iTunes Share takes *ages* to be seen!

[fox]

To save power I have my 4100+ switch off overnight. When it powers on in the morning I notice that it usually takes the best part of 4 or 5 (sometimes more) hours for my iTunes to see the Shared iTunes server in the 4100+ everything else is fine. This is a very low traffic home network with the Thecus connected to a Linksys Wireless router.

This is starting to get annoying as I usually have to go into the Server and manually reboot it several times or change the DHCP settings several times in order to get the share seen. I can of course see all my network drives and log in as usual and all of the othert Macs on the network can see each other's shared iTunes, (and the 4100's /Music/ folder as well as its /Videos/ and /Photos/ SMBs etc) -- but not the Thecus box's iTunes server!

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

[fox]

In the meantime I installed the open source FireFly Server for the 4100+ made available by (the amazing) getmythe and this really kicks the Mediabolics server into the weeds. On the Fly Transcoding of FLACs and OGGs its there on within seconds of the NAS box coming online -- will work with online devices like a Roku Soundbridge and I didn't have to change iTunes databases for it to recognise it, just pointed Firefly to /MUSIC/ and its fine.



This and the SSH, NFS modules and the much better FTPAccess has saved me packing the Thecus Box up and sending in back to my retailer for a refund.

Even the built-in BitTorrect client resolutely sits there like a lemon doing nothing for days so I have high hopes for the MLDonkey-module working when it becomes available.