MinimWatch2 not finding MinimServer2

[Mike48]

(04-06-2020 08:43)simoncn Wrote:  Do you use a switch as well as the router? Some similar previous issues have turned out to be caused by the switch.

Thanks, Simon. The NAS with MinimServer is connected directly to the router (an ASUS with 8 LAN ports). The PC goes through a TrendNet switch, but that doesn't explain why BubbleUPnP on a WiFi tablet couldn't find the server, either

I'm attributing this issue to an unknown singularity. My home-networked system works fine for months or years at a time, then suddenly, communications get lost and things can't find one another -- mostly it's the server that becomes invisible. It's just IPIO.*

Mike

* When I was a kid and a ham radio operator, a phenomenon so common as to have its own acronym was the Innate Perversity of Inanimate Objects. This basis for Murphy's Law clearly is a big factor in today's world of networked devices.