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[boxer]

Hello,

Apologize if this has been covered. I'm currently running Media Center on a Mac Pro. However, I mostly use laptops to play music and I cannot move files and organize the library remotely, receiving the error "This tool is not available when connected to a server."

I'm looking into investing in a NAS connected to the router to decrease latency and not have to be running a desktop as server. Will all computers connected to the NAS have permission to make changes to manage the library or will there need to be a Host? Seems like the Raspberry Pi option outlined on the wiki is nearly a decade old. What's the latest way to run this efficiently?

Many thanks

[JimH]

Are you using media server? You need to set authentication on the server.  Login and password. Otherwise you can't change the server's library.

[boxer]

Perhaps I wasn't explaining correctly at all. I am not trying to change the actual server's library. I am wondering if it's possible to have the music library on a NAS instead of another computer's laptop and have it managed by whichever computer is using it.

When you talk about authentication, would that fix the issue here?

Currently, the server computer allows other computers on the network and remote ones using the temperamental JRemote app and they sometimes but most of the time there are issues. This leads me to believe that authentication is allowed on the server. I suspect that the system will run more efficiently with an NAS directly connected to the Router.

However, the fact that Host is not allowed to organize the library makes me doubt whether this is the workaround. What's the general consensus on how a media server should be setup without a computer?

[Richard Martin]

You can put your media files on a NAS. You then need to run Media Centre on a computer, which could be a Pi, a desktop,  a laptop or one of some other options. We'll call this the server.
Through Media Centre, you then create a library of the files on the NAS and manage them from that computer.
If you want to play your media from the server with another instance of MC on another device (a client) you load the server library on the second instance.
If you want to do things like edit cover art, edit tags, manage playlists, etc, from the second instance, you need to set up authentication on the server and log on when you load the library on the client.
If you want to do things like move or copy files on the NAS using the client instance of MC then you need to ensure that the path to the files on the NAS is the same for the client and the server and that the user on the client has the correct rights on the NAS.