Hello all. I’ve owned Sonos gear since 2005:
- I created my first local music library back before streaming services. It contains several hundred albums of music - some of which are not available via online services - on a 64BG thumb drive;
- I first had the drive connected to the USB port of a router - until that was obsoleted due to security concerns;
- For many years, my solution was to use an Apple Airport Extreme as a router or dedicated file sharing gizmo;
- All of that was broken when the decision to drop support SMB v1 took place.
I have tried, on my own and with the Sonos support folks, to figure out a way to regain access to this music. I haven’t been able to justify the cost of adding a NAS server. This summer, I used some of the AI tools to see if there was a solution using an inexpensive router that had SMB v2 support:
- There is an inexpensive [$29.99] router made by GL.iNet called a Mango;
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If you’re willing to spend some time tweaking its software, you can get it to act as a local music server supporting SMB v2:
- The firmware has to be downgraded to an earlier version that supports file sharing;
- Once downgraded, a file needs to be updated [it’s a Linux box] to tell the Samba SMB software to use SMB v2;
- I’m not a programmer – and between Gemini and GLi.Net tech support, I was able to get my library back online.
If folks think it would be helpful, I can post the prompts that I used to tell you how to try this out.
