Just recently I decided to move from PC Suite to the new OVI Suite. OVI Suites sports a few features that PC Suite lacks and a hidden one that I recently found out about are the DNLA (UPnP)-based Home Media Server capabilities. This basically comes down to using your UPnP based device, in this case either the N95, N95 8GB, N82, N78, N96 and probably the N85 and N79 to share and control your media among your PC, notebook or other UPnP devices. All of this is wirelessly done via WLAN. Previously Nokia recommended the Home Media Server by SimpleCenter as a separate add-on, but this functionality is now finally fully integrated into OVI Suite. With this added functionality OVI suite with its online services is quickly becoming a very impressive all-in-one solution. In case you don’t have OVI Suite and are still using PC Suite, you could always use the Nokia recommended SimpleCenter software or Windows Media Player 11. To access the feature in OVI suite, go to Tools and select “Home Media Server.” Here you can select the folders you want to share or turn media sharing OFF altogether. The latest version of OVI suite can be downloaded right here.
Weird, I’ve had Ovi Suite installed since the first day it came out, and my version doesn’t have this feature. I’m installing the latest version from the site, to see if maybe there’s a secret update that you’ve stumbled upon.
If so, great find! If not, then weird.
Confirmed, I’ve installed the latest version directly from the site, and mine doesn’t have that feature. When I pull up the About info, this is what I get:
v1.0.417
You got somethin different? Perhaps it’s also because I do not/have not installed Simple Center?
Ricky, I checked and I have the same version as you on a freshly reformatted PC (No simplecenter installed)
I do have it on windows Vista home premium though.
Have you checked for latest updates available for Home Media Server and Nokia OVI Suite ???
The topic is quite curious, i must say
Seems the Media Serve coming together with suite ver 1.1.152 doesn’t work at all. First i could share something but for now not. Folder is shown as shared but it’s not visible in my home netwok. Conclusion is that Media Server shape is crappy.