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Hello.
I have two Pi's both running openelec and both have Samba enabled but they will not show up on my home network on my windows 7 pc.some advice please.
regards
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Do you mean they don't show up automatically when you click 'network'?
Or that you can't access them via IP address, eg \\192.168.1.xx in the address bar?
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if they don't show up by default, make sure they use the same name for the SMB workgroup as your Win7 PC
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Mine have never shown up on any windows machine by default even with the same workgroup - I just stick shortcuts in the explorer 'Favorites' menu to each pi.
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It sounds like there's no WINS server on your network. I set an old Pi1 up on mine as one (part of the samba setup) and it makes everything appear fine on my network as it should.
