Enthusiast I

SMB2 (or SMB3) support must be supported NOW!

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
June 14, 2019
281 replies
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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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rpmohn

Contributor I

You can still force samba to work with Sonos by editing the smb.conf file and adding

client min protocol = NT1
server min protocol = NT1
ntlm auth = yes

to the global section of that file.

I only had to add

server min protocol = NT1

to get it to work. However, #disappointed

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page3

Enthusiast I

I was hopeful the S2 OS (12.0) would support this out of the box, but it appears not.

Shame, as I still cannot access my music library from Sonos it’s back to Plex/MacMini for me. That combination works extremely well.

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Marcel Fischer

Lyricist II

Even with S2, Sonos does NOT support SMB2. This is very disappointing! I would like to know the reasons from a Sonos representative!

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quintanarra

Trending Lyricist I

You can still force samba to work with Sonos by editing the smb.conf file and adding

client min protocol = NT1
server min protocol = NT1
ntlm auth = yes

to the global section of that file.

I only had to add

 server min protocol = NT1

to get it to work. However, #disappointed

I have a small plug device with smb exposed just for Sonos library. Was going mad after I upgraded packages this week (including samba) and could not figure out why Sonos did not detect the share, server min protocol setting did the trick.

Also #disappointed

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jlockwood

Contributor I

I had come across the SMB1 issue and the fact Sonos only support SMB1 a long time ago so I am shocked that apparently even the new S2 software still requires it.

Apparently Sonos have a workaround for their Windows app in that it uses http as per https://en.community.sonos.com/setting-up-sonos-228990/smb2-or-smb3-support-must-be-supported-now-6826700?postid=16341722#post16341722

That message does not give any details and Sonos have pretty much been totally silent about this entire SMB issue for years.

I would not regard NFS as a solution and AFP even less so, however what about WebDAV? This is basically http/https and without any details on how their PC share via http works it could be they are close to doing this already.

At least some if not all NAS boxes have built-in WebDAV support.

Whilst I feel it is absolutely necessary for Sonos to fix this themselves another approach I have not seen mentioned in this thread would be to run a VM on a NAS purely for the purposes of operating the SMB1 share. It would then not require additional hardware, would use the content already on the NAS, would allow the NAS itself to leave SMB1 turned off but would make the music accessible via ugh! SMB1.

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User418417

Lyricist I

I find it insane that this still an issue and there has been no official response from Sonos. I am sure we have all invested a good deal of money into our systems.

Has anybody opened a support ticket to get an official response?

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clickmanf22

Lyricist I

Very disappointed in Sonos. I have just updated all my older speakers to support S2 and still they are running a version of SMB known to be insecure SMB V1, even on the new S2 APP. This version of SMB was superseded over 3 years ago. Come on Sonos Sort this out, stop putting our systems at risk.

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bill_paris

Contributor I

Please sort it out as I can’t backup to my NAS drive as the OS on those systems won’t backup to NAS with v1. So I’m stuck and have to have a special NAS drive for Sonos with old school stuff on it.