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    samba reconfiguration to hdd??

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      darkbibble
      last edited by darkbibble

      hi

      i used this tutorial adafruit external root which copys and sets up the root drive to hdd and retropie is running nicely, but the roms folder is not sharing.

      what do i do to reconfigure it??

      thanks

      lee

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        darkbibble
        last edited by

        ok to recap. retropie is working fine except for the samba share.

        what do I have to edit to make samba sharing work again?

        please help

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        • herb_fargusH
          herb_fargus administrators @darkbibble
          last edited by

          @darkbibble why don't you just use this method?

          https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/

          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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            darkbibble
            last edited by

            I have the full os running fine on a pi-drive usb hdd, I just need to know what file needs editing and which bit to tell samba that the share is in the new location

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            • herb_fargusH
              herb_fargus administrators @darkbibble
              last edited by

              @darkbibble here's the module code.

              https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/samba.sh#L31

              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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