"Dosbox" mount c /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc doesn't exist

pcwii

I have searched the forum and have not found an answer to this problem.
I am running latest RetroPie on an RPi4.
I have mounted my roms directory from an SMB share on my NAS (this is working for other games).
When I attempt to mount c in Dosbox it fails to mount and indicates the path does not exist. If I ssh into the box I can confirm that the path does exist so I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I have attempted various dosbox cores with the same result.

From SSH

mitu

Can you post the mount options for the file share that you used on the RetroPie side ?

pcwii

@mitu I edited the autostart.sh based on these instructions...https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-Network-Share/
Here is my configuration.
sudo mount -t cifs -o vers=1.0 //192.168.0.250/storage/RetroPie /home/pi/RetroPie -o guest,uid=1000

Thanks for the assistance.

stoo

@pcwii Apart from the fact you have two -o switches in your mount line, looks fine to me.

As a test, I just created a new SMB share on my NAS box and mounted it with this line:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=myname,password=mypassword,nounix,noserverino //192.168.1.26/dosboxtest /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc

Then started DOSBox with the +Start DOSBox shell script and it automatically mounted /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/ no problem.

For read/write access (savegames etc.) I had to use the following:

sudo mount -t cifs -o sec=ntlmv2,username=myname,password=mypassword,rw,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,nounix,noserverino //192.168.1.26/dosboxtest /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc

If your NAS box doesn't limit you to SMB v1 you should remove vers=1.0 from your mount command. SMB v1 sucks. You can also use uid=pi as the uid option takes usernames as well as ids.

So for you with an anonymous connection you might try:

sudo mount -t cifs -o uid=pi,guest,nounix,noserverino //192.168.0.250/storage/RetroPie /home/pi/RetroPie

I am not an expert by any means. Someone who knows more about CIFS mount feel free to step in here. :D

pcwii

@stoo said in "Dosbox" mount c /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc doesn't exist:

sudo mount -t cifs -o uid=pi,guest,nounix,noserverino //192.168.0.250/storage/RetroPie /home/pi/RetroPie

I am not sure why (maybe the vers=1.0) but using your recommended mount worked perfectly. I appreciate all the assistance to get this sorted. I was definitely stumped on this one. Mark this as solved.