Cant Connect to SMB share

[Charlie_bird]

I just started with my new WiiM Pro Plus streamer. I'm trying to connect to existing SMB shares on my home network but cannot. I have factory reset the streamer and it is on the Wi Fi network ok. When I try to add a share from the Home app it simply says 'connection failed'.
- WiiM pro plus running Firmware 4.8.712055 (which seems like a beta release?). My unit is an ex store demo
- I've tried the hostname and IP address options ex. \\openmediavault\New_Music
- these are existing SMB shares that I can access from my windows 10 PCs and from my DVD player
- the shares don't require a username or password
- My media server is 'Openmediavault'. The shared folders are configured as "guest allowed" (user or PW not mandatory). I'm not seeing anything in the server logs that indicates a problem.
- I do have other streaming services configured on the WiiM and they work ok

Any guidance or help would be appreciated

 

[hgo58]

I just started with my new WiiM Pro Plus streamer. I'm trying to connect to existing SMB shares on my home network but cannot. I have factory reset the streamer and it is on the Wi Fi network ok. When I try to add a share from the Home app it simply says 'connection failed'.
- WiiM pro plus running Firmware 4.8.712055 (which seems like a beta release?). My unit is an ex store demo
- I've tried the hostname and IP address options ex. \\openmediavault\New_Music
- these are existing SMB shares that I can access from my windows 10 PCs and from my DVD player
- the shares don't require a username or password
- My media server is 'Openmediavault'. The shared folders are configured as "guest allowed" (user or PW not mandatory). I'm not seeing anything in the server logs that indicates a problem.
- I do have other streaming services configured on the WiiM and they work ok

Any guidance or help would be appreciated

Have you tried using:

//openmediavault/New_Music

The WiiM is not running Windows, so it's using standard URL format.

 

[Charlie_bird]

Have you tried using:

//openmediavault/New_Music

The WiiM is not running Windows, so it's using standard URL format.

Thanks I just tried that and no joy. BTW the examples in the app are like //openmediavault/New_Music

 

[harkpabst]

You don't have enabled SMB1 by any chance?

 

[simbun]

Thanks I just tried that and no joy. BTW the examples in the app are like //openmediavault/New_Music

I don't know if it's still the case but WiiM wouldn't connect to guest shares, so try adding a username and password (at least for testing).

 

[Pecka]

I can't get it to work either, trying to access my Mac mini from the Wiim via macOS file sharing.

Edit: seems one has to enable a user under Windows file sharing, now it works.

 

[LesE]

I've tried the hostname and IP address options ex. \\openmediavault\New_Music

Try adding .local to your hostname.

\\openmediavault.local\New_Music

I'm also running Open Media Vault and had the same issue.

 

[Charlie_bird]

You don't have enabled SMB1 by any chance?

My server has a setting for minimum SMB protocol version. It is set SMB1. I have changed this to SMB2 and I get the same failure.

 

[Charlie_bird]

Try adding .local to your hostname.

\\openmediavault.local\New_Music

I'm also running Open Media Vault and had the same issue.

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Thanks. I've just tried adding openmediavault.local and it it still fails (although not straight away like before). Do you use a user name and pw for your shares?

 

[LesE]

Thanks. I've just tried adding openmediavault.local and it it still fails (although not straight away like before). Do you use a user name and pw for your shares?

Yes I do.

 

[Charlie_bird]

ok thanks very much for the guidance. I think its all sorted out now. I had to append 'local' on the host name 'openmediavault.local' AND I had to create a user and gave that user access to my share. IMO the app is a bit misleading as the user and PW fields are optional even though it seems to be a mandatory requirement of the WiiM.

As a foot note once I had access to my shares I ran into this problem. Thus I ended up using the IP address of my server rather than openmediavault.local . A bit of a journey but I'm all set