Remote storage of roms

Libretro Lakka
#1

Is there any way or development of being able to remote play roms for example from a NAS drive?

#2

It’s fairly manual, but you should be able to add an entry to your /etc/fstab that mounts a network share and that will appear transparent to the OS for launching games, etc.

#3

Can you give an example of the line I would need to add there? I’m a noob to what to add. I know how to nano etc just not sure what to put

Eg my nas has an ip for example 192.168.1.2

#4

Can you give me an example of what to put in there. I can use nano etc but wouldn’t know for the life of me what line to put in there

My share, for example, would be

192.168.1.2/volume1/Roms/

#5

i have a smb share on my network that I connect to (not in Lakka, just regular ol’ Ubuntu) with this line:

#media drive
//192.168.1.105/sda1 /media/smbshare cifs username=whatever,password=whatever,uid=1000 0 0

This mounts my remote ‘sda1’ drive to my local /media/smbshare mountpoint using cifs. It authenticates with the username and password.

#6

Can’t seem to write to it. Always read only, logged in as root. Tried sudo or su and says can’t be used?

#7

Ah, yeah, Lakka makes at least some things read-only, not sure why. Maybe kivutar can provide some other suggestions.

#8

You can do it with the old fashioned way.

First of all create the mount point folder :

mkdir /storage/roms/nas

Create and save (CTRL+O then Enter to save then CTRL+X to exit) a script called autostart.sh

nano /storage/.config/autostart.sh

If you need to mount samba share

 #!/bin/sh
 (sleep 5;
  mount -t cifs -o username=[B]xxxx[/B],password=[B]xxxx[/B],rw //192.168.1.2/volume1/Roms /storage/roms/nas;
 )&

Make the script executable

 chmod +x /storage/.config/autostart.sh

Test it

 /storage/.config/autostart.sh

Check it by typing (wait 5 seconds):

mount | grep cifs

If it’s ok it will mount it automatically when you reboot.

Source

Serving ROMs from a NAS is not currently working
#9

worked an absolute treat! thanks so much! only thing i had to change was the path to my share, as my samba share didnt require the volume, i.e //192.168.1.2/Roms

thank you!!

#10

Glad it worked :wink:

#11

Hey! I know this is an old topic, but it’s still the latest I found regarding this issue. I have the share all set up and working, but I cannot load the roms/files! It just says it failed to load the game and nothing else happens. Nothing in the logs or anything! I’ve tried both zipped roms and unpacked roms, but nothing works. I have a fast and stable connection, so it should work! I’m running the latest Lakka version on a Raspberry Pi 2.

Please help!

#12

We have an issue regarding this problem on RPi.

#13

Please help! I have an issue with remote roms too. Tried all the above but couldn’t get to work. Below my setup, no credentials needed for shared folder.

#!/bin/sh (sleep 5; mount -t cifs -o username=,password=,rw //192.168.1.2/Roms /storage/roms/nas; )&

When running “/storage/.config/autostart.sh” im getting this: /storage/.config/autostart.sh: line 5: //192.168.1.2/Roms: not found

I’ve tried opening all ports :smiley: and given permission for file and printer sharing through firewall too.