I have set the minidlna path to the usb drive and there is a folder there called minidlnadb which is empty. I'm not trying to use that part yet. What I am talking about is if I go to network places on my windows machine all I see is my pc and the router, not my NAS drive or either of my two Patriot Box Office media streamers. If I go to the media streamers and try to browse the network for files I don't see any of my other devices in the list. I have to use the IP address to locate them. If I reboot the router then everything works fine for a couple days.

I enabled the local dns setting last night so I will see how it goes. I already had the UPnP enabled previously.

On the miniDLNA side shouldn't there be something in the minidlnadb folder that I have located on my USB drive? I currently have my songs and pictures located there but I haven't tried to connect to it yet.