I have Volumio on a Raspberry pi4. I have a Music Hard Drive on a PC. How to make Volumio find this music Hard Drive. I am using the free version of Volumio.Add New Drive is not finding the PC MUSICHARD DRIVE.
take a look at this topic;
I tried your suggestions for hours with no success. I am trying to install an “All Music Folder” which is in a Windows 11 PC in an SSD 1TB drive. Looks like I am the only one trying with Windows 11. I had Volumio on a rpi4 some years ago but abandoned it for poor response. 3 days lost… I will again have to quit trying. How could it be that Volumio does not offer specific instructions for Win 11 or at least say it does not work…
Or MS telling people in a simple way how their sharing works 
But I agree, it has become complicated over the years and Ian’s post covered most of it (Volumio Moderator at the time).
This is what I did to get it working:
- Created the folder with the music to share
- Right-clicked on the folder → Show more options → Properties → Sharing → Share
- Selected “Everybody” and pressed “Add”, close with “Share”, “Done”
- Giving access to “Everybody” is not enough though as Windows 11 forces password protected sharing. Therefore went to Control Panel → Network & Sharing Centre → Change advanced sharing settings
- Opened “All Networks” and disabled “Password-protected sharing”
This completed the windows-side settings.
For Volumio
- Opened the “Sources” menu
- Selected “Add New Drive”
- Entered an Alias
- Added the IP address of my Windows 11 PC
- Entered the name of the folder I shared (not the path, just the name of the folder I right-clicked on!)
- Entered a user and a password (this is MS, it does not matter what you enter, it is not going to be checked)
Done…
Btw. I edited your Topic title to reflect a Windows 11 issue.
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Thanks very much for the information. First try I missed to add Everybody… so, it didn’t work. I tried a couple times… Then I went back and added Everybody and Eureka it works. I am happy now.
Hello everyone, I installed volumio and after some initial problems, I didn’t wait the time required for the first installation, I configured the network without problems, for the moment I used the headphone output since I have a 30W amplifier from FOSi and I can hear the web radios without problems. The problem arose when I searched for musical content without finding anything, I thought volumio saw my PC as a multimedia device but it didn’t find it, then I indicated the path of both the folder where I have the audio files and then that of the disk, I gave sharing to the folder and the disk on win 11, I changed the advanced sharing settings and the windows 11 features by enabling SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing support, but even so nothing happens. Next to the network paths that I indicated, volumio reports the size of the files, I don’t think the disk because it is 1 TB and it shows me 68mb but under the active item it shows me an X. The disk is not active and in any case the scan does not see anything. Windows under the heading this PC/network does not see it as a multimedia device, only the TV and the same Volumio/raspberry is present. Do you have any suggestions?
I hope I was clear.
Thanks and to all
To start:
SMB V1.0 is by default disabled on WIndows 11. It’s outdated and has some serious security risks.
Please make sure you enter the correct path to your windows share. (IP and shared folder name, nothing else).
Also see 3 posts back from gkkpch
Ok so have I to disabled on W11 SMB v1.0?
If you enabled it yes, Volumio will automatically use V3.x
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I don’t know if on W11 need user name or it is my own configuration but when I have put it in the box it has begun to work
if you only setup a share under your user then Volumio need those credentials.
Yes but only user name and not password becouse I have disabled it on advanced sharing settings.