SMB2 (or SMB3) support must be supported NOW!

I just don’t see this as a big issue, a NAS (any Linux supported protocol) to SMB v1 protocol converter / gateway is a few minutes work and about $25 using a Raspberry Pi Zero W.

I’d really feel silly taking a bath on dumping my Sonos on ebay or the like over such a minor issue.

I respectfully disagree. I have spent well over $1,000 in Sonos equipment and they won’t at least jump into the 21st century in IT security?  I am sorry, get with the program Sonos or watch what happens. People are going to leave in droves. 

Few people play their music from files these days. Most use a mac or a pc for it, the percentage that use a NAS is even smaller. The percentage who use Synology is smaller still. “Droves”, lol.

So why are you on these boards defending Sonos?  Sounds like to me tour an employee or have some sort of personal/economical interest. 
The only people I see on these boards are people pissed off at the fact that Sonos doesn’t give to shi.. about their customers IT security.  
 

“Droves……...take a look around now, Sonos is only getting a smaller customer base. 

I am giving my opinion based on over a decade of streaming files to my Sonos, after creating multiple commercial Sonos apps, after working with Sonos engineering in their codebase and after many years of monitoring this forum and it's predecessor. It's an opinion, treat it as you like.

LOL!  Exactly. Defending Sonos for obvious reasons. Like I said, take a look at the boards and understand what Sonos’s customers want. Step into the 21st century and give your customers something other than SMB1.   Otherwise people will leave. 
 

I have spent $1,000+ on Sonos and love the platform but if you think SMB1 is acceptable, then I am out along with a lot of other people on this board. 

Do I think SMBv1 is a good idea? No. Do I think Sonos will fix it? Hmm probably not IMHO. Engineering decisions are driven by various criteria, such as number of customers affected (tiny), complexity of fix (low for S2 assuming the Linux kernel has already been updated and I have no idea if that has happened, high if not), availability of work arounds (there are lots) and risk of the security issue (debatable).

SMH. 

Come on Sonos, where is SMB2/3support for S2 hardware?

Take the time to go back and read the history on this issue. I’m not going to re-do all the work I’ve put in in the past and I expect others feel the same just to save you looking it up.

I will sum it up quickly, Sonos has long used an unsupported version of Linux that they have manually patched with the bare minimum stuff needed to stay secure. SMB didn’t make the cut because it required a newer kernel that wouldn’t fit on the older hardware. Making it worse the newer SMB is bigger too.

There is hope but it involves Sonos doing a new kernel and that is mind-bendingly difficult. Then they have to port all their patches and tweaks to the new kernel. Then they have to do the applications. And finally when the core is complete they need to port the Sonos software onto the kernel/GPL base.