I cannot get my Raspberry pi to show up on samba please help
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"It just won't show up on the network" -> Ok, just to clarify that one: Do you mean by opening the Network View with Windows Explorer? Then that is, at least on all of my systems, normal behaviour.
I agree that this is how my system behaves as well. The Network Explorer in Windows probably relies on some network advertising protocol that linux systems don't use to announce themselves by default. Even on Windows 10 systems you have to enable that setting in the file sharing settings.
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@ashpool I cannot see the raspberry pi on the network explorer file using the IP address or the other way but I can create a file shortcut that shows it but I cannot use the shortcut for skraper
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@supppp You've lost me there... how are you creating a shortcut if you cannot access the pi from within the explorer? Couldn't you (to get a usable workaround for your case) map a network drive or create a symlink instead? Btw. I am not a user of "Skraper", but ain't you supposed to enter the path to retropies config/romfolder from within skraper in the way \\<raspiIP>\<sambafolder> (example: \\192.168.0.42\configs )?
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@ashpool yes I do not know how that works but I can create a shortcut but not see it on the network file
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@supppp how do I create a symlink?
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@supppp As you want to link a folder: (I think it is better to run cmd as admin in this case, as there my be some group policies preventing the creation of a symlink over network for regular users)-> mklink /d <path to link that is to be created> <path to target>
Example:F:\TMP>mklink /d roms \\192.168.1.21\roms symbolische Verknüpfung erstellt für roms <<===>> \\192.168.1.21\roms -
@ashpool explain ho0w to do this to a newbe plz or link a video
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symbolische Verknüpfung erstellt für is this german should I translate it to english
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@supppp run cmd with admin privileges (C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe), go to your desired target location (typing <drive letter>: to change partitions, cd <pathname> to go to the "parent" folder for the links, and then look at the code block in my previous message ->
that one created a symlink named roms in F:\TMP that linked to the roms folder from my retropies samba-shares...But in the end - if you can create the link, I am not understanding why a simple \\IP\ won't work... once again: HOW did you created the shortcut? And have you tried to enter \\IP\folder within skraper (for configs and roms) ?
Edit: IMPORTANT! to remove the symlink use rmdir from the console, don't delete the folder (AFAIK it will delete the linked to folder&content, whereas rmdir just kills the symlink)!
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@ashpool yes and i created the shortcut by right-clicking on my computer then going to map shocut i think and it showed up there but not on the network file
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@supppp Ok, do me a favour: right-click the shortcut, open its "Properties" and post the values you found in the "Target"- and "Start in"-field.
Edit: and yes, "symbolische Verknüpfung erstellt" is german, that was the message from mklink that it created the symbolic link...
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ok i will do that
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@supppp if you right-clicked the shortcut you created and opened its "Properties" from the right-click menu, then it should have openeda window with the properties for the "file" and on the page of the (pre-selected) tab "shortcut", there are two entries named Target and Start-in and I want to know what's listed there simply to understand what you created as a shortcut.
P.S.: the Docs for mklink
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@ashpool i could only find the target field here's what's in it \192.168.0.147\configs
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@supppp i did it some how thank you guys for your help
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@supppp nvm
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