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Disabling Network Sharing RetroPie

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    turnerl
    last edited by 9 Apr 2018, 02:18

    Hi all,
    Sorry for this stupid question i'm pulling my hair out. How can I disable network sharing in retropie? I just discovered my 9 year old sons mac list the retropie roms and other important folders *sigh. I'm hoping he hasn't accidentally deleted anything!

    Thanks, Luke.

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      mediamogul Global Moderator @turnerl
      last edited by 9 Apr 2018, 02:47

      @turnerl

      You can comment out all the shares in /etc/samba/smb.conf. For example,

      Change:

      [roms]
      comment = roms
      path = "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms"
      writeable = yes
      guest ok = yes
      create mask = 0644
      directory mask = 0755
      force user = pi
      

      To:

      #[roms]
      #comment = roms
      #path = "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms"
      #writeable = yes
      #guest ok = yes
      #create mask = 0644
      #directory mask = 0755
      #force user = pi
      

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        turnerl
        last edited by 9 Apr 2018, 02:55

        thanks mediamogul , i had changed guest access from yes to no on each share. It now asks for password when trying to connect.

        Cheers,
        Luke.

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          turnerl
          last edited by 9 Apr 2018, 03:04

          I cant understand why they enable guest access w/r share by default???

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            mitu Global Moderator @turnerl
            last edited by 9 Apr 2018, 05:08

            @turnerl Because this is the easiest way to transfer your ROMs to the Pi system. Since this is a gaming dedicated system, it makes sense to make this operation as easy as possible.

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