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ianmj
Contributor I
April 10, 2018

Cannot connect my Raspberry Pi to my Sonos speakers

Please help!

The Problem: I am trying to add a new share to my iPad Sonos application, but cannot get it to link to my raspberry pi to play music.

I have loaded SMB via My OSMC and can play music from the Pi on my PC via my wired network.
Also, I have FileBrowser on my iPad and can play music from the raspberry on this too.
I have enabled UPnP on the Pi and my Sonos speakers are recognised in the Add Music browser

The Pi is called 'mediacenter', the HDD My Book and the file 'Music'.
I thought the path should be: \\mediacenter\My Book\Music, but this and every conceivable combination doesn't work, (with or without a space between My Book). I have tried using passwords, osmc/osmc & pi/raspberry and also using the Pi's IP Address.

I have tried every conceivable combination - what am I doing wrong!!

The equipment: Raspberry Pi Model 3 B+, (running a new install of OSMC), My Book HDD, (not my Cloud) connected via USB directly to the Pi
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    jrlink
    Contributor I
    October 10, 2018
    It does not mater what version of SMB you have installed! That is not the v1 we are talking about.

    What matters is if you have enabled SMB v1 / "ntlm auth" in the SMB program of whatever version you are using.

    Step by step:

    Open a terminal window on your PI to edit the file and restart the daemon.

    Type: cd /etc/samba
    Press Enter
    Type: sudo nano smb.conf
    Press Enter
    Scroll down to the [global] section
    On a blank line in that section type: ntlm auth=yes
    Press: CTRL-o
    Press Enter
    Press CTRL-x

    Next restart your smbd, the Samba / SMB daemon.
    Type: service smbd restart
    Press Enter

    Once it restarts you should be able to connect.
    jrlink
    Contributor I
    October 10, 2018
    Thank you. You solved my problem with ntlm=yes. I spent hours trying to get sonos to work before I found your post.
    dpc-123
    Lyricist II
    February 25, 2019
    I added the line but so far no luck. Now Win 10 isn’t seeing it on the network either but I connect to it. I am on week 3 of getting this to work.
    Stanley_4
    Stanley_4
    Grand Maestro
    February 25, 2019
    Have you done each step here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/samba-file-server

    Normally once SAMBA is installed and the Pi rebooted it is visible and can be connected to by Windows and other SMB using systems with no configuration aside from the [music] block. https://en.community.sonos.com/troubleshooting-228999/raspberry-pi-nas-with-sonos-configuration-issues-help-6805556#post16224521

    You don't need the 'ntlm auth=yes' for that, only for allowing access by legacy systems like Sonos.
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