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A few days ago, I upgraded my components from S1 to S2. I was able to easily reestablish connections to Spotify, Pandora, Sirius, Soundcloud and so on, but I was not able to connect to my music library. I keep my library on a NAS (Buffalo Navigator 2). Some of the so-called help I found online for this problem included utilizing the sharing tab on the folder with my music. One problem...in Windows 11, the sharing tab is no longer available. Ugh. 

After a couple of frustrating days, I finally (and rather easily) figured it out what to do. I stopped mucking about with Sonos, and instead looked at the NAS. I opened the app for my NAS, selected the server, then from the menu tab, selected properties. I clicked open settings, entered my password, went to advanced settings, selected services, and I saw the DLNA server and print server were not on. I turned both on, and voila! I was able to access my music library. 

I suspect the DLNA was the culprit. I wish Sonos would do a better job explaining these things, I don’t seem to be the only person who had this problem. Anyway, I can now access my music library. I suspect the specific instructions will vary from NAS to NAS, but if you are having this issue, check the DLNA settings in your server. 

 

I’ve recently looked into seeing what I can do about my relatively new Crucial drive and updating the firmware. There’s an app for Windows machines but, nothing for us Mac users. I’ll have to call Support when I have an extra two or three hours more to spend on this. Frustrating is a mild term at this point. Since I don’t have a “server” so-to-speak, I don’t know if futzing with that will do any good. I’ve enabled about every sharing protocol that I could find so, it’s probably something small that I’m missing. Bottom line: It sure would be nice if Sonos would release an app that could get us hapless saps back to where we were in May. Oh well.


I’ve recently looked into seeing what I can do about my relatively new Crucial drive and updating the firmware. There’s an app for Windows machines but, nothing for us Mac users. I’ll have to call Support when I have an extra two or three hours more to spend on this. Frustrating is a mild term at this point. Since I don’t have a “server” so-to-speak, I don’t know if futzing with that will do any good. I’ve enabled about every sharing protocol that I could find so, it’s probably something small that I’m missing. Bottom line: It sure would be nice if Sonos would release an app that could get us hapless saps back to where we were in May. Oh well.

I updated to the latest iOS iPhone app as well as updated the speakers with the latest firmware. I still couldn’t add the Sonos music library; I got “Access Denied, check user name and password.” This is the same error every time. So, I called Crucial tech support since my music resides on their X8 SSD drive. They confirmed that the SMB protocol is dictated by the iMac. I have the latest OS on that iMac so I seriously doubt it’s an SMBV1 issue. My new issue since updating the Firmware is that my S2 controller on the iMac will not open without either updating it or resetting it. Last time I did that, I had to reinstall the old S2 app just to be able to see and manage my music on the desktop.


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