ITunes shared library on Buffalo Linkstation NAS

Hi all
I've recently put in a Buffalo NAS, which has an onboard media server. iTunes can see it fine and to begin with, it worked superbly.
After making a couple of network changes this weekend (put a fixed IP on one of the computers and moved all my music folders around on the NAS...), iTunes can still see the contents of the shared library but can't play anything from it. Exclamation points all over the place.
I've tried renaming the NAS and mapping it to a different network drive letter in the hope that iTunes would be fooled but it isn't. Anyone have any ideas?
I'd also mention that the situation is the same for all the computers on the network, including the ones that have iTunes installed but no local library.
Help very much appreciated!

thanks, i've only just installed and copied the files over so this would seem not to apply.
I checked on my son's PC and looked at the shared library from my MAC and I can see all content, i think this is a Buffalo DNLA server issue.

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