Itunes problems with NAS

Hi all,
I got a new NAS last week to store my whole music collection on it. It works fine with the Windows Explorer but as soon as I want to add folders in itunes to my library it only reads a couple of folders and skips the others. This works fine with Windows Media Player but also fails with Winamp. If I add one of the skipped folders directly it gets added - any hint what do do? Does itunes use any special os calls to read the folders?
tnx
Peter
  Windows XP  
  Windows XP  

looks like I know what the problem is - the LanDrive, which has a Samba Server embedded does not handle file extensions as they are common on windows that well. So when you do "dir *.mp3" /s on the share you don't get any files back - can imagine that this was the issue. For now I did write a small application using the itunes COM interface to add my folders (pretty easy to do in .NET and hope they will have a bugfix soon...
Peter
  Windows XP  

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