PS3 Media Sharing + ESET Smart security problem, Solution

Play Station 3 provides a facinating way to share the media on your personal computer right on your Television sets.

But due to some settings people are finding it difficult to share the media. This is basically due to firewall problem they are facing. ESET Smart security also provide a personal firewall, which at default settings do not allow to share the media.

If you are getting an error like “DLNA protocol error (2104)” or “DNS error 807101102″

Here’s what you should do, if you have installed ESET Smart Security.

1) Toggle into the advance mode of ESET

2) Under the Setup Tab, select Personal Firewall

3) Select Filtering mode as ‘Interactive filtering’

4) Click on ‘Configure rules and Zones’ – Follow the bellow setting now.

 

Create a new rule, in General Tab make Direction in Both and Action in Allow. Click on the Local Tab

 

Click Browse in the aplication field and the browse for your Windows Media Player 11/12 Folder. Usually in your Program Files. Over there select wmpnetwrk.exe and open it.

 

Now Click on Zone Tab, Select Trusted Zone and click Edit. Add address with the settings mentioned in #13 in the figure. Apply the setting and click OK

Please Note: Its not necessary to open the whole range of the Remote IP address in step 13. If you know your network IP address then add its range. For eg. If your PC or PS3′s IP address is something 192.168.2.***, then your network address is 192.168.2.0 & in this case its advisable to put starting address as 192.168.2.0 and ending address of 192.168.2.255

5) Click on Advanced Personal Firewall setup

Select IDS and advanced option in the Personal Firewall settings. Check ‘Allow UPNP on the Trusted Zone’ and Remove ‘DNS Poisioning attack detection’. Also follow the settings mentioned in 2 and 3

Apply and then restart your Computer.

Now you will be able to Share Media to your PS3 as well as Surf Internet in PS3.

 

 



Console, Playstation 3