Using SONOS with Linux

I think my link posted earlier might be sufficient but not sure of that.

Hello Sonos friends

It seems, John is right. I am experiencing other access control issues.

It is likely result of me installing KDE on top of GENOME GUI and the two are fighting on seniority…

I am about to reinstall Kubuntu, clean and hope…

When done, I will report back here.

Before I go, must I install SAMBA? Until now, I didn't see a need for it, not clear.

Thank you all, again

Alex, Australia

I don’t have access to Ubuntu but the PI is based on Debian, maybe looking at the settings I use and then finding the config file on your setup would help. Edit and restart the Samba service.

Snip: 

The next change is to edit the Samba configuration file to allow SMB v1 and access to your music's mount point.

The whole /etc/samba/smb.conf file is kind of big and most sections don't apply. Here are the changes to the default Raspberry Pi file. NOTE: Without enabling SMB v1 with the "ntlm auth" option in [global] nothing will work with Sonos.

[global]
# enable v1 authentication for Sonos access
ntlm auth=yes

[music]
Comment = Pi shared folder
Path = /mnt/music
Browseable = yes
Writeable = Yes
only guest = no
create mask = 0555
directory mask = 0555
Public = yes
Guest ok = yes 

Edit, I got distracted and see that @Stanley_4  has already provided this information, but I’ll leave this up in case there’s something there that’s useful for you

If you want to share music files that are on that computer with Sonos you need samba.

To install, from a terminal enter: 

​ sudo apt update ​

then:

sudo apt install samba

Then to configure samba enter;

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

In global IIRC you need this for smb compatibility

min protocol = NT1
ntlm auth = yes
 

Then, while you still have smb.conf open, at the bottom of the config file you should add your share (though in your Ubuntu smb.conf it might not be the bottom). There are guides online for this like the one John linked to above, here’s a copy of what I have on my computer to help get you started. When you are done press ctrl+0 then ctrl+x to save and exit nano

#Share 
[Sonos]
path = /path/to/your/files
guest ok = no
read only = no
browseable = yes
inherit permissions = no
create mask = 0664
force create mode = 0664
directory mask = 0775
force directory mode = 0775
hide special files = yes
follow symlinks = yes
hide dot files = yes
 

If the folder is not made public (eg. guest access) then you have to set it up using your password.   I’d try using Stanley_4’s version and be sure to get the correct edit for your path  -  /media/New-SD-512/LP_Music