NAS going barmy

I have noticed, too, that when my UnitiServe is on the network, the nas that has a Share on it never goes to sleep.  If I shut down the uServe, it will go to sleep.  This would be a good topic for Phil Harris to maybe weigh in on.

It has come up before, and I think that some uServe owners reported a different result (that their nas did go to sleep).

No idea if this is related not, but my first Unitiserve HDD was silent for a couple of weeks, then suddenly started to make a whirring sound which I assume was the internal hard drive spinning. From that moment on, it never shut up, and it was too loud to put in the listening room so I had to put it elsewhere. I queried it with my dealer, who said it was within acceptable limits: with hindsight, I should have pressed them further on this, as it was mildly irritating, and I'm not convinced that it was unavoidable.

Fortunately (?) the offending US was destroyed by lightning, and the replacement is totally silent at all times except when ripping. 

I was speculating that the (unknown) cause may be the same in both our cases - despite the fact that your NAS is external, and mine was built into the US, maybe they were both being told to keep on whirring away by the US?

The software searches for new files either on the shares visible used for downloaded files and also in any directories called music or as I understand it if the name of the directory contains music as part of the name. The simple check is to tell the server only to

If you are using the dtc go to the  tools tab.  Under music repositories scannable network shares. Here you can see a list of all the pc shares the server can see. If a share is online you can see if it is searched automatically. and use the button named "set scan type" and try manual instead of automatic.
The only drawback with this setting is that you have to rescan the share each time you add new files to it, and the  files will not show up instantly like they do when automatic is used.
   Claus