Is there a Noob guide for reading Roms off of NAS ?

markyh444

@SkittleBrau79 Do you not need to add a pause in the boot so that the network connection comes up before ES and so can see the path to the ROMs?

Rickt1962

Silly question why doesn't Retropie have Network game location built into its shell ?

SkittleBrau79

I was able to get it working!

As we probably all assumed it was the way the NAS was configured as opposed to the Pi or the guide. Thanks for your help @Rickt1962 @mattrixk @markyh444

markyh444

@SkittleBrau79 glad you got it going. Would you be able to share what you did so if anyone else has the same issue they know?

As I said, I've not done this myself but am intrigued as to how the WD is configured as compared to normal network shares.

Rickt1962

@SkittleBrau79 How did you find the path to your file ?
That seems to be my problem my NAS is at 10.0.0.60 with another Hard Drive plugged into it called XBMC_3_Drive with no login or password

//192.168.1.10/Storage/ROMs /home/pi/RetroPie cifs username=Username,password=Password,nounix,

so I changed it to this but it doesn't see it

//10.0.0.60/XBMC_3_Drive/Storage/ROMs /home/pi/RetroPie cifs username=Username,password=Password,nounix,

osmc@osmc:~$ sudo nano /etc/fstab
osmc@osmc:~$ sudo mount -a
Retrying with upper case share name
mount error(6): No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
osmc@osmc:~$

SkittleBrau79

For me I kept thinking it was an issue with the path, but it was actually a matter of credentials. WD likes to use an email address for the username, which was all I needed to change in my autostart.sh file. Everything else is as described in the guide that @markyh444 posted.

So to be clear, this is the page in the WD UI where a user is defined...

My first instinct was to use "User Name" and password for the credentials, but it's actually "Email" and password that should be added to the autostart.sh file.

markyh444

@SkittleBrau79 That's an interesting quirk. Hope this discovery helps other owners of WD NAS devices in future.

Rickt1962

@SkittleBrau79 said in Is there a Noob guide for reading Roms off of NAS ?:

For me I kept thinking it was an issue with the path, but it was actually a matter of credentials. WD likes to use an email address for the username, which was all I needed to change in my autostart.sh file. Everything else is as described in the guide that @markyh444 posted.

So to be clear, this is the page in the WD UI where a user is defined...

My first instinct was to use "User Name" and password for the credentials, but it's actually "Email" and password that should be added to the autostart.sh file.

Very interesting ! But why is Retropie singled out ? When my OSMC on Pi needs no username and password to access all my media

mattrixk

@SkittleBrau79 I don't recall having to do any of that when I set up my WD NAS (but it was months ago and my memory isn't great).

SkittleBrau79

@mattrixk

Not sure, but it sure confused me. The User Name is actually the person's Western Digital username... not their username to access the drive. The Email address is their username for that.