Just installed ROCK and almost everything went well 
however 1 thing is not going as expectedâŠ
On my MacBook running Sierra I cannot access the SMB share. ROCK is displayed in the âsharedâ tab but when I click the (pc) icon I get a message that the server does not exists or is currently inaccessible
edit: I can see the drive using âconnect to serverâ and then typing in the ip address and navigating to the storage folder.
@support is this normal? Itâs not really straightforward
Hi Steve,
Can you try to press CMD-K in Finder (or use Go > Connect to Server from the menus) and enter:
smb://rock/data
and press Connect:
When asked, connect as Guest.
If this fails, enter
smb://ip.address.of.rock/data
Hi @RBM connect to server using ip address and then navigating to the storage works but smb://rock/data gives the same error message
Thatâs probably your router not advertising the name â or maybe itâs just slow.
For now, just use the IP address. If it really bothers you, you can add
ip.address.of.rock rock
to the /etc/hosts file on your Mac.
I hoped smb://rock/data⊠would work as the ip address could always change in the future and then I have to add it again.
For now I added the it to my start up items and I can connect as a registered user using GUEST as name
You can get around it by reserving the IP address in your router.
Try rock.local instead of just rock
Running Sierra 10.12.5 Beta on a MacBook Pro and the Roon SMB share shows up and is accessible with no issues.
Did not have to map to it or anything. Nice work guys!
Hi @danny,
unfortunately this is not working⊠same error server does not exists or is currently inaccessible
the rock.local thing is not working⊠but rock should be working if you on a mac or windows machine
Hi @danny,
Both rock and rock.local are not working. I can only connect using the ip address.
Iâm on a macbook pro running Sierra. In finder I can see ROCK as a share and can click on the icon (pc). However I cannot connect to the server. The error that I receive is that the server does not exists or is currently inaccessible.
Steve
can roon find it and can you get to the web gui the ip?
Sure. Roon finds it and I can accesss the server in finder using the ip address but only using the ip address. Device name does not work. Also ROCK is visible as a bonjour device (pc icon) but inaccessible
I donât know if this matters or not, but I have my router assign the NUC that ROCK Is running on a static IP address.
I realize this should not make a difference.
hi @Arie_van_Boxel,
Did a restart of the Airport Extreme⊠alas 
Thanks for the suggestion though. It was worth a shot
Hi @stevev1 â Thank you for the report and the continued feedback, both are very appreciated!
Moving forward, to help aide in our evaluation of this behavior you are experiencing, may I very kindly ask you to please provide the following information:
A brief but accurate description of your current setup as seen here.
Please provide the details of your network configuration/topology as well as providing further insight into any networking hardware you are implementing. Based on the information provided thus far, I see you are using an Airport Extreme but would like to have a broader understanding of what the chain of communication looks like across your network.
-Eric
ugh, this router⊠it does no local dns and its netbios resolution stinks.
well itâs what I use and likely many others as well âŠ
