"Add folder" or "Add network folder"

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My music is stored on a network - NAS. I can access the NAS by going to “Add folder” and navigating to it there in finder. If I go to “Add network folder”, I have to type is some network address that I don’t know. Can I just use the first option?

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what operating system are you on?

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I’m on OS X 10.10.3.

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Hey @extracampine, if your NAS is mounted as a Volume then yes, you can do the first option, but I’m a little worried that your NAS is mounted as AFP, not SMB which Roon requires. So try this:

Since you don’t know the IP address of your NAS, you need to scan your network. Go download WakeOnLan for OS X here. After you download and open the app, it will ask if you want to scan your network, click Yes, and a few moments later you’ll have a list of devices on your network with their associated IP addresses, and you should see your NAS on that list.

Then, mount your NAS like this:

  1. Remove the NAS watched folder in Roon
  2. Unmount your NAS drive (click the eject button in Finder)
  3. Open Finder and press cmd-k on your keyboard
  4. Type the address of the NAS as   smb://ip address of your nas
  5. Connect and mount the volumes you want
  6. Re-add the NAS as a watched folder in Roon like this   smb://ip address of your nas/Music Library

Let me know if you need any more help!

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Thanks - it was AFP, and I have changed it to SMB. And - does it make any difference whether I add network files via the first or the second option?

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I just restarted my Mac, and noticed that it automatically reconnected to my NAS as AFP again!

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Do you have the AFP mount in your login items how to remove login items

Russ

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I did indeed, thanks. I removed that and have now mounted as SMB.