Enthusiast I

SMB2 (or SMB3) support must be supported NOW!

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June 14, 2019
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We are writing summer 2019 and still Sonos only supports SMB version 1 for the Music Library share.

This is not acceptable.

A file share running SMB1 is extremely vulnerable to all the variants of cryptolocker virus that exists today. File share servers (NAS, Windows, Apple OS) can only support one version of SMB - so you cannot from the same box have one file share (for Sonos) using SMB1 and the other file shares using SMB2 or SMB3. This way Sonos puts each and every file share at serious risc - just because they don’t update their file share protocol to comply with this century.

And for the record - the “solution” through PLEX is not a solution. Unstable at best.

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RonKiesler

Lyricist II

Workaround:

Activate NTLMv1 on NAS File server settings:

But this is not recommended, because insecure.

controlav

Lead Maestro

Are you telling me that if I swap all my Sonos speakers for current Sonos speakers that NTLMv2 will then work and currently only the fallback to NTMLv1 is performed by the Sonos speakers because there are a few older Play:1 speakers hanging in the system? If that's the case, I'll swap for the Play:One tomorrow. All other speakers (Play5:Gen2, Move, Roam, etc.) should then be NTLMv2 compatible, as there are certainly enough large memory chips in them to process the little Linux kernel.

There are signs that an updated SMB stack is on its way, for S2 devices. The recent regression with non ascii characters on the Sonos SL implies that changes are afoot, so there are faint signs of hope.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

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M1ch3l

Lyricist I

Hello,

My sonos read my music library on a synology NAS.

Synology support SMB1, 2 and 3. It is recommended to disable SMB1 for security reasons.

The majority of my devices connect to it using SMB2 or 3.

Unfortunately, I cannot disable SMB1 because it is the only version supported by sonos.

When will sonos also support SMB2 or 3 ?

SMB1 : has been created in 1985 : 36 years ago

SMB2 : was released in 2006 : 15 years ago.

SMB3 : was released in 2018 : 3 years ago.

Thanks in advance.

Michel.

Airgetlam

Michel,

May I recommend that you read the thread in which you’ve posted?

Bruce

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M1ch3l

Lyricist I

Bruce,

Sorry if my message was not clear or in a wrong section, english is not my mother langage.

Let me share my experience

I received last week a new PORT (S2). I upgraded the firmware and I use the latest S2 app on a mac.

I disabled SMB1 on my synology then created a new share volume. Sonos was not able to connect to it.

I re-enabled SMB1 on the synology and sonos was able to connect to it.

My oldest sonos device is a play1 running Sonos OS: S2, Version: 13.1.1 (build 63289260)

My conclusion is that a S2 devices does not support SMB2 or 3 and I just ask for the planned release date because I didn’t find it in the thread.

Michel.

Airgetlam

Ah, understood. My apologies if my response also sounded terse, the reasons around this have, as you’ve seen, been discussed over and over in this thread. As has the fact that Sonos doesn’t tell us what is on, or when we should see anything from the roadmap.

As you’ve seen from controlav’s posts, there are some hopeful signs. However, certainly I was hoping for forward movement long before this date, but having been in these sorts of software update processes before, am not surprised it hass taken this long. The real question is still whether or not Sonos considers this an important enough issue (probably decided by number of users, which has been previously conjectured to be in the single digit percentages) for them to dedicate coding resources to.

As has been stated before, we just don’t know, and we won’t know, until or even if Sonos releases it.

Being a user of local files myself, I certainly have hopes that it will come to pass. But I’m also not holding my breath.

Bruce

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WILDECHO

Lyricist II

Hello,

My sonos read my music library on a synology NAS.

Synology support SMB1, 2 and 3. It is recommended to disable SMB1 for security reasons.

The majority of my devices connect to it using SMB2 or 3.

Unfortunately, I cannot disable SMB1 because it is the only version supported by sonos.

When will sonos also support SMB2 or 3 ?

SMB1 : has been created in 1985 : 36 years ago

SMB2 : was released in 2006 : 15 years ago.

SMB3 : was released in 2018 : 3 years ago.

Thanks in advance.

Michel.

Hi Michel,

Just seen release notes from Synology on DSM 7, they are dropping support for SMB1, so if Sonos don’t update to SMB2/3 with immediate effect then I don’t think it will work anymore.