Synology Disk Station Manager 7.0 Now Live - [Solved: Roon supported on a working beta version]

[BlackJack]

The root account is the equivalent of Administrator on Windows (God → is allowed to do anything, has access to all data).

@Steven_Hansen

What does that mean to the users of Roon?

That’s described in the post I linked:

@Roon Server on Synology DSM 7 Situation

By default an app is executed as its own user. This user has no permissions to read or write any files on the Diskstation. Because of that, you’ll be asked during installation where to store Roon Server’s database and in which shared folder your music files are stored. This is required to give Roon Server permissions to write in its specified database directory and read access to your music files (Roon Server will have no permissions to write or modify files in your specified music shared folder. Yay!!)

In Roon’s browser you can only browse your specified music directory. If you need access to other folders, you can give Roon Server access to it. You just need to go to Control Panel → Shared Folders, select the shared folder and click Edit. Go to the Permissions-tab and switch from “Local Users” to “System Internal User”. There you can give read or write permissions to the RoonServer user.

Before, the app and therefore Roon, were installed as root (God; read/write permissions for the whole system) → no need to configure access rights to folders for Roon to work.