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mal 29,326 posts
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MrTomFTW wrote:
maybe it's best to start at the beginning -why raspbian AND retropie? the retropie image is 'retropie' (a collection of emulator software) running on a customized version of raspbian. normally you'd only need that, and it's a bit easier to support for these kind of questions.
Here's a question for you lovely experts.
I've got a Pi 3, and have installed Retropie AND Raspbian. I've also set up a network share on my Pi so I can see my \home\ folder and it's contents. How do I make it so I can copy files across from my Windows PC to Raspbian? It prompts me to enter my username and password when connecting to the Pi from my Windows PC, and it seemingly accepts the Pi admin details I've set... But I still don't have write permissions to any of the locations.
I assume there's something I have to type into the command line. Just no idea what.gif)
for retropie, everything is shared across the network by default - you only have to enable ssh: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/SSH
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mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI guess Tom isn't susing ssh/scp to copy stuff over, unless he's installed something he hasn't told us about on his PC. It's probably some cifs/samba share so it works well with windows.
Actually, if he has done that it's probably not using unix permissions for stuff, which might be why it doesn't have write access to his home folder. -
Basically I installed Raspbian first as I'm new to Pi and wanted to have a poke around. Then I decided to use it for emulation and ended up just installing Retropie on top of it.
And yeah, it's pi as the username, but I changed the password. Password is definitely correct though as if I enter the wrong one it doesn't let me in at all.
The Raspberry Pi shows as a network location. \\RASPBERRYPI\pi to be precise. It is a samba share by the looks of it - I followed this guide: http://raspberrywebserver.com/serveradmin/share-your-raspberry-pis-files-and-folders-across-a-network.html
Edited by MrTomFTW at 17:36:07 19-07-2017 -
Actually, the comments on that seem to have a solution. adding "force user = root" to smb.conf... I'll give that a go. -
mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoIf that works, it's definitely not the right way to do it in a proper linux setup, but if you're just using your pi as a retro games station, it almost certainly doesn't matter. -
THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agoYeah I remember when I flashed the retro pie image direct, I could access the shares from both windows and Linux PCs without doing root access. -
Maybe I should just reflash the card and fuck off the whole Raspbian thing. Probably the best thing to do! -
Rusty_M 7,172 posts
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Registered 14 years agoIt'll likely get you working. -
mrpon 37,366 posts
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Registered 15 years agoYeah, I got totally lazy and managed to copy files (roms) from my NAS to the Pi with just ES File Explorer on my phone. -
THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agoAs with all these things i found dicking around with the Pi and building a lego case for it more fun than actually playing the decrepit old games themselves. -
Rusty_M 7,172 posts
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Registered 14 years agoSo many have aged poorly, but there's the odd gem. -
Psiloc 6,366 posts
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Registered 14 years agoSo it turns out you shouldn't update Retropie on any system where you've done any customisation, even as innocuous as installing an optional package or two. Ended up with any image where no controllers work. -
i mean, it shouldn't affect anything. we go to some lengths to avoid overwriting config files, but some updates fundamentally change how things work so it's always worth backing up.
what controllers? they're not even recognized for initial configuration? -
Psiloc 6,366 posts
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Registered 14 years agoRight I dunno what happened but it seems to have stopped auto detecting new controllers. If I do it manually through the main menu it works fine. Is this a deliberate change? Not a huge deal.
I think it didn’t like the optional kid/kiosk mode I had installed, and uninstalling it kills the entire installation, haven't figured out how to sort it without reimaging it. I can make peace with that though, I don’t even want to think about the amount of testing that would be involved in supporting all versions of every optional package. -
Psiloc 6,366 posts
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Psiloc wrote:
no, but i have heard people saying similar things on the forum. i'm not really sure beyond that, though
Right I dunno what happened but it seems to have stopped auto detecting new controllers. If I do it manually through the main menu it works fine. Is this a deliberate change? Not a huge deal.
I think it didn’t like the optional kid/kiosk mode I had installed, and uninstalling it kills the entire installation, haven't figured out how to sort it without reimaging it. I can make peace with that though, I don’t even want to think about the amount of testing that would be involved in supporting all versions of every optional package.
ahh, yeah that package hasn't been updated in a while so i think it can cause problems. it's irritating that the guy who's made it has never tidied it up so it can just be merged into the mainline code but that's up to them. -
Psiloc 6,366 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI know it's easy for me to say, but have you thought about recreating the kid mode thing in the official, vanilla release? It really is pretty useful. I'm slowly becoming the Pi guy amongst my family and friends and I like the idea of locking down the settings a bit to stop people messing, because ultimately I get called on to fix it.
If you could also put something similar onto all my grandparents laptops that would be great. -
it's really up to guy who wrote the kid mode branch, unfortunately. -
Gurgy 2,924 posts
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Registered 20 years agoPlease forgive me for no doubt being a bit thick here.
Finally got around to installing the Retropie image and I've copied across my roms into the relevant folders and that all works fine.
I'm currently having two issues -
1 - rom downloads from some punky website claim to be too big for me to download and suggest installing mega.nz 's download manager. Normally I'd avoid such download managers like the plague but is the Mega NZ one the "official" one for Retropie ? Is it safe / necessary to use ?
2 - Edit - Resolved
Thanks.
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Your-Mother 8,172 posts
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Registered 5 years agoUse archive.org to find your roms rather than funky sites. -
Gurgy 2,924 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThanks will have a look.
To clarify, by "punky" sites I was trying to be clever and not actually mention the the site in question (Arcade P...) rather than using any old dodgy download site. -
Gurgy wrote:
no, nothing not on retropie.org.uk is anything to do with retropie, and unsupported, even if it calls itself retropie-whatever.
1 - rom downloads from some punky website claim to be too big for me to download and suggest installing mega.nz 's download manager. Normally I'd avoid such download managers like the plague but is the Mega NZ one the "official" one for Retropie ? Is it safe / necessary to use ?
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also, any 'download managers' are almost certainly some sort of horrible malware you won't want on your computer!
Edited by dankcushions at 23:25:35 25-08-2017 -
Great program on Radio 4 right now, interviewing Eben Upton about Raspberry Pi.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ly60f
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