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I share a SSD HD on my WiFi using USB to Asus AX WiFi router. I have my Sonos Music Library on that disk.

I used to have an Airport Extreme router, using this disk. With Asus some players does not find the Music Library, actually they don’t even find the HD.

Since I have older components I use S1. I’ve read that it might have to do with Samba version. Could that be the case when some components still can find the Music Library and play the files?

Not sure if the Asus router lets me change Samba version.

Also, which would be the recommended file system on the shared disk for Sonos compability?

Addition. Using the Terminal command “smbutil statshares -m /Volumes/<shared folder name>” in macOS I get this info anout the router’s SMB versions:

SMB_NEGOTIATE
SMBV_NEG_SMB1_ENABLED
SMBV_NEG_SMB2_ENABLED
SMBV_NEG_SMB3_ENABLED

SMB_VERSION
SMB_2.002

 

 

S1 can only use SMBv1.

S1 can only use SMBv1.

Do you refer to hardware that is only S1 compatible or do you refer to the S1 app?

I interpret “SMBV_NEG_SMB1_ENABLED” from above as an indication SMB1 can be used for communication between server and Sonos when required. But I’m not sure.

 

I might have discovered a completely different cause for my issue, see new thread:

 

 

The SONOS S1 system can only deal with SMBv1. In general, manufacturers have decided that SMBv1 is a security risk and they will not support it by default. Unfortunately, the older SONOS hardware does not have enough resources to be configured to install anything other than SMBv1. 

Updating a computer or NAS drive often terminates SMBv1 support, but you may be able to reinstall SMBv1 drivers.

As I understand it OP is connecting his drive to a router that says SMBv1 is enabled.

 

​@T-S Did you ask ASUS for help?

As I understand it OP is connecting his drive to a router that says SMBv1 is enabled.

 

​@T-S Did you ask ASUS for help?

Yes, that’s what I believe. However I’m following another path for solving this right now. Please see link above. If that’s not the cause of my problems then I’ll get back to looking at Samba SMB-versions.

The solution was to reformat the drive to FAT32. Samba and SMB versions was not the cause.

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