[Solved] Issue running ROMS from network share

[Macaque]

Hi everyone, new user here, I'm trying to get my ROMs running from a network share using these instructions:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Running-ROMs-from-a-Network-Share

I'm going with option 1, add to autostart.sh. My NAS is a WDMyCloudEX4 if that makes any difference.

After making the config changes, they didn't have any effect and I didn't receive any error messages. So I tried running the command in the terminal to see what it says.

My command is:
sudo mount -t cifs -o guest,uid=pi //192.168.1.13/Public/Games/retropie/roms /home/pi/Retropie/roms

I see the message:
Couldn't chdir to /home/pi/Retropie/roms: No such file or directory exists

Does anyone know what is going on? I'm not so familiar with Linux so I don't know if it's telling me it can't see the network share or if the local folder doesn't exist.

Thanks.

[backstander]

@Macaque said in Issue running ROMS from network share:

sudo mount -t cifs -o guest,uid=pi //192.168.1.13/Public/Games/retropie/roms /home/pi/Retropie/roms

Linux is case sensitive (Windows is not) so I see one issue here.

You might try it like this instead:
sudo mount -t cifs -o guest,uid=pi //192.168.1.13/Public/Games/retropie/roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms
so "RetroPie" instead of "Retropie".
also double check that "//192.168.1.13/Public/Games/retropie/roms" is the correct case as well.

[Macaque]

Thanks for the reply, it's working now! Turns out it was just a simple case issue with that one letter 'P'.

[backstander]

@Macaque
In Linux just one letter with the wrong case can completely derailed your day lol
Glad you got it working!