Roon server reports invalid network path when accessing NAS (ref#PC9LEC)

What’s happening?

· Other

How can we help?

· I'm having trouble adding music to my library

Other options

· Other

Describe the issue

Roon server can’t access my NAS,always report invalid network path.

Describe your network setup

Router+Modem->Core Switch-> Edge Switch/AP
Router+Modem is ISP device
Core Switch (connected with NAS) is UniFi Enterprise 8 POE
AP (connected with Mac through wifi) is Unifi U6 Pro
NAS is Zspace (one Chinese brand)

or the location options,following are tried and failed:
smb://192.168.1.169/music
smb://192.168.1.170/music(the second network ports)
\\192.168.1.170\music
\\192.168.1.169\music
\\Z4Pro-SSGJ\music.
for all six options, using admin username with password also failed

It can be a little intimidating to get all the parameters exactly right, @ming_lei :slight_smile: .

Does this thread help?

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Appreciate for suggestion,but my situation is a little different with the thread metioned,which is about network share from Mac,mine is from NAS. the Mac(roon on it) can access the NAS share,actually Roon is the only app cant. Very strange about the error info : invalid network path, n

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If you are running Roon on your Mac under Sequoia, have you followed all the recent threads about going into your privacy and security settings to allow Roon to access network shares, etc.?

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Hi @ming_lei ,

Welcome to the forum. If you are not able to connect to the NAS at all, and it sounds like you used the correct parameters, then I would try to see if the NAS web configuration provides any option about Samba (SMB) shares, and make sure that the setting is turned on. If SMB is not turned on, then Roon won’t be able to connect to the share.

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Understood, Ming; Just that - as others say - in all cases experimenting with the exact syntax (IP addresses, direction of slashes, naming or paths, paying attention to UPPER/lower case and their combinations) did the trick for me (and several others) frustrating though it may seem. Worth persevering?

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