Is this solved already?

If not: I would run ssh -v pi@<address>, it should give you a hint.
If you are still puzzled: Mount the SD card of the clone in your Mac, look for a file /etc/hostname. Edit the file and change the hostname to something different e.g rpi-clone. Boot your Rpi with this SD card and try SSH'ing again.

HTH

@mitu
No, it's not related to the build, it happens with vanilla retropie and vanilla raspberry os too.
One ugly workaround I found is copying the files to a fat32 system and back to ntfs on my Windows PC before copying them over via Samba.
The intermediary fat32 step gets rid of any permission issue they have.

@BuZz Hehe ... August 2016 - I can remember this ;)

I'd like to fully admit I'm a moron...
The cord wasn't fully plugged in which is why my recording device and etc were having issue detecting the raspberry pi..

I am so so so sorry for wasting your time.
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Have you logged into the pi with this IP address before? Make sure you have the right IP address of the Pi.

Have you accessed any of the ssh config files recently? I've done this and made a typo rendering the configuration useless.

To find the ip address in four ways. With a keyboard plugged into the pi, press F4 and use the CLI to type in ifconfig you'll want to use the inet address of either the wlan0 or eth0 interface.

There is a menu option in emulationstation that will give the ip address most of the time.

And with windows you could type arp -a to check the arp cache for the address it will be one of the dynamic addresses of the associated interface.

Of course you want to make sure that it is connected, with ethernet you will know. With a router I guess you could log in to the router and check the ip address there.

You should start with ssh, when you get the right address I'll help with winscp.

The paths are specified in the docs - for the es_systems.cfg. For the themes, I think it's in the first post, but the idea is that the themes are copied in the /home/pi/.emulationstation/themes folder (which doesn't exist by default, you'll have to create it).

Ok guys, this time it works fine.
You were right BuZz.
Ty all.

If you SSH into the Pi, you can run the following commands to reset permissions on some key folders:

sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi
sudo chown -R pi:pi /opt/retropie/configs

That will change the ownership user:group to pi:pi for all files and folders under those paths. The first one is the home directory where ROMs and other files are stored, and the second has configuration information including games list xml files.

@BuZz said in Permission Denied:

@caioschiavo No idea what emulationstation tools are, nor am I familiar with pippleware. Also, not sure how you are mounting the usb drive - whether it's via pippleware or usbromservice. You should use the instructions here to mount the usb drive - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/

You can try RetroPie-Setup / configuration / reset rom permissions

ls -la /media/pi/SAMSUNG/Retropie/roms/amstradcpc

will give some details about the permissions.

Adjusting emulationstation config is also not the recommended way of using the usb drive for rom storage (will get overwritten).

when i follow https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/ not worked

because i dont have usbromservice as an option on tools, i think pipplware disable

so i do all the steps, but not worked

boot is fine, but in ES menu only appear 2 itens, settings and pipplware, and duplicated

Oops. Alright then. I thought it would facilitate the process. Lol. Thanks for your swift answer.

Thanks all, it worked.

@rsimmy it should be permanent. Have you moved the configs into another device anything? Or any custom scripts? Did you install RetroPie under a normal user instead of root?

How did you sort it? I'm having the exact same problem