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    "Windows cannot access \\RETROPIE"

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      Twitch0815
      last edited by Twitch0815

      As a new user let me help you out by setting the tone of the best way to look for help.

      First the wiki provides direct documentation for your issue. https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation#transferring-roms
      At first glance if you are typing \RETROPIE instead of \\retropie that's not going to work at all on w windows machine.
      Also a good idea to read https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first before posting before help as well as searching through the forum for previously asked questions in which several threads have given the answer that thegamesdb.net is down and has been experiencing issues for several of the past days. You can try changing the scraper script to the alternative source but that is not guaranteed to work.

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        Thorndy
        last edited by Thorndy

        \RETROPIE was a typo in my post. I did type \\RETROPIE.
        I already went to the Wiki page. Thats how I knew how to use \\RETROPIE

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          Twitch0815
          last edited by

          are you still doing caps. I see the issue with \\ is formatting you need to add an extra slash but your typing it in all upercase.
          Try \\raspberrypiip

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            Thorndy
            last edited by

            Yea I have tried both upper and lower case.

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              Twitch0815
              last edited by

              Download winscp

              Open WinScp
              Select SCP from file protocol
              Type in the ip of your raspberry pi
              type in pi in the username
              type in raspberry in the password category
              it will give you a file level view to transfer roms.

              IF that does not connect see if your pc can ping the ip of your raspberry pi and troubleshoot from there.

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              • herb_fargusH
                herb_fargus administrators
                last edited by

                I've realised similar issues on my pi3 with the hostname. instead of using the hostname, reboot your pi just in case there is a weird network issue (sometimes I have to reboot my pi after I connect, you could probably technically restart the network services instead but I'm too lazy and its easier for me to reboot) and then as @Twitch0815 said use the raspberry pi Ip address so in my case its: \\192.168.0.107

                If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                  wetriner
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                  I've actually always had this problem. I haven't ever changed the pi hostname, but I do have my pi set to a static IP now because of this. I can't access with smb:\\RETROPIE or smb:\\retropie. Also with putty I cannot connect with RETROPIE or retropie. I can however connect to the pi with both methods using the IP address without fail, and I can get into all the samba share folders no problem.

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                    Drakaen391
                    last edited by

                    In most cases you have to look it up via IP address...

                    On Windows though, go to My Computer then click map network drive, then click browse and click on the Retropie folder to map...

                    If it doesn't show up then you may have a firewall issue...

                    To find the IP address you can either check your router interface or go to WiFi settings on the Retropie menu

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                      Thorndy @Drakaen391
                      last edited by

                      @Drakaen391 said:

                      On Windows though, go to My Computer then click map network drive, then click browse and click on the Retropie folder to map...

                      Thank you! This solved my problem. :-)

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                        Stefan @Drakaen391
                        last edited by

                        @Drakaen391

                        I Cant thank you enough ... finally a solution to my problem.

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                          trevevs
                          last edited by trevevs

                          I know its quite old, but I had issues getting to my pi3 over anon SAMBA- had to do this..worked for me https://www.techcrumble.net/2018/03/you-cant-access-this-shared-folder-because-your-organizations-security-policies-block-unauthenticated-guest-access/

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                            mitu Global Moderator @trevevs
                            last edited by

                            @trevevs I wouldn't recommend this solution, especially if your PC has a GPO pushed by the organisation that own said PC.

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