Let me begin by saying this has been an unpleasant journey. I have spent 20 hours trying to setup Roon to work with my system.
Here are the particulars
• Mac Mini M2
• QNAP TS251+
• Meridian Sooloos
• Audio Note amp
• Audio Note speakers
The goal:
• Setup the Mac Mini M2 to be the Roon core (not the server)
• Setup the Mac Mini M2 to connect to the NAS Sooloos storage
The attempts:
I have downloaded and installed and uninstalled Roon 4 times.
I have tried smb and host
I have tried
smb://Abbey/DataVol1/Sooloos
Nothing
smb://192.168.1.144/DataVol1/Sooloos
Nothing
smb://192.168.1.144/Sooloos
Nothing
\Abbey\DataVol1\Sooloos
Nothing
\192.168.1.144\DataVol1\Sooloos
Nothing
\192.168.1.144\Sooloos
Nothing
I have renamed the QNAP
Nothing
I have blown up and recreated the house network
Nothing
Are there Mac Mini to Qnap security settings that I need to change?
Please note the reason I am doing this is the HP Touchscreen and Roon were so fickle that some days the computer would see the NAS and some days it took 4 or 5 restarts to find it. (My wife gave up and quit listening to music).
I am exasperated with this experience.
I have wonderful home stereo system that with CDs provides marvelous sound.
Support from Roon has not been great. Yes you can revoke my membership and black list me, but given the state I am in it won’t matter as I will get rid of Meridian and simply use CDs. I am fine with that.
Roon core and Roon server mean the same thing. Just so you know. Why don’t you stop using the Sooloos and just use Roon? Install Roon Server on your Mac Mini M2 and use a laptop, phone, and/or tablet as Roon control. You can load your music files on an attached SSD or your NAS.
I suppose you are referring to this thread, which was posted in the discussion area for users, Roon Software Discussion, under the QNAP/Synology NAS sub-category, but be aware that this is not for official support:
(Anyway, your last post was that you got it to work with the IP address for the NAS. What has changed?)
Did you use DHCP address reservation on the router to provide the fixed addresses or did you set up the fixed addresses directly on the devices? If directly on the devices, did you exclude these fixed addresses from DHCP assignment on the router to ensure the router doesn’t assign them to some other device?
Each time I remove Roon, then re-install it always finds current Roon information. For example, the Tidal albums I have saved.
I have tried entering the Network settings every way I can think of. But, it always fails.
When Roon works which is infrequently for me I enjoy using it. When it doesn’t and I look at he hi-fi gear waiting to be used I consider going back to CDs and adding a turntable.
We’d be happy to assist. First off, however, you seem to have installed RoonServer on several machines in this setup (including a PC and the NAS) rather than just on the Mac Mini.
Was your original intention to migrate your RoonServer instance from another machine onto the Mac Mini?
You’ll need to find and delete those additional RoonServer databases. Follow the process below both on your PC and on your QNAP to delete the two erroneous RoonServer folders.
Reviewing available diagnostics from the previous Windows RoonServer instance, this storage location is password protected with Admin permissions and an assigned Workgroup. Have you tried either changing the permissions on this location, and are you positive you’re entering the correct credentials?
If you’re running an Ubuntu server on this QNAP, then I would verify that this machine is set to use SMB3 and not maximizing at SMB1.
Navigate to the /etc/samba/smb.conf file and make sure that client max protocol = SMB3_10.
Where is the old Windows server instance connected in your network topology? You’ve mentioned that the Mac Mini and NAS are both hardwired directly to the router. You’ve also mentioned that you have three entirely separate networks at this location. It will illuminate the problem more fully and better equip our team to assist if you more completely describe your network architecture, including where and how the hardware is connected.
Hi,
if you are accessing the NAS:soolos folder from mac you might want to check that its a shared folder in your qnap. You find it under control panel/Shared folder.
Definitely double-check your shared folder settings on the QNAP side, as well as on the Mac side - here’s a helpful article outlining settings via your Mac:
Through a lot of hit and miss trying this and that I finally got the Mac Mini to connect with the QNAP. The solution was QNAP admin name and password. (I thought I had set things up to by-pass this.)
We’ve seen some issues with users who’ve recently updated to Mac Sequoia, and you may be in this bucket as well.
Can you please navigate to macOS System Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network , and make sure Roon is allowed. If it is already enabled, toggle it off and on again. Then reboot your Mac, and see if the same issue persists.