BlackJack,
This is how I have a Roon folder set for sharing on my iMac (macOS 13.6.1):
Which I’m thinking I ought to be trying to get to via smb:
I’m sorry if I’m missing the obvious.
I’m going to experiment with a USB thumb drive formatted at ExFat in the meantime.
But I’d really like to be able to backup my Roon database to my iMac directly. Thanks to you and Jim, I can see that’s the way to go. But I can’t get the SMB syntax still.
You obviously miss the share name (probably: old Roon) as well as username and password.
Note: A share name containing a space character may make things complicated as you may have to mask/encode it. I don’t know for sure, test it or simply remove the space to make life easier.
BlackJack,
I wondered about that.
Changed to
smb:///Users/mark/Music/oldRoon
which still fails.
So it must be:
How do I add those, please?
Why do you expect that to work?
According to your screenshots try:
smb://192.168.0.170/old Roon or smb://192.168.0.170/old%20Roon as it seems you like to insist on using a share with a space
Look at your screenshot above or the example in the linked help article, there is a input field labeled accordingly for each in the “Add network share” dialog window in Roon.
Got it. Thanks, BlackJack
I kept getting invalid path because I actually had removed the space between ‘old’ and ‘Roon’ and so the share was no longer valid.
Nor did I realize that I didn’t need the full path to the shared folder.
All OK now.
Very much appreciated.
Happy Holidays to you and yours 
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