Retropie not appearing on windows network after update

Shadowjedi01

I updated my RETROPIE recently and now the pi is not visible in the windows network folder.

I have it on a wired connection to my router and still nothing. I use the \RETROPIE in the folder and I gain access to the pi but it still remains invisible on my network. I enabled SSH in the settings.

It's literally taken me years to get my RETROPIE image to where it is now. I'm just trying to put together a master disk image for my nephew's Christmas gift.

mitu

RetroPie not appearing in the 'network' on Windows is a consequence of Windows (Microsoft) dropping SMB1 support and - on Linux - Samba also defaulting to use SMB3/SMB2 instead of the insecure SMB1 versions.
Just create a shortcut to \\retropie on your desktop and it works just as well.

Shadowjedi01

@mitu Sorry, noob question - how do I create a shortcut?

mitu

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start-win_desk/quick-tip-create-desktop-shortcuts-in-windows-10/d867565e-34c2-42ad-88da-ccf76a4a9820

Sysiphus

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 ?