Use raspi-config to change the Hostname of one of the Pi systems. You can do it from System Options -> Hostname.

@rasp_renegade What are you using for an image ?

@Bagarn said in Mount network share, Unable to find suitable address.:

To be fair, the guide did not mention samba or anything like that. :D

Yes, the guide is only for the client side setup, not the server itself. Glad you got it sorted out, have fun !

@BuZz OK.I've tried to dynamically change the DNS server to visit github.com and successfully installed retropie on Ubuntu(amd64).Maybe I just need to post a solution on local forums to instruct others.

Looks like the upstream libretro assets repository renamed them and the upgrade script just adds the new files, without removing the older ones. Maybe we should clear up the folder before the upgrade, to avoid this issue.

After some tries clearing my head i erased the interfaces file (auto lo iface etc...), rebooted and i got connected though ethernet.

Then i installed all the latest versions of everything.

I tried to connect to my WIFI and it dint, BUT it connected to my 5G WIFI!

Now i have internet through WIFI. Its working im not touching anything else!

Thank you!

@Zangdaarr Another Late Reply - I came across this while trying to figure out why Hi Scores were not being saved while trying to write using ROMS on a network share. I had given the User I had created access rights, however, I believe that the rw (read/write) and the file/dir mode of 777 (read, write and execute (I believe)) is the secret sauce. Glad that this is in the User Guide...but, just overlooked by me until today.

@mitu , @BuZz Thank you both :)

@sephiroth Unless you have a way to mount that cloud drive as a normal mount in the filesystem, I don't think you can do this.

I'm 99% sure ftp can't as it is a request-based system. It does not have the granularity for fetching data as is needed by the emulators.

You might be able to create a script for it though, which fetches a rom file from the ftp and places it in the required location. Then deletes it afterwards or something. But you would still need dummy-files placed in the filesystem that initiate the script in the first place.

RetroArch doesn't have the concept of a system, this is a front-end configuration convention (EmulationStation/runcommand). So you'll either have to modify each system's config or use a global save folder and hope you don't run into a situation with identical ROM/game names for multiple consoles/platforms.

@berutti yes :)

The reason that Retropie isn't visible in the Win10 Network folder is due to the fact that netbios discovery isn't supported by windows anymore.
But it is possible to make samba shares again visible by the Web Services Dynamic Discovery Method.
I am currently using a little python3 script from Steffen Christgau on my Debian Buster NAS Server which makes WSD available und thus browsing Samba Shares much more conveniant.

https://github.com/christgau/wsdd

@mitu
Might it be possible to make this a standard addon to retropie ?

Now it works. Thank you very much.

@simpleethat I didn't think I could, but I just had to ask. Thanks for the reply! :)

@mitu great. thanks for the help!

@Zangdaarr said in Roms are on a network folder, but writing seems to fail:

That seems way more interesting, thank you I will investigate rsync, is there anyway for a sync job to simply wait and put the sync in queue if the connection is severed ?

rsync is just a synchronization/copy command, it's not a service that keeps tab on files. You can run it periodically and it will synch only the changed data, keeping transfers to a minimum. If your backup location is not available, it will fail.

@saccublenda

After I wrote this article I found that option in the Boot Options menu, I set it to wait for network connectivity however for some reason that did not work. however setting a sleep command to the autostart.sh worked well. Using the autostart.sh sleep and mount command worked properly.

Thank you for your valued input:)

@mitu

Man I can't thank you enough, it's finally working! If you PM me your details, you have a few beers from me :)

For anyone interested, after registering at screenscraper.fr and going through all SS flags arguments, I think I finally got it right:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -scrape_all=true -download_images=true -download_marquees=true -download_videos=true -console_src="ss,gdb,ovgdb" -mame_src="adb,mamedb,gdb" -use_nointro_name=true -ss_user="user_name" -ss_password="password"

No more errors:

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