to my surprise the WORKGROUP-folder is empty. I can not see any folders here. Why?

Please help!

My home network is as follows:

iMac OSX Tiger (10.4.11)
Wireless connected to Airport Extreme
Airport Extreme is connect to Playon mini by network cable


Greetz,

geengeintjez

moved topic to apple tech support

hope anyone is able to give you the right tip here,

Thanks!

best i could do sorry i have no experience with a mac.

Do you really have a network connection? It seems that your mini didn't get an ip-address from the AE. Please check this first. What is the ip-address?


You should not create a WORKGROUP on your mini. Your conclusion: "So this means my Playon mini is in connection with my iMac." is not correct. You should be able to connect to a workgroup, not create it on your mini. That's also the reason why it is empty. (Or I don't understand you correctly).
If there is a workgroup in your network your mini should display it. Sometimes this doesn't work and even though it complicates things a bit, it's not a big disadvantage.

Did you set (windows) sharing on on your Mac via system preferences?
If so, you should be able to create a shortcut from your playon to your mac, by simply putting in the ip-address of your mac and the user-id/password (or guest?) for accessing the share in the shortcut.

I can not see anywhere in the mini that my mini did receive my ip-address. My ip-address is 83.84.192.***


I have created a shortcut. Now there is a folder called WORKGROUP in the shortcuts section. In the folder WORKGROUP there is another folder which has the name of my iMac (which I did not set myself). This folder is empty, or doesn't show any files or folders from my iMac.


I did enable windows-sharing. And I have created a shortcut as explained above.

I feel like I'm very close to get the mini to do want I want it to do (accesing videos etc on my iMac). What should be the 'normal' way to connect the mini with my iMac? Is it by solving the 'DHCP not ready!-problem? Or is it by getting the created shortcut to work properly to accesing my files?

I did it! I have update the firmware and have created a shortcut that works!!

I have created a shortcut on my mini with my iMac accountname and password and the IP-address for windows-sharing specified in the system preferences of my iMac.

Now I can acces all files and folders whoohoo!!