...have seen a few posts in the forum about SMBv1 and sonos systems....recently moved to TrueNas core and SMBv1 stopped working, upgraded to RC1... unfortunately Sonos still cant connect no matter what ACL's are set, shares are set (Guest etc) and have tried simple usernames + PW for troubleshooting.
- I would not allow a SONOS to connect to your Free/TrueNAS. To allow it, you need to downgrade your SMB security to SMB1, NTLM v1. This is a really bad idea, as it downgrades SMB security across the entire NAS to levels that Ned Pyle at MS (Principal Program Manager in the Windows Server Engineering Group) declared as unsafe 5 years ago.
- If you are dead-set on running your Sonos off your iTunes collection, I would set up a copy on a burner NAS. I use a Raspberry Pi with a 2TB drive to serve up content to the SONOS. It's a canary in the coal mine, likely the first server to get hacked due to its crummy, low security. I simply copy the contents of my FreeNAS share to the burner NAS whenever I add more iTunes content.
- If you do not want to use a burner NAS for Sonos content, please consider installing Plex on the FreeNAS instead. It offers better security and a larger index count than Sonos does natively and at least Plex is being maintained (unlike Sonos' NAS-centric software stack).
Given all the issues with SONOS and telemetry, forced updates, equipment bricking, etc. I limit my SONOS' access to the internet severely (thank you pi-Hole). My Zone Players can only contact the sslvalidator server at Sonos (all other subdomains remain blocked) and TuneIn internet radios. For example, despite turning off tracking, each zone player attempts to contact the mothership hundreds of times per day. Never mind the 8.5+ FW debacle where Sonos purposely bricked functional CR100 hardware.
While Sonos may have been focused on NAS integration in the early days, their corporate focus is 100% on streaming now. In the last five years, they were blindsided by the quick entry of Google, Amazon, and Apple into their sphere and went from being a leader in a comfortable, high-margin niche to being a puny competitor who couldn't charge the same margins anymore since the big three were willing to sell their gear at or below cost to buy market share.
IMO, Sonos was subsequently positioned / shopped as an acquisition play by one of the big 3, (which is why they tried to jettison everything now covered by the S1 firmware stack), made their products broadly compatible, etc. and when that didn't happen, they pivoted again to the next shiny object, i.e. content creation. Thanks but no thanks. I love my Sonos hardware but the Sonos upper company management is a hot dumpster fire.
