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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1182978" data-attributes="member: 109222">Hi.I think you have not entered the credentials to access files on your NAS. This has to be done before you add any media sources to the MP2 server. So best is to stop the MP2 server, delete the old database in &quot;c:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MP2-Server\Database\Datastore.s3db&quot; (if you didn't alter the installation path manually) and then start the MP2 server again. ProgramData is a hidden folder by default so make sure you can see them in Explorer. Now run a client (no matter which one) and go to settings - server settings - network credentials. For now you only can add one pair of username and password so make sure you have the same user available on every NAS in your network.Now you can start adding your media sources. If your media has metatags (ID3 tags for music or matroska tags for videos) they will be recognized properly no matter what name they have. If not, you can achieve the same with the well known .nfo files. If you don't have one of them the naming scheme is very important for successful identification. So maybe some of your media only will show up in &quot;Videos&quot; or &quot;Browse Media&quot; not in Movies or Series. If this happens the naming did not deliver unique results and you need to adjust something in the way you prepare your media.And be aware that the first run of an import will last some time as all fanart and other metadata needs to be downloaded from the internet. This will happen in background but you may not see any fanart for some time. And if possible don't add&nbsp; all your media sources at once. Better to test with one source, see if it works and then add the next one step by step...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1182978, member: 109222"] Hi. I think you have not entered the credentials to access files on your NAS. This has to be done before you add any media sources to the MP2 server. So best is to stop the MP2 server, delete the old database in "c:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MP2-Server\Database\Datastore.s3db" (if you didn't alter the installation path manually) and then start the MP2 server again. ProgramData is a hidden folder by default so make sure you can see them in Explorer. Now run a client (no matter which one) and go to settings - server settings - network credentials. For now you only can add one pair of username and password so make sure you have the same user available on every NAS in your network. Now you can start adding your media sources. If your media has metatags (ID3 tags for music or matroska tags for videos) they will be recognized properly no matter what name they have. If not, you can achieve the same with the well known .nfo files. If you don't have one of them the naming scheme is very important for successful identification. So maybe some of your media only will show up in "Videos" or "Browse Media" not in Movies or Series. If this happens the naming did not deliver unique results and you need to adjust something in the way you prepare your media. And be aware that the first run of an import will last some time as all fanart and other metadata needs to be downloaded from the internet. This will happen in background but you may not see any fanart for some time. And if possible don't add all your media sources at once. Better to test with one source, see if it works and then add the next one step by step... [/QUOTE]

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