Windows 7 Share inaccessible from non-windows or old media player (PBO, PlayOn, ACRyan)

recently my windows 7 PC got the update and suddenly my media player unable to access video files stored in my PC, turned out now windows 7 is too secure for non-microsoft media player, or any old media player.

here is the remedy, change the windows 7 registry to allow old style authentication from other device.

open Regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE  (HKLM)

• in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa, create LmCompatibilityLevel = dword "1", and change NoLmHash from "0" to "1"
• in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft create key Netlogon
• in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Netlogon create key Paramaters
• in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Netlogon\Paramaters create AllowNT4Crypto = dword "1"
• in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Paramaters create AllowNT4Crypto = dword "1"
• make sure in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\Paramaters requiresecuritysignature already set to dword "0"

restart a PC, now window share is accessible again from old media player.

my media player is PBO from patriot, and run PlayonHD firmware from AC Ryan.

Driver for Tiny USB wifi dongle, RTL8188BEV or RTL8188CUS

just want to share the link, here is the driver for Linux, Windows XP up to 8 and Mac OSX, looking the right ones was pain in the butt.

http://www.infoanda.com/resources/RTL8188EU_RTL8188BEV.rar

and here is the dongle that I got it from ebay.