Following the recent replacement of my Unitiserve with a new Core my Nas (an old Netgear readynas) has started playing up. I have ordered a replacement from a local computer shop and they are going to transfer my music to the new Nas. I am using a reserved ip address for the Nas and they are aware of this. I am not at all computer savvy and I am getting them round to instal the Nas for me. At £84 an hour I want to keep their time to a minimum. Is there anything I should know in advance? Will my Core automatically recognise the new Nas once it is installed?
@davidhendon. As the Unitiserve/Core expert who has been extremely helpful in the past I would appreciate any advice you might have for me.
If your main music store is on the NAS you may have problems getting the Core to recognise it as such on new hardware. Likewise if it’s a backup. Other than that, if it’s just a network share I can’t see any reason why the Core wouldn’t access the music on it.
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You will have to tell the Core where to look for the NAS, by identifying the relevant folder in the NAS as a Music Share. You do that by going into Manage Music in the setup of the Core in your phone or tablet app. Once you’ve done that, the Core should index the music and display it in the app.
Your IT person should make sure that he/she allows guest access to the NAS and not to complicate things by having a password.
You don’t need to fix the NAS ip address. But it won’t hurt if you do.
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Thanks for your help Chris it’s much appreciated.
Thanks for all of your advice. I’ve taken a screenshot to show the guy at the computer shop.
The only thing that has a static IP address on my network is my nas. When it was set to dynamic I was getting a lot of IP conflicts, with other devices often taking the one normally associated with the nas. The naim app often struggle to Asset as a server. Only way I found to work reliably was to give the nas a static IP.
The best way to do that is to leave the device using DHCP but set the router to give it a particular, reserved, IP. Then it doesn’t matter if someone forgets all about this when the router is changed, maybe years later!
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I think people tend to talk about using fixed IP addresses when what they are actually doing is reserving an address from within the range used by their DHCP server, which is not quite the same thing, but as David suggests, a better and easier option in most cases.
Mine is 192.168.1.191. Pretty specific, not a range. Unless the above is a range.
That is a reserved address from within the range used by your DHCP server, as Chris says!
Ah good. Works for me then! Has stopped Sonus ( and others) taking that address or range of addresses and causing confusion for the nas.
Yes 192.168.1.191 is a single address!
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