Hi. I updated to a new Mac mini running seqouia last month. Everything transferred over without a problem. Roon is working great. I am one of those dinosaurs using version 1.8 (build 1151) and am very happy with it. The one problem I just discovered is that the Roon Rock (I built it using an I7 Nuc and a fan-less case 5 or so years ago), is not showing up on the network. My Roon clients see it, I can ping the address, I can connect using the web interface, but there is no drive on the local network I can access. If it uses samba that does not seem to be working. As a result I cannot open the Roon rock drive to transfer music my traditional way using carbon copy to update new files.
Any tips and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
From what you describe, this is not an accurate statement.
This is why the first quoted statement is not accurate. If you can ping the NUC and connected to the WebUI, then the NUC obviously is showing up on the network.
So this is the issue you are seeing.
With SMB shares, it is quite common for the share not to ‘automatically’ show up.
I am not familiar with Macs so I might not be the most appropriate person to help but I believe that if you open finder and enter smb://rock/Data/Storage, you should be able to see your internal storage folder and/or the folder represnting any USB disks attached to your NUC. If smb://rock/Data/Storage does not work, you could also try smb://<Roon Server ip address>/Data/Storage
When doing this for the first time, you may need to enter the ‘guest’/‘guest’ login and password combination.
I believe that you can also save this as a ‘network place’ which would make it easier to locate in the future.
For years I always had the samba connect show up on my finder. Never remember having to enter it.
I followed your suggestion using the open server option of finder. It gave me the option of joining as a guest or registered user. The latter would not respond to any password that I use with Roon or Mac but the guest setting worked fine.
Thanks for your much appreciated help. Sometimes what we don’t know makes a simple solution unduly difficult.
@Wade_Oram Hi, i’m struggling to get to the codecs directory from a Win 11 machine. i’m just getting the login page guest/guest doesn’t work. I can get to the data drive from a iPad but again guest guest doesn’t work. Using the Guest connection gets me in but I can’t write to the directory.
I’m upgrading from an older NUC so certainly managed before. I’ve read this might be a Win 11 issue
As @BlackJack suggests above, I suspect that the issue is that you are running Windows 11 24H2 which, as an additional security measure, has blocked guest access to SMB shares - which, unfortunately, include those provided by Nucleus and ROCK devices
The post that he linked to includes a link to the Microsoft Techcommunity article describing how to solve the issue. The first five steps of the ‘solution’ relate to changes to the SMB server which, on a Nucleus (or ROCK install) you cannot do. Thus, you need to follow steps 6 onwards to gain access to the Nucleus SMB share from your Windows 11 24H2 machine.
