got a firewall?
ya might have to physically go into it and select an IP range, or the specified device so the firewall will allow it to be seen by the pc.
after that you can try these:
open explorer and look for the NAS drive... find the folder within it which has the music files.
open one of the folders and right click onto it and choose 'open with' and select iTunes... if itunes is the only media player it should be listed and no need to pick open with, and simply pick play in itunes instead.
that should direct itunes to the drive.
if that isn't working... refer to my first note.
you can also connect the folder to your pc as a network folder. Then direct itunes to that now connected folder.
with my xp pro that's what I have to do to get things better... with xp home, I didn't have to. Vista didn't need such added measures as did xp pro... Pro has more security protocols in place. Vista just nags at you all the time until you disable the UAC... and setup defender better.
Also Vista has some out of the box issues at times with wireless connectivity... see my other Vista posts on the fix for that.
it's easy... even I can do it. it's just not terribly intuitive.
ya might have to physically go into it and select an IP range, or the specified device so the firewall will allow it to be seen by the pc.
after that you can try these:
open explorer and look for the NAS drive... find the folder within it which has the music files.
open one of the folders and right click onto it and choose 'open with' and select iTunes... if itunes is the only media player it should be listed and no need to pick open with, and simply pick play in itunes instead.
that should direct itunes to the drive.
if that isn't working... refer to my first note.
you can also connect the folder to your pc as a network folder. Then direct itunes to that now connected folder.
with my xp pro that's what I have to do to get things better... with xp home, I didn't have to. Vista didn't need such added measures as did xp pro... Pro has more security protocols in place. Vista just nags at you all the time until you disable the UAC... and setup defender better.
Also Vista has some out of the box issues at times with wireless connectivity... see my other Vista posts on the fix for that.
it's easy... even I can do it. it's just not terribly intuitive.