Back from holidays, what a bummer

Maybe just reboot the NAS? Maybe the UPNP service on the NAS needs to be started? Maybe the NAS is just updating the UPNP index is being updated and all will be OK in a few hours. Maybe reboot the naim device? 

And if I just wait, will it fix itself?

Thanks Paul, your reply crossed mine. I seem to remember that maybe it fixed itself at least once in the past so I will try the 'wait and see strategy' for now.

Will revert tomorrow.

D

The really easy thing to do is to shut it all down, re-boot the nas, when it's up and running re-boot the UServe.

If Bart's suggestion fails hitting CTRL+ALT+DEL twice always seems to work for me .

Unitiserve does not use UPNP for music discovery, guys you should be aware of this as you will land up frustrating yourself for ever.

Unitiserve/HDX/NS01/NS02 use SMB protocols to discover music throughout your network. Your nas will indeed run SMB, if its no longer available I would restarting the router and the serve as well as the NAS.

I've tried y and rebooting both the NAS and the US. My problem is that DTC  is reporting the NAS as 'offline', when it is actually 'online'. I know that people have had this type of problem before but when I researched older threads I couldn't get an exact match. How to I provoke the US t see the NAS as online?

Switch everything off and restart the hub first. Let it boot up and settle. Then go on to the NAS, let it start up and settle, etc. If that doesn't do it (try three times) it might be that something has changed its IP.

I've tried all this, with no success. The US seems just to be ignoring the NAS. I will email Phil Harris tomorrow.

Yeah. Phil will fix it, if it can be.

David,

Is your NAS a Synology ....or might it have done an OS update while you were away?

In the case of the Synology you can refer to Phil's pinned thread; in my case I had to reset my NAS permissions to allow my NS01 to see the relevant shares.

M

The NAS is a Qnap so the Synology matter doesn't apply, but.........the US has now decided, unaccountably, to recognise it as before. Problem solved, but may happen again?

Thanks to all who contributed.

David

I had a similar situation a few days back. Power had been Down so the nas a Readynas did not start Again when the power came back. After a day or so I wanted to play music from the nas so I started it. The nas was online, and the dtc could see the share with my music, but it was not active. Clicking the active button solved the issue.

Claus

The reality is windows and linux is involved usually in these relationships and ultimately they are computers. Its not always possible to understand what went wrong and they have a habit of fixing themselves which is equally frustrating. But hey it works now, relax, enjoy.

You're right Gayri but we could do without the randomness!!

Claus, if I could have clicked an 'active button', I would have, but there wasn't one!!

The web interface is the easiest to understand, if its red its inactive but 'known' if it does not show up at all then thats a whole other thing.