My laptop wont function as a remote as it did yesterday and now seems to operate as a second core

[diw (david weightman)]

I think you may be right…it is running happily at the moment set up as yours, no firewall on Mini, firewall on MacBook…I will try the mono-sgen connection when I feel the urge to fiddle with it but many thanks to Mike and Kevin from Roon , and yourself for sorting it out…now I just want to enjoy playing it for a while…