SMB share access

Linux and NAS
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Hi,
Concerning latest versions of Audirvana we can read this:

** SMB Shares Access: You can now add network folders (using SMB protocol) to the list of synchronized folders, directly from Audirvāna Remote. (Except on Synology and QNAP NAS. Requires upcoming Remote App release 5.2)*
** Other minor fixes*

I’m using Audirvana Studio 2.10.2 and Audirvana remote app 5.2, but I don’t know how to connect Audirvana to the SMB shared network folders. I can’t see any option on the remote app to do that. Is there something special to do to get this option?

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Which Linux version are you using?

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I’m using Audiolinux based on Archlinux.

4

When you start the software via terminal do you see an error in it?

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In Audiolinux, Audirvana is not started via the terminal.
Piero the developer of Audiolinux has apparently written his own script to start Audirvana.
I’m thinking about one thing, I’m not sure if the cifs-utils package is installed in Audiolinux. I suppose that this package is needed by Audirvana in this case.

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Exactly, we need mount.cifs in this case :wink:

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It still doesn’t work.
i’ve found Audirvana Studio log and I get 2 warning related to Samba Share:

2025-04-03 14:47:31.750 [warning]: SMB mount helper tool at /opt/audirvana/studio/smb_mount_helper does not have SUID permissions
2025-04-03 14:47:31.750 [warning]: Local Library Sync: Warning: mount.cifs is not available, mounting (accessing) SMB shares (e.g. from a remote NAS) is not available. Install the corresponding package (e.g. cifs-utils) and restart
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cifs-utils have been installed?

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Yes and it works when I mount manually a SMB folder using mount -t cifs… command.

10

Interesting, have you rebooted the device?

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Yes,
what is this permission problem?

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It seems to be a wrong install of SMB, can you try those commands?

sudo chown root:root /opt/audirvana/studio/smb_mount_helper

sudo chmod 4755 /opt/audirvana/studio/smb_mount_helper

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Thank you very much for the solution, Antoine, now it works.
Giving the same permission than mount and mount.cifs resolves the problem.
Is it a problem on Audirvana side or Audiolinux side?

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More on Audiolinux side

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Ok,
I will advise Piero.