I spent some time today trying to figure out how to hook up my XBox 360 with my new and shiny Windows Vista. I am sure that many other people will bump into the same problem. So to make long story short, I have a XBox 360, which used to be connected to my Windows XP Media Center. However, I've recently upgraded to Windows Vista Ultimate and thus I had to made a transition. So at first, my XBox wasn't able to look up any Media Center PC in the network. I though it could be related to some security settings on my PC, tweaked this and that for a while, but still no result. Then as all developers do when they cannot solve something right away (without reading manuals :)), I searched the Net. I found this article, which turned out to be the one-stop-shop for what I was trying to do:
Enjoy Windows Media Center on your Xbox 360, with your Music, Pictures, Live and Recorded TV*, and Online Media (link)
So the important part of this article was that I have to "disconnect" my XBox 360 from any previous PC partnerships. Another thing that I took care of was really related to security and Windows Firewall in Vista. This matter is explained in detail in the following article:
Troubleshoot problems with a Windows Media Center Extender device (link)
However, to be honest, when you add the new XBox extender to your new Windows Vista Media Center, one of the steps in the setup process will ask you whether you want to open these ports on the Firewall so pay special attention to it.
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