Running roms from network share does not work

KITN

Hi there,
I have a second Raspberry Pi (Pi4 4GB) in my network which stores my data as a network share. I want to run the games on Retropie from this network share too.

In order to do that I followed the tutorial on Github.

Here is the folder structure on my network share

On "Boot Options" I selected Yes

I did:

sudo nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh

This is what I added:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=pi,password=mypassword,nounix,noserverino //192.168.2.109/media/medienspeicher/Retropie/roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=pi,password=mypassword,nounix,noserverino //192.168.2.109/media/medienspeicher/Retropie/BIOS /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=pi,password=mypassword,nounix,noserverino //192.168.2.109/media/medienspeicher/Retropie/splashscreens /home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreens

It does not work. What do I have to do in order to make it work?

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Pi Model or other hardware: 3B
RetroPie Version 4.6
Built From: Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website
Guide used: see abowe

mitu

@KITN said in Running roms from network share does not work:

It does not work. What do I have to do in order to make it work?

What happens when you run the mount commands manually, from the command line/SSH session:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=pi,password=mypassword,nounix,noserverino //192.168.2.109/media/medienspeicher/Retropie/roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms

Do you get an error message or the command succeeds ?

KITN

I get a error message, that the directory does not exist:

mount error(2): No such file or directory

kevin@SIDNEZ ~ $ ssh pi@192.168.2.109
pi@192.168.2.109's password: 
Linux raspberrypi 4.19.97-v7l+ #1294 SMP Thu Jan 30 13:21:14 GMT 2020 armv7l

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Wed Jun  3 10:53:42 2020 from 192.168.2.125
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd /media/medienspeicher/Retropie/roms/
pi@raspberrypi:/media/medienspeicher/Retropie/roms $

But I can connect to the directory via ssh so I think the part "//192.168.2.109/" seems to be wrong.

mitu

@KITN Is the /media/medienspeicher folder (or the RetroPie subfolder) shared by the server via Samba ?

KITN

yes

mitu

@KITN said in Running roms from network share does not work:

yes

Yes what ? Which folder is shared on the network ? Can you browse the shares from a PC and see a listing of the shares ? Is the pi user allowed to access the share(s) ?

KITN

Heres the smb.conf

[medienspeicher]
comment = Medienspeicher
path = "/media/medienspeicher"
public = yes
only guest = yes
browseable = yes
read only = no
writeable = yes
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force create mask = 0644
force directory mask = 0755
force user = pi
force group = pi

mitu

Alright then, so you should be accessing the file share as //<server_ip>/medienspeicher (name of the share) and not as //<server_ip>/media/medienspeicher.
Since you configured the share as 'guest only', you can probably remove the username and password mount options and use guest instead.

KITN

Now it works. Thank you very much.