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Old Apr 8, 2008, 04:12 PM   #1
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Windows Media Player: Cannot Connect To Server

Hello again...

Some good friends of mine are having trouble streaming songs from my website. I know the problem does not stem from my end...because everyone else I know has no trouble at all w/ my music files. They simply go to my site, click on a song link; & the song streams & plays perfectly.

Anyway...when they attempt to do the same...the message my friends are getting on their PC reads:

>>Windows Media Player cannot connect to the server. The server name may not be correct, the server may not be available, or your proxy settings might not be correct.<<

Since I've ruled out the first two fixes, I followed the instructions in the WMP help files on fixing the proxy settings...(which is essentially to set those settings to 'Autodetect')...but that doesn't work either.

Anyone have any ideas, here?

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Old Apr 8, 2008, 06:08 PM   #2
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Windows firewall might be blocking the connection.
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Old Apr 9, 2008, 03:32 PM Threadstarter Thread Starter   #3
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Firewall...that's interesting...never thought of that.

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