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Folder Arrangement Issues.
Hi all, I am very new to this but my issue is I run two x Western Digital (2tb) in a ReadyNAS NV+ which is running RAID1. Strange as I selected flexible RAID0 but oh well, it can be reformatte...
Generally the media players have their own communities. Connecting the dots between a specific NAS and the player can be a bit a problem sometimes.
With WD in particular:
-If you select "video" on the menu, by default you see "media servers". If you use the up/down buttons on the remote, you can select "network shares" or internal/USB folders.
-"Media Servers" is DLNA, "Network shares" is CIFS, my WD system doesn't do NFS.
-Under "settings" you will see a "file management" option, which lets you select the NAS, enter username/password if you wish, and control which folders you want to see on the WD.
File permissions are often an issue with CIFS, if you are seeing empty folders on the WD, you might want to go into the "advanced" menu for the share (on the NAS), and reset all the file permissions and owners.
I don't have a Playstation; I know it supports DLNA, but I don't know about any alternatives there.
With WD in particular:
-If you select "video" on the menu, by default you see "media servers". If you use the up/down buttons on the remote, you can select "network shares" or internal/USB folders.
-"Media Servers" is DLNA, "Network shares" is CIFS, my WD system doesn't do NFS.
-Under "settings" you will see a "file management" option, which lets you select the NAS, enter username/password if you wish, and control which folders you want to see on the WD.
File permissions are often an issue with CIFS, if you are seeing empty folders on the WD, you might want to go into the "advanced" menu for the share (on the NAS), and reset all the file permissions and owners.
I don't have a Playstation; I know it supports DLNA, but I don't know about any alternatives there.
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