Re: iTunes Accessing NAS?
 

dont map the drive and just have a short cut to it using \\robmnas\share or something..
mapped drives are old hat these days :)
you could always try mapping it to another drive letter and see what happens.

Re: iTunes Accessing NAS?
 

Could do that, but the shares on the drive are ptotected by username/password combinations. The drives are mapped at boot (once the network adaptors are up and ok) by a script that maps the NAS to a given set of drive letter allocations, supplying usernames and passwords as it goes.

Re: iTunes Accessing NAS?
 

fair enough.

with the nas in standbye and mapped what happens if you add the same songs to say..winamp or windows media player?

Re: iTunes Accessing NAS?
 

Nothing, I can open Winamp/Media Player/VLC/Media Player Classic or any other media player that I choose and it doesn't touch the NAS.

This must be something specific to iTunes.

I think I'll see if I can find an Apple support forum and ask if anybody else has come across it.

I think I've only noticed it because I allow the NAS to drop into standby mode, rather than leaving it powered on all the time.

Thanks for the help :tu:

Re: iTunes Accessing NAS?
 

what fun!

Re: iTunes Accessing NAS?
 

Is the Bonjour service running? Bonjour is Apple's non-compatible equivalent of UPnP, and is used by iTunes to look for any wireless devices it can access, or for other iTunes libraries.

Re: iTunes Accessing NAS?
 

Nope, set to manual and stopped.

Re: iTunes Accessing NAS?
 

Bang goes my suggestion that maybe the nas firmware had Firefly (formally mt-daapd) then.

even if it did with bonjour disabled Itunes shouldn't find it anyway (or at least thats what i understand to be the case, may be wrong)