Network Drive
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Hi, hope somebody can help - I'm out of my depth here.
I have a box on my network running VortexBox with 6TB, and I'd like to try and use it to store my roms.
I thought it would be as simple as setting up a mount in fstab on the Pi, however every attempt at this has failed:
These are some of the examples Ive tried and not a single one has got me anywhere:
#UUID=F76D-1EEF /home/pi/RetroPie vfat nofail,user,uid=pi,gid=pi 0 2
#//192.168.1.77/storage/roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms cifs credentials=/home/pi/.smbcredentials,uid=pi 0 0
#//192.168.1.77:/opt/roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms cifs username=root,password=vortexbox,uid=1000,gid=1000 ,nounix,noserverino,rw,user,exec 0 0
#//192.168.1.77/opt/roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms cifs sec=ntlm,username=root,password=vortexbox,_netdev, dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777 0 0
#//192.168.1.77/opt/roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ cifs guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0
#//vortexbox._smb._tcp.local/opt/roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ cifs credentials=/home/pi/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0
#192.168.1.77:/opt/roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms nfs _netdev,nfsvers=4,auto 0 0
#//192.168.1.77:/opt/roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms nfs defaults 0 0
#UUDID=271914a3-3775-4911-bab9-dd2eb9cc223f /home/pi/RetroPie/roms ext4 0 0
UUID="271914a3-3775-4911-bab9-dd2eb9cc223f" /home/pi/RetroPie/roms ext4 nofail,defaults 0 0I must be missing something completely obvious, but like I said I'm clutching at straws.
Any help would be extremely appreciated.
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Hi,
I recently managed to get a network share from my PC set up on my Pi:
My share is on an external hard drive attached to my PC - E:/RetroPieShare - inside this I copied 4 folders from my pi (home/pi/RetroPie - this will copy all the files on your SD card to the external hard drive on your PC :
I then edited the fstab file:
like this:
The next bit was key: the path to the share on the external hard drive in fstab must match the properties shown in windows highlighted in blue - (remember to change the \ to / in the fstab file):
(Also remember to share this folder)
I can now add roms into the roms folder on the external hard drive & they appear in the home/pi/Retropie/roms folder which should appear in Emulation Station
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