NAS recommendations

This was super helpful!  I ordered a Ravpower and will connect a 400Gb sdxc card I already have and hope to use it as a wire Sonos library source with my Sonos connect- fingers crossed!

Looking into other options incase the RAV Power doesnt work out -  I stumbled across this:
https://thepi.io/how-to-use-your-raspberry-pi-as-a-nas-box/
If I read this correctly, I should be able download an image onto an SDXC card, stick it in my Raspberry Pi 3B, and then with a couple of config settings in the UI, enable a it as a wired nas that will connect directly into my Sonos connect! 

Good science project over the Holiday break!

This may save you some digging for the PI settings: https://stan-miller.livejournal.com

I’m using a Pi 3B with a piggy-back M.2 card as it created a smaller setup and less clutter than an external drive. The 3B has plenty of power for this and a few other light duty tasks at the same time.

The Raspberrian Buster Desktop or Lite will work well, no need for the full Pi system and that makes for a lot more updates. I used Desktop release as I like to use VNC to manage the PI from other computers so I don’t have to use SSH or keep a keyboard, mouse and monitor attached.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

I have a RAVPower Filehub and for the life of me I can’t get the Sonos to see the share.  What directory did you point the Sonos to on the Filehub?  Sonos sees the Filehub as a computer but tells me there is no share “directory name” on the computer Filehub - no matter what directory I give it.  My Android TV can see the Filehub just fine.

Did you enable SMB v1 on the file hub? Sonos requires that be active.

Yes - I have both Samba and DLNA turned on.  Interestingly last night the error changed to an error code 900 which indicates some storage space problem.  However I could type in nonexistent directory names and still get the 900 error so I doubt the accuracy of that.  I need somebody who has the filehub working to tell me exactly what they typed into the Sonos app for the directory.  With that I should be able to see if my system is just broken...

Note that Stanley said SMB v1, and not just Samba. Most devices use Samba v3, and need to be changed to allow the older version to work. This is a fairly common issue for communication between the Sonos app running on the speakers and an NAS. 

Aha - ok I will see if the RAV folks can help me change that and see if it works.  That would explain perhaps why the older post said it works fine - it may have been v1 at that time.  Thank you.

For what it’s worth here’s the mount command I need to see the Rav  using linux

http://192.168.0.103/files/Music /mnt/sandisk    davfs   defaults,uid=root,gid=root,_netdev,auto  0       0

I don’t think I ever got it working with cifs

Hello everybody, 

so does this set up with the ravpower really works? If yes, which model (RAVPower Filehub  Wireless Travel Router N300 or RAVPower RP-WD009) have you used and what is the way to find the path to your music folder that needs to be shared with Sonos? 

In my case, i would just need this ravpower device connected directly to my router and have my music folder (around 700 GB) into an external 2.5drive connected to Ravpower USB port.

Is it as simple as i describe it or do i also need to connect to Ravpower with a browser from my PC, access its settings with a browser and check if samba or smb1 is enabled? 
As i have never done this before i might be already in the wrong direction in my description above!