Network share Game Saves

[fadingrose]

Good afternoon everyone

It's been a while since i had a Retropie set up and a bit rusty on the knowledge of Network share Game Saves. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 set up with Retropie and running Roms from the networking is working fine from my Truenas server. I used option 2 Fstab as autostart.sh doesn't seem to work for me.

What is the process of being able to Save roms to the network as at the moment when i go to save a roms progress the PI locks up and freezes doing nothing else. According to the guide using autostart.sh you replace

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

With

sudo mount -t cifs -o sec=ntlmv2,username=something,rw,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,password=something,nounix,noserverino //REMOTEHOST/path/to/roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms

What's the process with Fstab is it similar?

[mitu]

Ensure the rom folders are writable by the pi user, there's no additional entry to be added to /etc/fstab for game saves.

[fadingrose]

Thank you for the response

I jumped onto my Truenas and created a new user pi and also gave it a password and then updated my ACL's for the RetroPie location to give the pi user read/write access and updated the /etc/fstab on the pi to reflect the new new pi user & password and also changed the pi's password to reflect the new password. My fstab entry looks as followed

//IP/Gaming/RetroPie /home/pi/RetroPie cifs username=pi,password=*****************,nounix,noserverino,defaults,users,exec 0 0

I presume that should now give me permission to save as i rebooted the pi, restarted samba and checked everything once over and when i try to save it still just flashes the save icon and eventually freezes.

Am i missing something?

[mitu]

Can the pi user write into the ROMs folder(s) ? Can you test by trying to create a file from the cli in the rom folder, logged in as pi ?
If that's ok, then get a verbose log and attach it on pastebin.com.

[fadingrose]

I solved it, was looking through some of the old documents i had written and came across an old Retropie.txt file i created years ago which i had written myself an old guide on how to set up the network rom shares. In the fstab i had used the following.

//IP/Gaming/RetroPie /home/pi/RetroPie cifs username=pi,password=***********,uid=3001,gid=3001,nounix,noserverino,rw,user,exec 0 0

I had totally forgot that i just had to give the pi read/write access to the Gaming dataset and then in fstab i just needed to drop in the uid, gid and rw and it now saves.

Cheers