ITunes Library locked - Nas drive

Hello,
Heres my situation
I have an iMac at home and I recently purchased a Synology DS412+ NAS drive.
I have created an iTunes library on the Synlology drive. Everythings been working reletively well. However I am now getting this errorr as soon as I load up iTiunes.
The iTunes Library.itl file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permision for this file.
I got this error after a cold boot after the last thing I did which was to use Terminal to force index on that drive.
jonathans-imac:~ Phoenix$ sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/music
/Volumes/music:
          Indexing enabled.
I have connected to the Synology via the Go, Connect to server command
afp://DiskStation._afpovertcp._tcp.local
Signed in with the login credentials that have full read/write access on the Synology.
Can someone please assist me on what I am doing wrong as this is really ruining my Mac experience and I almost renders the point of my Synology pointless.

All you need to do... if it's not too late... is click on the Synology icon in the upper left hand side of the menu bar (the icon with the four shapes in it).  This will open a dropdown menu.  At the bottom of this menu choose "restart".  This will shut down your Synology NAS and reboot it.  Everything should be fine after the reboot.

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