Minimserver not visible and transcoding/playback "on the fly" for Naim Unitiserve-SSD

[Stannas]

Hi Simon

Can you think of a reason why, although I can connect to mapped shared networked drives containing my music (on my QNAP NAS) that I can see in Windows Explorer, the NAS itself does not always appear on the left side menu, under Network (only my PC does so consistently) please? Also, and it may have nothing to do with this, the NAS is the only unnamed device in my router, but it is called STEPHEN-NAS1 in Windows? This morning, I also have an error message for DNS within the NAS asking me to check TCP, but this is the first time I've seen this and I can connect to the shares. My Unitiserve is not finding all the shares automatically when scanning either and Naim unhelpfully just blames the network, which means the NAS really (I've already changed the Virgin router three times and there is no evidence of a problem with this). Minimserver does not seem to want to connect to the shares either if I have followed your instructions properly, so I would have to save music for my experiment onto my laptop.

I would really appreciate some pointers on what is probably going on-SMB is used to communicate between the NAS and the Unitiserve and has just been re-installed. This is above my level of knowledge, but I cannot see anything wrong with the NAS network configuration. I am spending far more time on network problems than listening to any music! Built-in storage seems a much better idea based on these experiences?

Kind regards

Stephen