SMB mount failing with "UnexpectedError" on Roon (ref#PELXCM)

[willcoggins]

Hi! What’s not quite right with Roon?

· None of the above quite fits

None of the above quite fits

· None of these quite match

Tell us what's going on

· SMB mount failing with "UnexpectedError"

Tell us about your home network

· Share sits on a truenas server, roon core is running on a clean debian install.

[willcoggins]

For additional information: this mount succeeds with no problem if I do it manually via fstab / cifs with the same credentials. I also get a different error message “share not found” if I instead type an incorrect share. There is no information in the server logs for any failure

[BlackJack]

Hello @willcoggins and welcome to the forum.

Maybe the same as this one?

RoonServer can't connect to SMB share on Debian Trixie (ref#RABO0B)[Ticket in]

Hi, This seems to fix the scanning issue, Upgraded Roonserver from Debian Bookworm to Trixie, some caveats . You have to install the icu-devtools package. It has probabely something to do with localization and file/date orders, that’s my best explanation. So another ‘dependency’ for roon to work properly. I installed it on my debian box and since then the scanning for new music is still working. The SMB mount option is still broken, can’t mount anything via the roon-interface.For now I mount e…

[willcoggins]

Thanks BlackJack, it does look related though I see different errors in the CIFS logs when attempting to mount through roon. Honestly if I could just schedule forced rescans every x timeframe for “local” folders I’d be happy as I could just do an os level mount through fstab.

[BlackJack]

Restarting your Roon Server service will trigger a rescan and you probably can figure out how to schedule a service restart.

[Edwin_Muskee (Edwin M)]

I reverted my roonserver back to ubuntu lts 2024. Couldn’t get it stable on a clean debian install with associated kernel and since there was no reaction from roon for a couple of weeks I decided to go back to something that has proven to work.

On Ubuntu I did a fstab mount, scanning works, watching in realtime for added music also. Mounting another directory on my nas works for the database backups etc etc.

[alex_h (Alex)]

Hi @willcoggins,

Thanks for reaching out.

@BlackJack made a great point, and our team is indeed working on the issue for some time already.

Could you please let us know if you were able to successfully mount your NAS to Roon Server after switching to Ubuntu?

Thanks for your help with this.

[Edwin_Muskee (Edwin M)]

Yes, I’ve mounted the same synology share on ubuntu lts204 without issues. Also mounted a smb share from a openmediavault server via the roon interface without issues.

Before I switched to the latest debian I also ran roonserver on a ubuntu 2024 lts box.

In the end I decided to mount the synology via fstab, because you don’t have to wait or start a manual scan when you add new music files. The backup-share is still mounted via the roon-interface and the database backups are 100% succesfull.

As a extra info, also tried a minimal arch linux install, same issues with mounting smb shares via the roon interface.

[alex_h (Alex)]

@Edwin_Muskee ,

Thanks for providing additional piece of observations on this matter.

We would recommend you then to stay on Ubuntu for now until the problem with other distributions is solved.

Once this problem is solved you’ll be able to spot this in Release notes of new Roon versions.

Have a nice day and Enjoy your music!

[willcoggins]

Thanks all. I moved the install over to ubuntu server lts and everything seems to be working fine.