Simplest stand alone setup

[yurkot]

Gentlemen thank you so much for quick and useful help, David what I meant by no network is no modem and no internet. I wasn't planning on running music from the laptop (cumbersome) my plan was to load the music onto the NAS and then control the system from the Ipad. Off to buy a Synology air, I guess.
Thanks again
PS Simon I am really looking forward to exploring your Minimserver
Pss David re the bogglement, just lucky, I guess (better to be lucky than smart as evidenced by my lack of knowledge on the computing topic)