Add a network share issue (Roon on Audiolinux)

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Running Roon server on Audiolonux I cannot add a network share within Roon, I get an “Unexpected error” red message all the time.

Network share location, user and password are all fine and used to work before. I believe the issue started after I did ArchLinux system update via Audiolinux menu.

My network share is on the Synology NAS, the Synology logs say that a client is trying to connect via SMB1 protocol and the NAS rejects such connections, which is weird as SMB1 should not be used by Roon. SMB2 and SMB3 work fine if I connect to my shares right in Audiolinux command prompt (smbclient).

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Else, your password might be too complicated (containing special character{s} Roon doesn’t support) or the share is already mounted on the PC and the OS thus refuses to mount it again. That is all that comes to my mind right ahead given the non-descriptive error message.

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I have the same issue, but have a workaround:

  1. I mount the NAS drive in Audiolinux
    REMOTE
    //192.168.0.57/Roon on /media/synology1 type cifs HARD DISK:
    LOCAL
    NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT FSSIZE FSAVAIL
    sda
    └─sda1 ext4 Music 1de3b52b-fe31-486c-8a95-a5753c8895e1 /media/linux1 3.6T 1.5T
    sdb
    └─sdb1 ext4 Music-2 7109d955-4dee-4ce1-9bcc-48ee3ea8c078 /media/linux2 3.6T 1.8T
    nvme0n1
    ├─nvme0n1p1 vfat D37C-FA06 /boot 487M 280.9M
    ├─nvme0n1p2 ext4 61e28594-8844-4422-b5db-8d88adcf4eb1 / 228.6G 199.8G
    └─nvme0n1p3 ext4 music 0a748345-1138-4945-a814-15133c66f931 /media/data1 228.2G 186.3G

REMOTE
//192.168.0.57/Roon on /media/synology1 type cifs (rw,relatime,vers=2.0,cache=strict,upcall_target=app,username=…,uid=1000,forceuid,gid=1000,forcegid,addr=192.168.0.57,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755,soft,nounix,serverino,mapposix,reparse=nfs,nativesocket,symlink=native,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,bsize=1048576,retrans=1,echo_interval=60,actimeo=1,closetimeo=1,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.requires=network-online.target,x-systemd.mount-timeout=60s)

  1. But this is not enough, in fact you have to make this disk ‘active’ .
    Easy to do: in Audiolinux, I take a Roon backup to that disk.

After that, no problem for Roon to find the NAS and to find music/make backups there.

You have to repeat this if you reboot Audiolinux.

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No, password has no special chars.
The same share is mounted on the audiolinux pc via nfs (I use it for LMS).That used to work fine for me for monthes until something happened.

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If it is already mounted, use that mount and don’t try to it mount again. Mixing SMB and NFS on the same share is asking for trouble anyway in my opinion. If you mean that even the NFS share no longer works for some reason (“something happened”), investigate that something maybe? Contact Audiolinux support to help you figure out what something may have happened (an update maybe?).

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Audiolinux mounted NFS share still works fine, I use it for Roon as well as a workaround. No issue with Audiolinux.

I’ve asked Audiolinux support what could be the reason for this Roon error, he replied there might be a bug in Roon.

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If you intend to report a bug, please open a support ticket:

Note: There is no widespread issue regarding SMB mounts with Roon Server for Linux I know of.

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It may use the same mount point on the server’s file system, but it’s not the same share. However, if NFS is working on the same machine as Roon server, then that would be a far better method to access your library than CIFS.