How do I know what the CIFS sign is

Anonymous
2010-07-31T18:54:03+00:00

Greetings! I just bought one of those networkable blu ray players... I have access to my portable network drive and thus are able to watch downloaded movies... Could you define  how to log in to my  network ... the bluray player asks for a "cifs sign in" in order to stream from my laptop... In lamen terms... I dont know what would the CIFS siign in name would be... How do I know what it is? I cant figure out what or where it will be...

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Anonymous
2010-08-01T11:49:53+00:00

Hi,

·         Who is the manufacturer of the Blu-ray device?

Common Internet File System (CIFS), a protocol that defines a standard for remote file access using millions of computers at a time. With CIFS, users with different platforms and computers can share files without having to install new software.

I would suggest you to contact the manufacturer of the device for CIFS sign in details, also look for the CIFS information from the user manual.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-09-09T20:34:16+00:00

    yehaaboy ,

      I just bought the lg 590 and can't figure out the cifs sign in either...have you had any luck ? any help would be much appreciated.

    thanks ,

      bryan

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-09-05T01:04:34+00:00

    I am using same LG player and also having the same issue. From what I can tell, this only happens with the C drive, or root drive using windows 7. If there were more drives on the system, the LG player will access them fine not needing the CIFS log in. I have run the windows 7 troubleshooter to no avail. I have used advanced sharing and have gone though all the tutorials to share a file, folder or drive itself, and this worked for any drive on the system but root device.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-08-24T01:56:38+00:00

    I have the same problem.  i will probably screw my pc up trying to figure out what the combination of of sign in and password are. (LG BD570)

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