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using NAS with Sonos

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June 4, 2021
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I’ve pretty much uploaded all of my music to my WDPR2100 NAS. Well at least on the tail end. It’s taking me over a week to figure it out and to copy to NAS. So I’m trying to figure out how to use my NAS to play music on Sonos now. I’m not having much luck. I’ve searched here and found a few old post. One post took me to this...https://support.sonos.com/s/article/78?language=en_US. I followed the directions on my Windows laptop and and my iPhone. Took me a few try’s on the iPhone to get to the Next button. I typed in \\y:mycloudpr2100\music and Next highlighted finally. But when I hit Next I get the message The computer y:mycloudpr2100 cannot be found. I tried my user name and password and still same message. Do I need to configure this on my Windows laptop first before my iPhone? What am I missing here?

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Best answer by Dcgman#1

Update: after a nice long ipa, dinner break and tv time with the wife, I dove back in. Reading up more on the WD MyCloud community site I went back to my WD dashboard and changed a couple more settings and triple checking to make sure SMBv1 was on. There was a change in settings when you upgrade from My Cloud OS3 to OS5. Both NTLMv1 & SMBv1 has to be enabled. My SMBv1 already was. I enabled NTLMv1. After a couple more attempts in Music Library setup I get an Update Music Index Now. It was updating for 30 minutes when I went to bed. Woke up this morning and low and behold on my iPhone I guess it worked because I have the shared folder //mycloudpr2100/music along with old Mac and iTunes folder! So how do I play my NAS music library on my Sonos? I already have the My Cloud Home installed on my iPhone. Nothing happens when I open it up. No music folders/files to be found. Empty. I thought that is the app you use to play from NAS to Sonos?

Ken_Griffiths

Sonos uses the older SMBv1 protocol for sharing the library, so you probably need to change your NAS settings so that the NAS share supports that.

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Headliner I

Sonos uses the older SMBv1 protocol for sharing the library, so you probably need to change your NAS settings so that the NAS share supports that.

That was my be of the first things I did when I was in my NAS settings. I selected all 3, SMBv1, 2

& 3.

Belly M

The path you are using is incorrect / illegal, drop the “y:” and try again.

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Dcgman#1Author

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The path you are using is incorrect / illegal, drop the “y:” and try again.

I dropped (y:) and typed in \\mycloudpr2100\music, user name and password and I get access denied check user name and password. I thought maybe I typed wrong password but when I opened up on my iPad browser with user name and password I have access to my music files.

Belly M

Can you connect to \\mycloudpr2100\music using file explorer or whatever it’s called nowadays in Windows. In the utility you used to configure the NAS the name is mycloudpr2100 ?

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Dcgman#1Author

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Can you connect to \\mycloudpr2100\music using file explorer or whatever it’s called nowadays in Windows. In the utility you used to configure the NAS the name is mycloudpr2100 ?

Yes. I’m in it now uploading the rest of my music folders to NAS, MyCloudpr2100. While it’s uploading I’ve been trying to figure out how to use my NAS on my Sonos with my iPad and iPhone. I knew going into this NAS thing it was going to take me some time as I am completely new to it. But I’ve figured out how to get my music library from from old Mac to new Windows laptop to NAS.

Belly M

The music folder on the NAS is shared? in other words when you connect to \\mycloudpr2100\music you do then have tonavigate into the music folder.

beyond that try a router power cycle and then a restart of the NAS (best to use the WD utility to do this). Double check SMB 1 is still turned on,

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Dcgman#1Author

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The music folder on the NAS is shared? in other words when you connect to \\mycloudpr2100\music you do then navigate into the music folder.

beyond that try a router power cycle and then a restart of the NAS (best to use the WD utility to do this). Double check SMB 1 is still turned on,

If you mean shared as shared with pubic? No. When I first created the folder I named it music and another one for photos. Both are not shared to the public. But when opened it does navigate into the music file when I opened it up on my iOS (iPhone/iPad). I can see the music files being downloaded to MyCloud disk going from the Windows to NAS drive. I can’t power down the router right now as I’m still trying to finish up the music upload to NAS. I have over 64,000 files to transfer and more on another external hard drive I’ll do later. Just want to get most of my music in NAS to make sure everything works.

Belly M

Try just \\mycloudpr2100 and see what happens.

Do you have 64,000 music tracks?

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Dcgman#1Author

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Try just \\mycloudpr2100 and see what happens.

Do you have 64,000 music tracks?

Yes. But 90% of it has been transferred to NAS already. I tried to transfer all of it at one time a couple of days ago and it kept stopping and I’d have to start over from where the last song took on my NAS. So I regrouped and started to go by alphabetically. I’m on the U & W’s right now. I started early this morning at 5 on the D’s. Maybe I’m doing it all wrong? But it seems to be transferring so far. Lol. I’m not that computer savvy for sure. But I think I’m getting it. I still have to do all my photos. After I can get my NAS playing on my Sonos first.

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