I cannot get my Raspberry pi to show up on samba please help

Ashpool

@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 )?

supppp

@ashpool yes I do not know how that works but I can create a shortcut but not see it on the network file

supppp

@supppp how do I create a symlink?

Ashpool

@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

supppp

@ashpool explain ho0w to do this to a newbe plz or link a video

supppp

symbolische Verknüpfung erstellt für is this german should I translate it to english

Ashpool

@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)!

supppp

@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

Ashpool

@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...

supppp

ok i will do that

Ashpool

@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

supppp

@ashpool i could only find the target field here's what's in it \192.168.0.147\configs

supppp

@supppp i did it some how thank you guys for your help

supppp

@supppp nvm