Apple TV HD and SMB1

I have my media (audio and video) stored on NAS device (QNAP) and the NAS did a firmware upgrade that changed the minimum smb version accepted from 1 to 2. This immediately broke Home Sharing from my Mac to the Apple TV HD. Luckily I recalled that this changed and others were complaining to QNAP that other applications were breaking as well because of the change. I found a parameter on the QNAP server that reset the minimum smb version back to 1 and all is well now (mostly, Home Sharing is still a little flaky but getting better). So my question is, why did SMB 2 break Home Sharing to the Apple TV HD box?

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Posted on Oct 25, 2022 4:55 PM

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Urquhart1244

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Oct 25, 2022 7:26 PM in response to pgroebne

For Apple Home Sharing, the Apple TV box communicates with the Mac, and the Mac communicates with the NAS. The Apple TV doesn’t know about the NAS or SMB version, and is indifferent about that.

Try playing this NAS content in the TV app on Mac. I expect that to fail similarly. Fix that (re-link), and you’re good to go.

SMBv2 is with us for quite some time (since 2006), so I’m quite sure that Apple software supports the protocol.

If you are using third party home sharing, then contact that software publisher.

Rudegar

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Oct 26, 2022 2:13 AM in response to pgroebne

my synology nas have it's own appletv app have yet to have issues using that

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Apple TV HD and SMB1