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Enthusiast I
June 14, 2019

SMB2 (or SMB3) support must be supported NOW!

  • 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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Contributor I
December 9, 2021

@jgatie well I was more worried about other data/software sitting on the same server being hacked/corrupted than Sonos data but yes I take your point, there does seem a rather disproportionate amount of sturm and drang

Contributor I
December 9, 2021

@el rubio yep, you’re right of course. I didn’t mention I only noticed it because I bought a new NAS unit therefore moving from DSM 6.2 to DSM 7 which triggered Sonos failure as it by default switches off SMB1. Until then I have been using SMB1 on DSM 6.2 (Synology DS213j) for years with not a care in the world. It’s a sturn in a tea cup. Still, I have to confess to being a bit of a geek and once i hear about a problem, however overblown I do like to find a good solution.

el rubio
December 9, 2021

for that matter, UPnP cannot be disabled on Sonos and is also considered as a vulnerability although nobody makes a hype about that - with regards to documentation, I found this (old) paper on the Internet

 
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jgatie
December 9, 2021

for that matter, UPnP cannot be disabled on Sonos and is also considered as a vulnerability although nobody makes a hype about that - with regards to documentation, I found this (old) paper on the Internet

 

 

Absolutely.  I had a long conversation with someone using the SMB1 “attack vector” as a basis for his wish to have passwords in the app to keep his kids from turning the music up in other rooms.  I tried to explain that anyone hacking his system needed to only send raw UPnP calls to Sonos to do almost anything they wish, and no password at the app level was going to stop them.  

Sotiris C.
Sonos Staff
December 14, 2021

Hello everyone, thanks to the introduction of our S2 platform, we've now added support for SMBv3. Sonos S2 devices will use the highest version of SMB supported by your NAS device. To access this update, you may need to manually change the configuration of your NAS device.

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el rubio
December 14, 2021

Hello everyone, thanks to the introduction of our S2 platform, we've now added support for SMBv3. Sonos S2 devices will use the highest version of SMB supported by your NAS device. To access this update, you may need to manually change the configuration of your NAS device.

For a Synology NAS you may use these settings. :grin:

 
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Lyricist I
December 27, 2021

Hello everyone, thanks to the introduction of our S2 platform, we've now added support for SMBv3. Sonos S2 devices will use the highest version of SMB supported by your NAS device. To access this update, you may need to manually change the configuration of your NAS device.

Great news Sotiris - I’ve  been struggling to get my library to work with Sonos since SMB1 became deprecated by pretty much everyone apart from Sonos.  Album artwork is a bit laggy. 
(I tried Plex - which was flaky for CD quality FLAC files)

Contributor I
December 29, 2021

Hello everyone, thanks to the introduction of our S2 platform, we've now added support for SMBv3. Sonos S2 devices will use the highest version of SMB supported by your NAS device. To access this update, you may need to manually change the configuration of your NAS device.

Thank you! 
I can confirm my Netgear ReadyNAS + QNAP is now set & working on SMB3 (as a minimum)

December 29, 2021

Hello everyone, thanks to the introduction of our S2 platform, we've now added support for SMBv3. Sonos S2 devices will use the highest version of SMB supported by your NAS device. To access this update, you may need to manually change the configuration of your NAS device.

But the OP said that they were using old kit “Deciding I am probably safe to continue linking my (very) old Sonos setup (think Zoneplayer 100) “, so surely  this can’t run S2 software.

Lyricist I
December 30, 2021

hello,

Installed yesterday my first DSM 7.0 and Synology has the solution for it (installed in German - i hope translation is correct):

  1. Control panel
  2. File Services (second point)
  3. Extended settings - activate SMB1 as minimum SMB protocol
  4. Other tab → Activate NTLMv1 Authentication

Sonos works with all S1 components! 

Some hint, if somebody has problems with storage on Sonos devices:

  1. make path as short as possible
  2. we use .flac files - every title is named with 01.flac … 09.flac
  3. Servername as short as possible: M1
  4. share as short as possible: we use “c”
  5. full path: //M1/c/artist-album/01.flac


 

Regards from Austria and have a happy new year!