ejn1 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Hi, Moving away from my Synology NAS to a custom built FreeNAS 11.3 NAS/Server. Everything great aside from my music library now not working with my C4. Understand from old threads it may be due to C4 using SMB1 protocol vs FreeNAS on SMB2? I tried installing a Plex Server on my FreeNAS but wasn't thrilled with the DLNA option to C4. My music is large library of mostly HighRez (20,000+ songs). Any other tricks out there than I'm missing? Last resort is to try a USB drive directly to my EA3 controller. Is this a solid option if I cant get a viable NAS solution? Ever since I took @SMHarman advice and picked up a used C4 audio matrix connected to my B&K multiroom amp, I've been extremely happy with the C4's OS3 audio streaming so eager to get my library back connected to my system. C4 even replaced my Auralic streaming solution which is extremely solid so a big compliment to C4's progression on streaming. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Köhler Medientechnik Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 SMB1 is disabled on freeNAS by default (for good reason). You need to re-enable and then it should work: https://eric-poon.blogspot.com/2019/01/freenas-111-u63-enable-smb-v1.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejn1 Posted October 4, 2020 Author Share Posted October 4, 2020 5 hours ago, Köhler Medientechnik said: SMB1 is disabled on freeNAS by default (for good reason). You need to re-enable and then it should work: https://eric-poon.blogspot.com/2019/01/freenas-111-u63-enable-smb-v1.html Thanks, interesting that FreeNAS intentionally disabled SMB1 for security reasons but C4 still requires it for mounting a NAS Drive folder. Have you or anyone else tried putting a larger (eg 2TB) usb drive directly to a controller (EA3 in my case). Is this a viable and solid solution? Sounds like you can do it with a powered external drive but not sure folks views on it. Thx! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Köhler Medientechnik Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 36 minutes ago, ejn1 said: Thanks, interesting that FreeNAS intentionally disabled SMB1 for security reasons but C4 still requires it for mounting a NAS Drive folder. Yep, security awareness is not one of the major priorities of home automation companies - it makes intgeration more complex and can affect user experience if things go wrong. So they tend to keep it to the lowest level... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destroyer of Worlds Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Weirdly my connection from Control4 to TrueNAS (as it's now known) is behaving badly. I checked TrueNAS: 1) SMB service has checked allow SMB1 2) Sharing for Audio folder on NAS has IP of C4 enabled and is guest, guest only as aux params 3) In C4, Network File Storage under Monitoring / Properties of it has location with ... to select. I can see my share, select my Audio folder. 4) On TrueNAS all Audio is owned by Guest/Guest and was given recursively to match SMB sharing of it as guest, guest only 5) Even tried to make Control4/Control4 owner of Audio and use Control and password for the connection. 4) and 5) result in no connection "offline". So I cannot get to my audio in C4 and all DLNA options are horrible (either no search, or constant app dropping). Ironically I can connect to my NAS audio from any PC/Mac that has it's IP as permissioned in the SMB sharing. So that's why C4 can see it and select it. Somehow it just cannot connect to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Unless you have an absolutely huge amount of music the USB stick option seems like a good options since you can get 256GB USB drives for so cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 disagree - DLNA is the best option ekohn00 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destroyer of Worlds Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Disagree about DLNA. For USB I have a 2TB FAT32 with Lossy and Lossless music - currently copying music from NAS to it to plug into C4. For DLNA - my options are (mostly due to having TrueNAS): 1. Plex DLNA - Good, but no "search" capability exists. You cannot search for an artist, song, or album at all. 2. MiniDLNA - Terrible, as I tried this and with others in TrueNAS forums, it's rife with memory issues. It constantly crashes and has to be restarted. It's also end of life, so no support. 3. Emby - Redundant with Plex as they are same purpose. DLNA "might" be better there, but won't beat a USB thumb drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejn1 Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 On 11/2/2021 at 6:11 AM, Destroyer of Worlds said: Weirdly my connection from Control4 to TrueNAS (as it's now known) is behaving badly. I checked TrueNAS: 1) SMB service has checked allow SMB1 2) Sharing for Audio folder on NAS has IP of C4 enabled and is guest, guest only as aux params 3) In C4, Network File Storage under Monitoring / Properties of it has location with ... to select. I can see my share, select my Audio folder. 4) On TrueNAS all Audio is owned by Guest/Guest and was given recursively to match SMB sharing of it as guest, guest only 5) Even tried to make Control4/Control4 owner of Audio and use Control and password for the connection. 4) and 5) result in no connection "offline". So I cannot get to my audio in C4 and all DLNA options are horrible (either no search, or constant app dropping). Ironically I can connect to my NAS audio from any PC/Mac that has it's IP as permissioned in the SMB sharing. So that's why C4 can see it and select it. Somehow it just cannot connect to it. I have my C4 pulling my library from a TrueNAS device. It’s working FYI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjh Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Try putting twonky on your nas. I have an asustor nas with twonky connected to c4. Works great and much better dlna integration than Plex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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