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SMB1 still required in 2021 for music shares?

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February 6, 2021
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As reported in many other topics apparently it's still necessary to use SMB1 for playing music from a Synology Diskstation system? It's now 2021 and I just had to change the settings on my diskstation to allow the unsecure SMB1 in order to be able to add a shared folder to my Sonos music library.

Sonos seems to be closing all topics on this forum about this subject for further comments, but is not addressing the problem?

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Grand Maestro

There are other work-around options, a NAS to SMB v1 gateway on a Raspberry Pi Zero W is my favorite solution.

Far better in my opinion than enabling SMB v1 on your NAS.

I am not aware of Sonos closing any thread on this dead-horse-beating topic. The largest thread I think is this one:

Sonos has shown no signs of addressing this problem, correct. Because, I assume, too few customers use NAS devices to make it worth their while, and there are other work-arounds available.

in my humble opinion this assumption has not been confirmed by SONOS - let us just hope Synology will not drop SMBv1 support some day

At present, the next major release of DSM, DSM 7, has dropped support for SMB1. There is currently a workaround, but I wouldn’t count on it for release, or for long term support. See - https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/20/post/139200

Thanks for the heads up Dave. I rest my case. Besides the poor NAS support, SONOS has also failed to provide adequate Apple Music playlist support for macOS users. Moreover, the SONOS playlists lack comprehensive resume functionality.

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Lyricist I

I just upgraded to DSM 7and had to search the internet after my music share stopped working. Why has Sonos not fixed this yet ?

Lyricist I

I just upgraded to DSM 7and had to search the internet after my music share stopped working. Why has Sonos not fixed this yet ?

Same here, it is not acceptable. I am looking for an alternative product to Sonos.

I just upgraded to DSM 7and had to search the internet after my music share stopped working. Why has Sonos not fixed this yet ?

Same here, it is not acceptable. I am looking for an alternative product to Sonos.

Perhaps see this LINK

Lyricist I

I just upgraded to DSM 7and had to search the internet after my music share stopped working. Why has Sonos not fixed this yet ?

Same here, it is not acceptable. I am looking for an alternative product to Sonos.

Perhaps see this LINK

Thank you Ken. Unfortunately I own a Play:5 S1, I have to surrender to the idea of not using it for my local playlist anymore, or opting for a CIFS gateway with a Raspberry. Or again, make an investment in a new product.

I just upgraded to DSM 7and had to search the internet after my music share stopped working. Why has Sonos not fixed this yet ?

Same here, it is not acceptable. I am looking for an alternative product to Sonos.

Perhaps see this LINK

Thank you Ken. Unfortunately I own a Play:5 S1, I have to surrender to the idea of not using it for my local playlist anymore, or opting for a CIFS gateway with a Raspberry. Or again, make an investment in a new product.

Why not just buy something sacrificial, instead of using your Synology? Much cheaper than changing your Sonos kit for something else - and much easier to set up than the raspberry option.

I use a cheap NAS - it’s been running virtually non-stop for 10 years, now. When it fails I’ll just slot another cheap one in running SMB1.

Grand Maestro

I originally went the “cheap NAS” route, soon discovered WD had abandoned it and wasn’t providing security updates. I felt it wasn’t safe to leave on line at that point.

If you look at the Pi SMB v1 setup instructions it is dead simple and only takes a few minutes. The Pi is designed to keep getting security and other updates for the foreseeable future.

No big deal which way you go aside from enabling SMB v1 on a NAS holding important data. That is a non-starter in my opinion.

I originally went the “cheap NAS” route, soon discovered WD had abandoned it and wasn’t providing security updates. I felt it wasn’t safe to leave on line at that point.

I can’t say that I’m overly bothered - it’s not exposed to the outside world, so they need to get into my network first.

No big deal which way you go aside from enabling SMB v1 on a NAS holding important data. That is a non-starter in my opinion.

Absolutely - all my non-Sonos data is on a much more secure Synology.

Grand Maestro

If you can put a firewall rule set in place to keep your SMB v1 NAS off the Internet completely that is a reasonable choice.

The problem with a lot of these devices is that they want access to remote servers/services and are aggravating in various ways if they don’t get it. Some stuff you can spoof to a local server like NTP but other stuff is more difficult or impossible to spoof.

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