Wel.. I did finally get it (NAS) to AT LEAST run locally.
Now when I say "run" I mean startup, show the port, run clients - but make NO sound.
sigh... so yeah. networked audio. As much fun as kicking yourself in the head.
I kind of recall Geekmaster pushing out /dev/audio over ssh. perhaps that would bear looking at.
As for NAS. little joy for lots of work.
http://www.alsa-project.org/~tiwai/OSS-Emulation.html could be a way forward to fix my issues...
on the plus side:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...98512#19198512 I shared what we learned.
C'est la vie.
Nice to know it's not ONLY me
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=207659