Is your PC on the same LAN as the Slingbox (behind the same router)? I think it needs to be in order to do the network settings.

Carl

Chuck if you have not sent it back you may want to try this.

Add the following line in the SBCORE.INI file section [Main]: 

[Main]

EnableIPSetup=1

That should allow you to set network settings manually. In very rare occurences we are seeing, that the logic behind where we think it should be automatically configured is not working and thus we are not presenting manual settings. We are looking to fix this in the next release.

chuckg said: No dice... added that line but network settings still greyed out.

For whatever reason the box thinks you are connected over a WAN , not LAN.
Support might be correct and you have a bad box.

I am not saying you didn't  check this or have your setup wrong, but this is what I would do to confirm.

1. Make sure Slingbox is plugged into LAN, not WAN port
2. Setup the router to the factory IP setting, I believe it's 192.168.0.1 for D-Link, using a funky address for router may cause you a problem.
3. Plug in any computers, etc, that you may have into your router and make sure they work.
4. Create a Static address for your Slingbox, in your router, Use MAC address on bottom of Slingbox.
5. plug in Slingbox, connect to router.
6. reset Slngbox while plugged in. Using reset button.
   
7. Ping Slingbox address from computer.
   
8. If responds to Ping then try and connect to it, using slingplayer, and see if get network connection settings.
9. If get network setting you can setup port forwarding manually in router. if not send it back.
   
   Don't know if this will help or fix it, just what I would do to test.
   
   

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I think I know the solution :)  I set up my Pro from my desktop PC on my LAN.  Network selection was never grayed out and always available.  After initial setup, I installed Slingplayer on my laptop (also on the same LAN).  Network settings was always greyed out on my laptop.  I never cared because I could change things from my desktop.

After seeing tjhis post I decided to look into it.  One difference I noticed is on the connections tab (after you select edit from the Sligbox directory window) my desktop had a password (dots) in the Login section whereas my laptop had nothing there.  Sure enough, once I typed in my ADMIN password into the login section of my laptops conenction tab, the network settings is no longer greyed out.  I do not have the "Log in as admin" box checked.

I am not sure if the password took effect immediately after I typed it.  I hit ok, then hit closed, closed Slingplayer and reopened it.  That made my previously greyed out network setting available :)

That is strange cause it worked for me. Mine was greyed out on my laptop and now it is not. When I first entered my admin password into my laptop connection setup window (which is different than my user password) I did also check the "log in as admin" box, hit ok, close etc, restarted the Slingplayer and network setings was now no longer greyed out. I went back and unchecked the box and network settings remained available. I am using Slingplayer version 1.4.0.195.

That is quite odd that it worked for me but not you.

 OK I see what you mean about the checkbox.  With it unchecked I could click on the change network settings, but it still asked for my admin password (better than it being greyed out though).  With the box checked it went right to the network settind wizzard when I clicked on change.

I get the same error from a basic/standard slingbox model but when trying to access across the internet. It works fine on the lan. I'm also using dlink router with dmz setting turned on and ports open etc. Everything appears as it should but when it says "starting to stream" it stops with the dreaded 0x93200005.

This slingbox was recently moved from being connect to cable box to straight basic cable in a different house. It worked fine at the other location with different combination of cable provider and router.

 Any advice.

Tom

Yep, i reset it and ran the wizard already like you have asked. As mentioned, it works fine from within the LAN but not from WAN. I suspect my uplink on my internet might not be fast enough. How can this be tested or other ideas?

In the player if I put in the local IP address for direct connect of the slingbox the network settings is greyed out so I can't enable remote viewing. If however I uncheck the box, i first need to restart the player, then the network settings are no longer greyed out. However, when clicking on the network settings it tries to connect to slingbox but fails so I'm never able to get to the control options within network settings.

Its a catch 22 a does not seem to work for both internal and external viewing.

I am absolutely positive as I have set it many times and checked many times and I know the firewall is open. In fact I set it as a "DMZ server" in DLink to expose so it automatically configured the firewall and I checked the settings and it did it correctly. The problem is I can not get to the network settings to turn on external viewing.

You do have to be on your home network to change the Slingbox network setttings.