Streaming to media PC

[Famous Mortimer]

First up, sorry for having a Windows PC , but I needed something to play blu-rays on that didn't cost the earth. Anyway, on to the request.

I have an iMac which is the central computer for the house, everything streams from it. I had to get my ISP to give me some tech support yesterday, which involved them taking it over remotely for a moment.

Anyway, afterwards, I went downstairs to the media PC and nothing was streaming any more. I tried a few things and nothing worked, then I checked online and saw a program called SMBUp. So I tried that, and it seemed to make things worse - now, the iMac wasn't showing up on the Network section of Windows Explorer at all and things still weren't sharing.

So, is there a solution to this? I'm okay with the command line but not great, and if I have to I don't mind doing a complete reset of the Mac (there's not a lot on it).

 

[Lifeisabeach]

Open up:
System Preferences > Sharing
What do you have enabled? Specifically, you should have File Sharing enabled, with a list of shared folders on the right that you want your media PC to have access to. Under Options, you should also be sharing using SMB rather than AFP.

 

[Famous Mortimer]

Thanks for the tip - here's a bit more information.

It's an iMac with a 3.06Hz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, running 10.7.5.

File sharing is enabled, but it's just not showing up on the Windows list of network devices.

I'm completely drawing a blank as to what the problem might be.

 

[Lifeisabeach]

Did they do anything to your router?

 

[Famous Mortimer]

They changed one setting, to do with the radio.

Anyway, I followed the instructions on this old Lifehacker page - How to access a Mac's files on your PC - and can see the **** files on my PC! But I don't particularly want to have to mess with that every single time I want to use the media PC (and it renders XBMC next to useless).

I appreciate the help (again) but boy, is this confusing.

Oh, there's an old instance of EyeConnect running too (according to every other PC in the house) but I can't find any files to delete or any way of uninstalling it.