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    Trying to mount roms folder from a Synology NAS using NFS

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    • GreyAreaUKG
      GreyAreaUK
      last edited by

      Since you have 'Enable advanced share permissions' ticked, make sure you go into them and make sure the permissions are correctly set in there. My recollection is that the permissions there override the 'normal' permissions, and are unset by default.

      Might be wrong, but worth a check.

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      • ZangdaarrZ
        Zangdaarr
        last edited by

        I tried with the ipv6 and also the network alias "retropie" and both failed. I did not find how to get the ipv4 address for my retropie (and it's a bit upseting, in the past ipconfig was giving it)

        However on the mobaXterm screenshot, the ip is the one of my NAS, not the one of the pi. From my understanding, the NAS should receive a request from the provided ipv6 and accept it. It doesn't

        @ GreyAreaUK: I removed it since

        I also tried with cifs (using the retropie user created on the NAS) and it seems to work, except it does not find the <nasip>:/volume1/RetropieRoms folder (which exist and is case consistent)

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        • GreyAreaUKG
          GreyAreaUK @Zangdaarr
          last edited by GreyAreaUK

          @zangdaarr ah - try removing the 'volume1' aspect of the path. I don't think that's actually visible outside the NAS itself.

          Edit: although to be clear, I don't think I've ever manually mounted a share from my Synology via the command line, so I could well be wrong.

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          • windgW
            windg
            last edited by

            Does the router firewall affect the process ?
            With ifconfig from terminal you can see the ip.

            My English isn't at a good level.

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            • GreyAreaUKG
              GreyAreaUK
              last edited by GreyAreaUK

              Try instead:

              sudo mount -t cifs -o username=admin,password=password //10.1.1.30/RetropieRoms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms2

              and replace your username/password and IP with the correct values for you. And I created a 'roms2' folder for testing.

              Disclaimer: just tried it here on my own Synology. Seemed to work.

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @Zangdaarr
                last edited by

                @zangdaarr said in Trying to mount roms folder from a Synology NAS using NFS:

                and it's a bit upseting, in the past ipconfig was giving it)

                Hm, if only there was a Show IP menu that would should you the address...
                On Linux, there's no ipconfig, the corresponding command is ifconfig or ip -4 addr ls.

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                • ZangdaarrZ
                  Zangdaarr @mitu
                  last edited by Zangdaarr

                  @mitu I am not sure if your being sarcastic or not :D

                  I should be able to find the ipv4 address with the network mapping but I do not find the option in my windows settings.
                  ping always gave me the ipv4 address, I do not know why it suddenly changed.

                  Edit: found it: ping hostname -4

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                  • ZangdaarrZ
                    Zangdaarr @GreyAreaUK
                    last edited by Zangdaarr

                    @greyareauk

                    Do you know why it does that ?

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                    This one worked, don't really understand the difference between the two, and why it asked me for the password again

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                    However, I'd like to understand what's the issue with NFS is

                    Edit: I understood it, unix does not like spaces between options. Both commands are working fine

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                    • ZangdaarrZ
                      Zangdaarr @Zangdaarr
                      last edited by Zangdaarr

                      Fount it. For retropie:

                      • Do not enable asynchronous connections

                      • Even if the NAS allow for nfs v4, retropie won't allow it, so you need to use the nfsvers=3 option

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                      • mituM
                        mitu Global Moderator @Zangdaarr
                        last edited by mitu

                        @zangdaarr said in Trying to mount roms folder from a Synology NAS using NFS:

                        I am not sure if your being sarcastic or not :D

                        I kind of was. You have a menu in the RetroPie system which is titled Show IP, which does exactly that - displays the network address of your RetroPie system.

                        Glad you got it sorted out in the end.

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                        • ZangdaarrZ
                          Zangdaarr @mitu
                          last edited by

                          @mitu said in Trying to mount roms folder from a Synology NAS using NFS:

                          kind of was. You have a menu in the RetroPie system which is titled Show IP, which does exactly that - displays the network address of your RetroPie system.
                          Glad you got it sorted out in the end.

                          Well I didn't know it ! Thanks for letting me know :)

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