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goldy81
Contributor I
February 6, 2021

SMB1 still required in 2021 for music shares?

  • 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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    rich.fromm
    Lyricist III
    December 29, 2021

    One problem with Plex as a workaround is that even if your NAS and your Sonos are on the same LAN, and you do *not* desire to be able to access your music externally, Plex doesn’t work if you don’t allow outside connections from the public Internet. Which IMHO is a stupid design decision that unnecessarily compromises security.

      EDDD
      Lyricist III
      December 30, 2021

      Yes, that is stupid.

       

      But at least we have a choice between a known exploitable SMB1 setup, and Plex. 

       

      Having said that. Sonos should have fixed this.

      Ken_Griffiths
      Ken_Griffiths
      December 30, 2021

      Yes, that is stupid.

      But at least we have a choice between a known exploitable SMB1 setup, and Plex. 

      Having said that. Sonos should have fixed this.

      Which must surely be just as exploitable if you leave the TCP Port open (usually port 32400 by default) and not have the Plex service running on that port because you have shut down the Plex server, or have enabled UPNP on your router in order to use a dynamically assigned TCP port … I think I prefer to take my chances with SMBv1 given the choice.

      It’s mentioned in various threads here that Sonos were not able to upgrade the SMB protocol on the ‘old’ Linux kernel, but they were able to introduce it on the newer S2 setup - that has now been done.

      Ideally, it’s a far better option to upgrade/switch to the new S2 Sonos system as soon as practicable.

      rich.fromm
      Lyricist III
      December 30, 2021

       

      Ideally, it’s a far better option to upgrade/switch to the new S2 Sonos system as soon as practicable.

       

      I would do that, but I have a Sonos Connect that can’t upgrade to S2. Yes, I am aware that I could split my system in two, and upgrade the rest, but that would pretty much be removing the whole point of Sonos and rendering the Connect fairly useless. If they flipped the 30/70 discount on a trade-in (that is, if I could pay 30% of the new price, rather than just getting a 30% discount), I might consider it, even though the unnecessary e-waste would still be regrettable.

      Stanley_4
      Stanley_4
      Grand Maestro
      December 30, 2021

      Why not work around the SMBv1 issue by using a NAS to Sonos / SMBv1 gateway?

      I’d go with a Pi Zero 2 these days, about $15 if you go for a sale.

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