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
    2011-06-11T14:21:44+00:00

    I also have an BD570 and I have the following problem:

    When going to the Home Link part of the player I can't see my Windows 7 machine. I can see the media streaming icon, but that I do not want to use. Instead I want to access my shared folders without using the media streaming option. Can anyone help me?

    My LG player and my computer are on the same network of course (else is would not detect my media stream).

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-06-01T22:16:29+00:00

    thanks this worked for me.  Road runner went down one night, and I unplugged my router

    and modem to reset them.  When I turned them back on I didn't realize the setting on port 445

    had changed.  I couldn't log into the LG BD570 after a year of it working fine.  Until then I had been able to log in easily to my LG BD570 by creating

    an additional user account and password with my Windows 7 machine.  So if you

    experience this kind of sudden failure check your firewall settings first.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-05-04T15:31:07+00:00

    Say Helping Out Guy,

    Would you do me a favor, could you tell me what your OS is? Also, see if you have “Windows Live Sign-in Assistant” loaded on your system? The reason I ask is that I’ve found conflicting opinions as to whether this app is required in this situation …Thanks!

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-04-28T23:29:34+00:00

    Your suuggestion saved me.  I had been trying for a couple of hours to figure this out. I even called LG twice and was a total waste of time.  Their support person actually told me that it was not their problem and to install Nero.

    In my case, I had a guest user already set up on my computer but with no password set. After trying multiple times to log in as guest with no password, I finally decided to set up another user ID WITH a password.  Tried that combination and it worked perfectly.  So for anyone who tries this solution, I suggest you be sure to actually create a password for that user.

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