NAS Drives and Lion

I'm reading a lot of reports that NAS drives other that TimeCapsule will no longer work with Lion due to the deletion of a certain Standard. I do not pretend to understand this, other than to be fairly certain that my WD drive attached to an eternet port on my router will no longer work as a TimeMachine disc.
I can live with this and get a new disc to attach by USB for TimeMachine purposes. (messy wires, but what can you do), But was wondering if I would still be a ble to use the NAS for everyday storage and local and remote shared access.
No hurry because it sounds as though there is a lot of other stuff (including a new copy of Office for Mac) which I need to get sorted before I can even consider upgrading to Lion.
Cheers,
David.

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I want to relocate my iTunes library on a NAS drive and stream to apple tv2 and DLNA tbs around the house is this possible and if so which is the best NAS drive to buy???

ged2001 wrote:
I want to relocate my iTunes library on a NAS drive and stream to apple tv2 and DLNA TV's around the house is this possible and if so which is the best NAS drive to buy???
i don't have any experience with DLNA TV's but i recently moved my iTunes library to a NAS. streaming content to airport express remote speakers and TV2 works great. however, i have all my gear hardwired to my time capsule (except the airport express) so i'm not sure how well streaming e.g. HD movies to TV over wifi works.
i have a Synology DiskStation 411j and am very happy with it.

NAS Drives and Apple TV and networking

Hello, first post on here so sorry if it is a bit disjointed!!!
Trying to be as brief as possible, I am running an imac with a time machine backup drive attached and a macbook. Both connect via wifi to the internet through my speedtouch 585 i router (Cytanet provided)
I need more storage because my photo library is currently running at 280GB
My thinking is that if i get a 4TB NAS drive and connect it to my router, i can access the drive from both computers and use it as a backup for my content. trouble is, if i set up the macs to the home network using the built in airport then will i lose the internet?
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I don't fully understand why you think you will lose access to the internet by adding a NAS drive to your network.
You should be able to add the NAS, and the tv without losing your internet connection. Your macs should be able to see the NAS and use it for storage and back up, you should have no problem using it for your iphoto/itunes content and the tv should be able to use that content through itunes.
Network drives are unfortunately quite slow in comparison to external drives but in most scenarios should do the job.
Your connection to the internet may well be something like 8 - 16 Mbps, the NAS interface may allow speeds of around 20 Mbps, the tv requires around 5 Mbps but will operate up to about 14 Mbps. Your LAN is likely capable of much higher speeds and you shouldn't really have too much trouble using everything together.

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Hi,
I really need some help, and even though I know the information is already on the web, I just need someone to tell me what to do in my circumstance.
I have a new Macbook with 250GB hard drive which is now almost full! I have an Apple TV box which is also almost full. I have a 320GB Iomega NAS which is not almost full as I haven't really used it properly and I have just got a 1TB Time Capsule as I'm petrified of losing everything!
I have just over 175GB of music and films/tv programmes. I have also just finished making sure all the album artwork is correct (I know - very sad!).
Currently the entire library is on my Macbook. I backed it up to the NAS drive (although I did it via a USB connection rather than over my home network).
With only about 23GB of space left on my Macbook I decided the time was right to use the NAS properly. (I only really want to use the Time Capsule as a back up, although I guess there is probably a problem there as well if I move everything of importance (i.e. the music and films) to the NAS but lets leave that one for the time being.
Basically what I want to know is how to use itunes with the NAS so that the music and films etc are stored on the NAS but not the rest of the information (the itunes database and album art folders).
I tried it before and it kind of worked but the first time it update the library file and having just sorted out all the album artwork I don't want to have to do it again.
I should say that I am the only one in the house who uses itunes, my laptop, am the only one with an ipod and iphone, so there is no issue with someone sharing the library or anything like that.
So, question 1 - how do I set up itunes to work with the NAS.
Question 2 - in doing so, will I have to correct all the artwork again?
Question 3 - if all the music etc is on the NAS, how do I back it up to the Time Capsule?
A more complicated question is can I keep the music on my laptop and films/tv programmes on the NAS?
Will all of this make the Apple TV box stop working?
Finally, I have already found an apple script which automounts the NAS and then starts itunes as I have read that that can cause a problem.
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Anthony

There isn't a solution, the Apple TV will only read your iTunes library if iTunes is running and will only play content through iTunes.

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harlan james wrote:
Since trying to do the Lion update on Weds my iMac has been playing up, basically when i going into disk utility and run "verify disk" i get error messages telling me to insert my OS X install cd so that i can repair the hard drive,
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On 02/04/2014 01:46, dschaldenovell wrote:
> I was thinking about getting a NAS Drive, but I was wondering if anyone
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Please can someone help me as this is massively frustrating.
OK, so I have 2 computers (A desktop and a laptop).
Originally my iTunes library was on my desktop but it was getting to big so I bought a NAS. Following the instructions you provided elsewhere I and moved my 20,000 songs / artwork / playlists etc successfully to the NAS, I changed my library in Edit > Preferences > Advanced to L:\Music\Music. When I go onto iTunes from my Desktop everything is from the NAS is displayed in Library > Music and works perfectly.
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Having searched through the forums here and using Google to cast a wider net.
I am still struggling to see if there is a solution to the missing artwork of TV programmes or films missing when stored on a NAS drive. All the TV programmes and movies have been purchased through the iTunes store.
The version of iTunes being used is the most recent (10.6.1).
The network drive is hardwired linked to the AirPort Extreme Base Station, this base station is also hardwire linked to the iMac. The iTunes library resides upon a DROBO FS and has done since it filled the storage capabilities of the iMac.
TV and Films purchased before the migration of the library has the artwork, it is just films and programmes purchased since the migration that don't.
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