iTunes can't find Network Storage

Also, if your NAS is assigned an ip address by a dhcp server in your router or whatever (as opposed to having been manually assigned a static ip address), it could now be assigned a different address than it previously had, as a result of the new computer being on the network.

Regards,
-- Al

I think Al hit on the most important problems. CHECK those first. How many computers do you have on your network? Can any other computer access the nas if you have more than 1? Another thing to try is disconnecting all other computers and running a 'ping' on the 192.168.1.8 address. If you don't know how to do that click on the Start button - go to run - click it and type cmd - then hit enter. That should bring up a black box. Then you would type ping 192.168.1.8 - hit enter and see if you get a reply. If so that should be the right address. If you get a timeout then that is not the right address. Try different addresses then.

In addition to the other suggestions, also check to see that you have a common "workgroup" name for the computers and that the computers are in the same IP address group. (You don't want one computer with 192.168.1.8 and another with a 192.168.0.* address, for example.)

got a firewall?

ya might have to physically go into it and select an IP range, or the specified device so the firewall will allow it to be seen by the pc.

after that you can try these:
open explorer and look for the NAS drive... find the folder within it which has the music files.

open one of the folders and right click onto it and choose 'open with' and select iTunes... if itunes is the only media player it should be listed and no need to pick open with, and simply pick play in itunes instead.

that should direct itunes to the drive.

if that isn't working... refer to my first note.

you can also connect the folder to your pc as a network folder. Then direct itunes to that now connected folder.

with my xp pro that's what I have to do to get things better... with xp home, I didn't have to. Vista didn't need such added measures as did xp pro... Pro has more security protocols in place. Vista just nags at you all the time until you disable the UAC... and setup defender better.

Also Vista has some out of the box issues at times with wireless connectivity... see my other Vista posts on the fix for that.

it's easy... even I can do it. it's just not terribly intuitive.

Thanks for these suggestions. I will certainly try all these.

Yes, the NAS path was a typo...it is 192.168.1.8.

Thanks again
Glenn