Synology NAS compatibility

My understanding was that the NAS would be at risk, but not the other non-SMB1 devices. Others may know better, though.

How much music do you actually have?

I had about 300gbs on my previous storage (it was a MusicM8) but it died a while ago and I can’t remember if I ripped to FLAC or WAV - I suspect WAV. I’m going to rerip everything plus I have probably double the number of CDs to do now. I’m guessing I’ll need about 500-800gbs which is not heaps so I have lots of space for FLAC files if I get a 2 or 3TB drive.

Although that’s not huge, it’s still large by Sonos standards. I have about 735Gb of files at the moment, mostly FLAC - a few MP3. There are about 39k files. Sonos cannot handle any more, so I have to move files in and out to keep the overall library size down.

I do have the full set of files on my Synology, and run a music server on it. By plugging a Chromecast Audio into your ZP90 (or amps, if you prefer) you can then cast music using the entire set. This gets around the SMB1 issue completely and also natively plays hi-res files. I use Hificast to do the casting part. if needed.

I hae used Sonos S1 with my synology disk station for years. Just updated to S2.

As they say, above, if you use synology with S1 you do need to enable SMB1 and some insecure authentication protocol. But it works just fine with the current  Synology 7 DSM, it does support that old stuff, it’s just not the SMB default.

If you can use S2, however, I would do that. In fact I updated to S2 just so I wouldn’t need to turn on those ancient protocols.

Thanks @robokitty

That gives me much more confidence that it’ll all work.

The OP said “I would like to connect the Synology NAS to my Sonos system which is made up of 5 Sonos ZP120 Amps and 1 Sonos ZP90 Zone Player“ - so no S2

oh, sorry. good point. So OP will need to enable SMB1 and also NTLMv1. Then Sonos S1 will work fine with synology DS.I did it last week, it works fine. Synology will warn you that these are obsolete and insecure protocols, but then it will work.

Hi All,

I have an S1 set up. I have played around with using Plex to cast my music directly to the Sonos speakers (thereby avoiding the SMB1 issue). It works fine so far, though I must admit I prefer the Sonos app.

One question - so Sonos S2 does support SMB2? I’ve read conflicting posts about that. Thanks!

Steven 

Hi @stevensimak,

Yes. S2 supports both SMBv2 and v3 🙂

Thanks!