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My NAS, that I’ve used with Sonos V1 and up until earlier this year is old and only supports SMB1. Unfortunately Sonos’ decision to completely cutoff SMB1 has defeated this solution for share a Music Library.

My router provides a USB folder share for files such as a Music Library. It is accessed via local DNS at \\readyShare\Music. All files are visible to the desktop app and Android app indicating that the apps are connecting with the share. However playing a file (mp3) results in Access Denied. The folder does not have credentials enabled however I have tried with no credentials as well as the router’s, none work.

I have also tried sharing a folder on my local Window 11 PC, same result, files are visible however playing files are access denied. I’ve tried opening ports 443, 3443 and disabling the local firewall altogether on the PC.  There is no firewall that I’m aware of on the router, same for the Androids.

I’ve called Support 3 times, each time they say no techs are available but someone will call/email within 48 hours, of course that never happens. 

Does anyone have an idea what could be the issue?

The decision to abandon SMB v1 is in line with many other manufacturers who have done the same thing. Sonos was actually late in making this decision. 

What error code are you getting when trying to add a library?

Have a look at this support page for some fixes:

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/search?q=error+adding+local+library

I get the reasoning for abandoning SMB1 however IMO it should have been left as OPT IN ONLY for those of us who have merrily gone along for years.  My NAS cannot be updated to SMB2.  That said…

 

I mentioned I can create a Music Library and both the desktop and phone app are able to perform a directory list on it. There is no error CREATING the library. The error comes when I select a song.mp3 to play, the error then is Access Denied.

Just did a search and this was one of the posts that came up in this community:

It seems be a bug affecting the Era and mobile speakers. But it says that Sonos is aware of this.

Thank you ​@Pools-3015 . Can you point me to instructions for setting up Windows Share? I haven’t gotten that to work either. Using Era and Move-2 so that may be a contributing factor. What’s unfortunate is they used to work until mid-summer, then an update took them out.

Not a great solution but you could set up an SMB vX to SMB v1 gateway and share your current NAS across it.

This example is on a Raspberry Pi but any system that fully supports Samba/SMB should be able to do the same.

https://stan-miller.livejournal.com/357.html  or SMB v1 Gateway

I’m ​@Stanley_4  Thank you for the suggestion, I’m not a Linux guy, perhaps can do something with PowerShell I’ll try. My concern now is it appears the sp  a8rejc

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