Trouble with iTunes shared servers on NAS drives

I don't know if this will help anyone but I had another experience.

I'm using an LG N2A2, but this wasn't so much related to the model I don't think. I copied all my photo's off my laptop into the default multimedia folder on the NAS drive, something like 240,000 photo's taken over the last 5 or 6 years.

iTunes and in fact DLNA basically went out to lunch, I think there were too many files for the DLNA service to index, and it got stuck, and the result was I had no music. The list of media was just empty.

I created a seperate share, moved the photo's and re-built the DLNA index, and my music came back.

As I say, not sure if this will help, but for people that have maybe tried everything else, it's a shot in the dark.

There is also in the dns 320 a problem (D-Link called it a safety) when you create music folder with al your music for example 40Gig, the nas will block you have to put max of 5Gig in the folder da nrefresh, then another 5Gig until all your music is in the folder en refreshed in parts

my DLNA-Server works very well, but not the iTunes-Server...I don't know I cannot even see it in iTunes on my Mac....there's simply no trace of it.....can I force iTunes somehow to connect to it? I just put some mp3- and aac-files into the folder like 200 MB so to much Data is not the case either.

Hey I didn't do anything special with it. I turned on the itunes server and then dumped the files into there (just a few to test it) and it seems to be working ok. Sorry I can't help you more

Alan

Itunes could not see my Dlink DNS-323 NAS. It does when I use ethernet cable to my router. But on wirless, the NAS will disappear from itunes. I was trying to solve frequent home sharing dropouts on the new apple tv and I changed a router. The new one is Aztech. Once I do that not only does home sharing stop dropping, and to my surprise itunes begin to see my NAS again and it is working well.

I am using the latest version of itunes. I suspect the way Apple's hardware and software works together is too fragile and dependent on the user's home network. It needs to be more robust, as it created many problems for many people.

Hi,I have the same problem, an external drive connected to the network with the service enabled DLNA, iTunes displays the name of the shared drive but not the content (147GB, 30,000 files) The drive is an Iomega Home Media Network Driver, version of iTunes is 10.6.1.7. I appreciate any hint to solve the problem.

ITunes on WD Network storage works bearley can store music and thats it nothing else works.

Thank you for this, with this I got my DNS -320 and iTunes cooperating for the 1st time.

Agreed, the beta version of the DNS-320 firmware linked to above and the newest version of iTunes works wirelessly now for me. However, is sharing the album artwork as well not an option? When I access my server storage, the view style sets to a plain list (no art) and the view type selector in the top right gets grayed out.

You can only get a list i guess, like a play list, the itunes server doesn't sort by album neither

I don't know if you ever resolved the issue, but it sounds to me like it could be Windows Firewall (or 3rd party firewall) issue. When you switch from a wired ethernet connection to wifi, you are using a different network adapter on the PC, and Windows Firewall or 3rd party firewall can have different firewall policy on each interface.

Check to verify that the firewall permissions for your wired Ethernet adapter (which works to access your NAS) are the same as those on your wireless network interface.

Also, with Windows 7 you can define network connections as Public, Home, etc. Public normally has a locked down firewall, whereas Home is more open, to allow Windows Networking to communicate among the PCs on the local LAN.

-rb

Hello RBNetEngr, thank you very much for your answer.
I tell you that after much searching on the Internet, trying many solutions in my notebook, I managed to fix the problem.
The NAS (Iomega Home Media Network Drive), contains several folders with the iTunes service enabled. To solve the problem Turn off iTunes service in all folders and turn it on again only one, containing mp3 files. After that I could access the shared content through iTunes and play music.
The firewall and antivirus are turned in the notebook.
I share the solution in case anyone else happens something similar.
Have a nice day.
Greetings.

Marcelo Casella

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