"Windows cannot access \\RETROPIE"

Thorndy

Hello I am brand new to Raspberry Pi and RetroPie. I just got my RetroPie set up on Friday on a new Raspberry Pi 3. I have setup the wifi on my RetroPie and I can see that it is connected to the network by using a network scanner on my phone. However when I try to access my RetroPie by typing \RETROPIE on windows and smb://retropie on my Mac I can not access my RetroPie.

Also I am not sure this is related but I also can not successfully use the Scraper to get game data. It always says "NO GAMES FOUND - SKIP" even though I have 5 games installed.

Am I missing something somewhere?
Has anyone had problems using the onboard wifi on the Raspberry Pi 3 with RetroPie?

Twitch0815

As a new user let me help you out by setting the tone of the best way to look for help.

First the wiki provides direct documentation for your issue. https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation#transferring-roms
At first glance if you are typing \RETROPIE instead of \\retropie that's not going to work at all on w windows machine.
Also a good idea to read https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first before posting before help as well as searching through the forum for previously asked questions in which several threads have given the answer that thegamesdb.net is down and has been experiencing issues for several of the past days. You can try changing the scraper script to the alternative source but that is not guaranteed to work.

Thorndy

\RETROPIE was a typo in my post. I did type \\RETROPIE.
I already went to the Wiki page. Thats how I knew how to use \\RETROPIE

Twitch0815

are you still doing caps. I see the issue with \\ is formatting you need to add an extra slash but your typing it in all upercase.
Try \\raspberrypiip

Thorndy

Yea I have tried both upper and lower case.

Twitch0815

Download winscp

Open WinScp
Select SCP from file protocol
Type in the ip of your raspberry pi
type in pi in the username
type in raspberry in the password category
it will give you a file level view to transfer roms.

IF that does not connect see if your pc can ping the ip of your raspberry pi and troubleshoot from there.

herb_fargus

I've realised similar issues on my pi3 with the hostname. instead of using the hostname, reboot your pi just in case there is a weird network issue (sometimes I have to reboot my pi after I connect, you could probably technically restart the network services instead but I'm too lazy and its easier for me to reboot) and then as @Twitch0815 said use the raspberry pi Ip address so in my case its: \\192.168.0.107

wetriner

I've actually always had this problem. I haven't ever changed the pi hostname, but I do have my pi set to a static IP now because of this. I can't access with smb:\\RETROPIE or smb:\\retropie. Also with putty I cannot connect with RETROPIE or retropie. I can however connect to the pi with both methods using the IP address without fail, and I can get into all the samba share folders no problem.

Drakaen391

In most cases you have to look it up via IP address...

On Windows though, go to My Computer then click map network drive, then click browse and click on the Retropie folder to map...

If it doesn't show up then you may have a firewall issue...

To find the IP address you can either check your router interface or go to WiFi settings on the Retropie menu

Thorndy

@Drakaen391 said:

On Windows though, go to My Computer then click map network drive, then click browse and click on the Retropie folder to map...

Thank you! This solved my problem. :-)

Stefan

@Drakaen391

I Cant thank you enough ... finally a solution to my problem.

trevevs

I know its quite old, but I had issues getting to my pi3 over anon SAMBA- had to do this..worked for me https://www.techcrumble.net/2018/03/you-cant-access-this-shared-folder-because-your-organizations-security-policies-block-unauthenticated-guest-access/

mitu

@trevevs I wouldn't recommend this solution, especially if your PC has a GPO pushed by the organisation that own said PC.