Hi Frank
Most grateful for your help!
Yes, I'd been guessing that the problem most probably is linked with that name.
My NAS's firmware has MiniDLNA as one of the servers built into it and MiniDLNA itself has no gui; however the NAS's web interface has a configuration page for MiniDLNA which shows "values to be stored" with default values pre-entered, and also in its minidlna directory has a file named <minidlna.conf>
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# port for HTTP (descriptions, SOAP, media transfer) traffic
port=8200
# network interface to bind to (this is the only interface that will serve files)
#network_interface=eth0
# set this if you want to customize the name that shows up on your clients
friendly_name=MiniDLNA
# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its database and album art cache
# fvdw do not change this setting when using in combination with fvdw firmware
db_dir=/share/1000/minidlna/database
# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its log file
# fvdw do not change this setting when using fvdw firmware log file will be stored in same diectory as the database
#log_dir=/var/log
# this should be a list of file names to check for when searching for album art
# note: names should be delimited with a forward slash
album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg
# set this to no to disable inotify monitoring to automatically discover new files default is yes
inotify=yes
# notify interval in seconds default is 895 seconds
notify_interval=900
# set this to strictly adhere to DLNA standards# This will allow server-side downscaling of very large JPEG images
# which may hurt JPEG serving performance on (at least) Sony DLNA products
strict_dlna=yes
# set this to yes to enable support for streaming jpg and mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMO
enable_tivo=no
# serial and model number the daemon will report to clients
# in its XML description
serial=12345678
model_number=1
# default presentation url is http address on port 80
presentation_url=http://192.168.11.5:8200/
# set this to the directory you want scanned
# if have multiple directories, you can have multiple media_dir= lines
# if you want to restrict a media_dir to a specific content type, you
# can prepend the type, followed by a comma, to the directory
# A for audio (eg. media_dir=A,/home/jmaggard/Music)
# V for video (eg. media_dir=V,/home/jmaggard/Videos)
# P for images (eg. media_dir=P,/home/jmaggard/Pictures)
(Note: "fvdw" is the name of the NAS's firmware)
You'll see that the file-path is /share/1000/minidlna. However, the default for "friendly name" is "MiniDLNA". On the firmware's configuration page the default entered for "Server name" is "MiniDLNA".
Is "minidlna" the name of your shared folder?
In a tab called "File Share Management" in my NAS's firmware all shared folders are listed (and shares can be added or deleted); there this particular share is named as "minidlna". However I suspect - though can no longer be certain - that that spelling may only reflect my own choice (of case, specifically) when I first added it as a shared folder).
(In Windows File Explorer as well the name is "minidlna" - but I don't suppose that matters one way or the other).