Can someone give me some guidance on using a specific roms folder on my windows pc as a share for my pi4

wtstreetglow1

Hello all,

I am hoping someone here can help me get this going in the way I would want. I have read the docs but don't really understand what I am reading.

Below is what I would like to do but I don't know if it is possible.

I have shared the following folder across my network:
Z:\RetroBat\roms
Inside it are system name folders and inside of those folders are the individual roms and an images folder.

I would like to be able to use this roms folder for retropie without having to rename anything in the folder structure as this would mess up my Retrobat windows install.

Thank you all for guiding me how to do this if it is possible. I am on pi4 and retropie 4.8.

sleve_mcdichael

@wtstreetglow1 said in Can someone give me some guidance on using a specific roms folder on my windows pc as a share for my pi4:

I have read the docs but don't really understand what I am reading.

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-Network-Share/

This looks pretty straightforward. At what part do you get hung up?

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=something,password=something,nounix,noserverino //REMOTEHOST/path/to/roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms

wtstreetglow1

@sleve_mcdichael Would it just be this in my case:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=usernameforwindowspc,password=passwordforwindowspc,nounix,noserverino \\WESTONSPC\roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms

I keep getting "Bad UNC (\WESTONSPCroms)" returned from the terminal.

Screenshots below. Essentially I want the roms folder of the windows pc to take place of the roms folder on the pi but ignore the local host part "WESTONSPC". I'm not even certain this is doable.

I feel like the "WESTONSPC" part is not ok and it has to be named "RETROPIE" or something. I have no clue what I'm doing so I could be completely wrong on that also.

wtstreetglow1

@wtstreetglow1 It looks like reversing the slashes on the first (windows) share got this working.

It should have been:

//WESTONSPC/roms