UPnP Service in Windows 2000?? MS says it is not supported?

[silentbobby]

I have installed Beyond TV 4.0 on a Win2K box.

I just installed Beyond TV Link on another LAN (WINXP) computer and it says it can't find any servers.

I read through your troublehooting:
http://kb.snapstream.com/?kbid=281&p...cyAyMDAw&p_li=

3)If that does not solve the problem, please check to ensure that the UPNP and SSDP services are running on both computers. To do so, right-click "My Computer" and select "Manage." Expand the "Services and Applications" item in the leftmost pane, and select "Services." Check to see that the "SSDP Discovery Service" and "Universal Plug and Play Device Host" services read "Started" in the "Status" column.
If the services are not started, right click on each, and select TASKS --> START. To ensure that these services are running the next time you need them, right-click on each service, select "Properties," and set "Startup Type" to either "Manual" or "Automatic." Then, reboot the system and try to connect via Link again.

I am having problems with this since MS says it does not support UPnP for Win2K, but you are selling both Beyond TV and Beyond TV Link - and both of the programs system requirements allow for Windows 2000????

How is this possible?

[weezer1024]

You can try connecting directly rather than using UPnP. (I actually tried searching for this in the BTV Link help docs. I find it incredibly suprising that it's not in there.) This might work, from what I've gathered from other posts.

"C:\Program Files\SnapStream Media\Beyond TV Link\BTVD3DShell.exe" /networkclient:<your btv server IP address>

[silentbobby]

That works like a champ! Thanks for the post! We should see about appending this one to include your input:

http://kb.snapstream.com/?kbid=281&p...PXVwbnA*&p_li=

Thanks again! This should keep me busy for a bit.

silentbobby

[merrypig]

Just as another point; I run btv 4.0 on my win2k box. I can find the server just fine without any fancy tricks or having to specify the ip address. However, I did have to add an exception to my trend firewall that I run on my client. In order for the server to respond to the SSDP query you need to open the firewall so btv can send data back. Since it comes as a seperate transaction it has the SYN bit set indicating an externally initiated packet - that most firewalls block.