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el rubio
el rubio
Nov 27, 2021 1:25 PM UTC

Sonos SMBv2 support on Synology NAS DSM7 is here

Just wanted to share the good news that I am successfully deploying the SMBv2 protocol on my Synology NAS (DSM 7.0.1-42218) with the Sonos App (version 13.4). Moreover, the NTLMv1 authentication is no longer needed.

 
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    Airgetlam
    Airgetlam
    Nov 27, 2021 5:22 PM UTC

    Interesting. Wonder if Sonos had a reason not to announce this yet. Perhaps it doesn’t work in all situations, but it is in yours? That would be a good reason not to make a general announcement, it working in some cases, and not in others.

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    Airgetlam
    Airgetlam
    Nov 27, 2021 5:26 PM UTC

    For instance, issues posted in this thread, which was next on my reading list:

     

    It’s hard to believe they would not announce such a ground-breaking change unless there were still issues with it, possibly beyond what is mentioned in that thread. 

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    Bruce
    Stanley_4
    Stanley_4
    Grand Maestro
    Nov 27, 2021 8:31 PM UTC

    I’m seeing SMB 3 v2 to my Linux based NAS.

    Sonos has mentioned the SMB upgrade to customers but it isn’t anywhere in the release notes or forum announcements that I can see. SMB 3 post:

    It looks to be buggy so use with care.

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    el rubio
    el rubioAuthor
    Nov 27, 2021 8:34 PM UTC

    Interesting. Wonder if Sonos had a reason not to announce this yet. Perhaps it doesn’t work in all situations, but it is in yours? That would be a good reason not to make a general announcement, it working in some cases, and not in others.

    It definitely works in my case and did not have an impact on the Album artwork. I thought it would be nice to share some positive feedback and give the Synology NAS users hope this issue is being actually addressed by Sonos.

     
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    el rubio
    el rubioAuthor
    Nov 27, 2021 11:20 PM UTC

    I’m seeing SMB 3 v2 to my Linux based NAS.

    Sonos has mentioned the SMB upgrade to customers but it isn’t anywhere in the release notes or forum announcements that I can see. SMB 3 post:

    It looks to be buggy so use with care.

    it would be helpful if Sonos could comment on this and indicate if this is an ‘undocumented or hidden feature’, an ‘unsupported feature’, a ‘beta release feature’ or anything else ...

     
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    rich.fromm
    Lyricist III
    Nov 29, 2021 11:38 PM UTC

    Is this with the S2 controller, or S1 ? (I have a Sonos Connect that can’t upgrade to S2, so my system is still on S1 and probably will be forever.)

     

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    Airgetlam
    Airgetlam
    Nov 29, 2021 11:43 PM UTC

    It would be S2 only. S1 will never have the capability of this type of upgrade, just not enough space to update the kernel. 

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    Bruce
    rich.fromm
    Lyricist III
    Nov 29, 2021 11:55 PM UTC

    I just tried it with S1, and still get:

    Unable to add the music share \\192.168.x.x\media\Music to your music library (900)

    Then when I check the NAS (a Synology in my case), there is a log message:

    Host [192.168.x.x] failed to connect via [SMB] due to [SMB1 not permitted].

    Did you have to do anything on the Sonos side to get it to try SMB2? My system is updated to the latest version (11.2.13), so I suspect this probably requires S2.

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    Ken_Griffiths
    Ken_Griffiths
    Nov 30, 2021 12:46 AM UTC

    I just tried it with S1, and still get:

    Unable to add the music share \\192.168.x.x\media\Music to your music library (900)

    Then when I check the NAS (a Synology in my case), there is a log message:

    Host [192.168.x.x] failed to connect via [SMB] due to [SMB1 not permitted].

    Did you have to do anything on the Sonos side to get it to try SMB2? My system is updated to the latest version (11.2.13), so I suspect this probably requires S2.

    Yes, I understand that the S1 Sonos App, continues to support SMB v1 only. 

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    el rubio
    el rubioAuthor
    Nov 30, 2021 10:47 PM UTC

    Is this with the S2 controller, or S1 ? (I have a Sonos Connect that can’t upgrade to S2, so my system is still on S1 and probably will be forever.)

     

    Yes, I use it with the S2 Sonos App (version 13.4) on a MacBook Pro with macOS Big Sur 11.6.1

     
     
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