Playing Files From NAS

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I have a Synology DS416slim NAS and an external HD hooked up to it’s USB port (USB 3.0). When I try to play files from a folder on the external HD hooked up to the NAS, it’s a constant game of pushing the play button, the file playing half a second and then quitting. Sometimes I can catch the video and pause it (and I see the buffering bar fill up a little) and then play it again and it works. But sometimes I have file that will just refuse to play. These aren’t big files either. Maybe 1gig or 4gigs.

I’ve had this HD hooked up to the NAS for a long time and this has only started happening in the last few months. Previously it’d worked smoothly with any file I was playing from the external drive.

I’m not sure how to diagnose this and would appreciate some help.

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First step is to upload some logs so that we better understand how you access the NAS.
Either why the Menu → MyOSMC → Log Uploader
Or via command line grab-logs -A and share the URL

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Oh, man. I had no idea there was a log uploader. Looking at the log now, I realize that the external drive was being accessed by SMB instead of NFS. I thought I’d changed them to NFS a while ago after reading about folks having similar problems with SMB. But, I guess they’d switched back somehow when I redid my modem/router setup recently. Once I switched them back to NFS, it seems to have worked itself out.

Thanks for your comment and help!

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