Remote player (WMP) sees UMS on network, but no media content

[StephanL]

Hello all,
I am basically a media streaming noob, though I've done a lot with PCs and know some network details.
I have installed UMS on a IOMega storcenter 250D (2G ram, 3* 250G HD, 3.2GHz Celeron) with WIN 8.1 as the OS.
Nothing much is going on with this machine as i intend on using it as my media server exclusively.
I have music files on one drive, video files on another. i have added those drives in UMS as shared folders.
I start up windows media player on another machine, and the UMS installation shows up as a media server.
When I click to see content, nothing shows up.
Any ideas as to what could be causing this?

[valib]

The support of windows media player is tricky. Mostly it doesn't work. Try any other program which supports DLNA like XBMC/Kodi.

[Wolfgan]

If you're in a full Windows environment, I suggest you map your media drives, and switch to a better player like http://mpc-hc.org/ supporting a wider range of containers and codecs than WMP.
UMS excels when you need DLNA support and tweaks for streaming boxes & smart TVs, in a full windows environment you'll be better of just moving out of WMP.

[StephanL]

Thanks for the advise. Will report what i find.