Intranet control of Unitiserve with a Mac

You only seem to need the DTC to set up the backup scheduler and empty the recycle bin. Everything else, such as changing album details and cover art is best done via the nServe app. Make sure you use the Set-IP tool, which you download from the website, to set the IP address, DNS server etc., and then fix the IP address in the router.

Hi do you mean intranet or home LAN? An Intranet is obviously a private inter connected set of networks.. Usually our home LANs are a single subnet or a single network. Technically this means layer 2 discovery type techniques and access techniques that are quite common with consumer network audio applications will work on a single network LAN but not on an intranet, unless you programme extensive 'helpers' on the intranet routers.

So unless you are confident with what you are doing I would aim to keep everything to do with network audio in a single subnet on your LAN.

Simon

The dtc on Windows is a fantastic Tool for using the servers! much much faster than using NServe on apple devices. The only reason people do not know this, is that most Windows users are mousoholics. If people learned to use the keyboard it would make a difference. Of course the DTC lacks most of the meta data and cover art if this is needed.

But to select and  play album songs and internet radio the DTC is one of the best computer based sollutions. Playlists could be easier and there are a few minor irritations I have tried to convince Naim to change in future versions of the dtc.

My understandinng is that the Flash http interface for the servers, and Mac does not support flash as far as I know.

 Claus

No this isn't right -- OS X supports Flash in web browsers just fine.  It's iDevices that don't support Flash (iPad, iPhone, iPod).

I can connect to my uServe using the http://nssrvXXXX address very reliably from web browsers on my Mac.

I absolutely prefer n-Serve on OS X to the DTC on Windows.  I think it's mostly about the interface one is used to -- both OS X vs. Windows as well as DTC vs. n-Serve.

I posted the original question and appreciate everyone's responses.  I have spent more time with the DTC on my PC and the n-Serve app on my MacBook.  I now better understand the two and will probably just use the app since it's easier for me (once I set up the backup schedule with the DTC).  I still am unable to access the HDX using the nssrvXXXX address using my Mac (but it works from the PC).  Perhaps I didn't understand the responses above.  Do I need to load something else on the MacBook to make this work.  Apologies for my level of understanding but would appreciate any help, especially if you could simplify it.  Thanks.

find the ip of the serve, enter this into safari.

Ensure you have flash installed, its no longer installed by default in OSX

Garyi:  that worked.  Seems trivial but everything in the instructions says to just put the NSSRVXXXX address into Safari.  That gets me no where.  But when I put the IP address in Safari it pulls up the HDX with the interface I prefer to use.  Thanks so much!!

Any idea why it doesn't work the other way?

Does it work the other way now that you've connected once?

Maybe someone with good knowledge of how home networks work might know -- but somehow the //nssrvxxxx address has to be translated to an ip address I imagine.  Somehow the DNS in your home system must know it . . . how it knows it I have no idea.

Retried the nssrv way to access the HDX and it still doesn't work, so something about that approach won't work on my MacBook but does on the HP laptop I have.  I suppose others have a Mac and can use the nssrv address so it must be an issue with my MacBook but what the issue is we may not figure out (and it doesn't matter since the IP address was successful).  Thanks again.  I will continue to use this forum as I better learn the finer points of my Unitiserve.