SMB2 (or SMB3) support must be supported NOW!

Hi @Palle Louw 1, welcome to the Sonos Community!

Synology NAS drives often revert to not allowing SMBv1 after updating, mind checking that the Minimum SMB version is set to SMB 1? Here’s some guidance from the Synology website on adjusting SMB settings. 

Let us know if that helps :)

@Palle Louw 1 

There is a workaround for DSM7 Beta:

https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/20/post/139200

Thanks Claus. Unfortunately it is not working with my beta version.

Same as all people here.
It’s very strange that Sonos doesn’t solve this SMB2 compatibility for S2 products…

It lasts for a while, and soon DSM7 will be realesed in final version, and problem still here.
I stopped to buy Sonos products since I installed DSM 7 beta, and if there is no solution (not the SMB1 patch) I will make a cross on this mark !

If you look at other projects that have a more open development process than Sonos you can get an idea of the difficulty of moving from an antique/obsolete and heavily internally patched Linux system to a current release.

Well, yes… But considering the amount of time that they must have spent on S2, and how little extra it actually does, I’d have thought that moving to a new kernel as the base would have been highly desirable.

I don’t know where Sonos is in the process of moving S2 systems to a modern Linux but if they are like a couple of my past employers, ones that listened to their project managers (No problem. Couple months will see us right) rather than the programmers (Maybe a year with much overtime and a couple tech experts brought in for the fiddly bits.) they may be deep in the woods and far from a solution.

I’d love to see something but with my Raspberry Pi serving up my SMBv1 music I really don’t care much either way.

I don’t see any merit in trying to second guess or debate the development and technical challenges on the Sonos side.

The subject of this thread is a feature request and there is clearly demand from the Sonos community for it, not least because of the well publicised security vulnerabilities present in SMB v1 which have already been exploited.

I too have Synology NAS drives and their upcoming DSM 7 software will disable access to my existing music library on Sonos which is a major issue for me. Workarounds are only feasible for some users and not an acceptable long term solution.

Synology have even provided a link to this thread from their own community forums in order to encourage people to request that Sonos address the issue - https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/20/post/139200

So go on Sonos, please can we have support for SMB v2/v3?

This is a fairly new SMB topic, only a year old at this point. The SMB issue goes way back, maybe 2008, and the answer from Sonos has always been the same.

Ask, complain, whatever works for you. I chose to solve the problem with my two Pi options. Someday I may be able to switch to a Sonos solution but it hasn’t been that day for 13 years now and counting.

I’m just hoping Sonos doesn’t just drop SMB sharing and make the whole problem go away. That would be the easy path, couple edits to the source code and push an update and POOF, no more SMB complaints.

That is certainly one solution. If they published the http sharing protocol, maybe with a node sample app, they could do that and folks could just run the node app on their NASs. That would even work with S1 systems without having to change them.