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Serving ROMs from a NAS

Tomáš Kelemen (vudiq) edited this page Oct 21, 2021 · 7 revisions

This process requires access to the Lakka commandline and is also only recommended for those comfortable working in a Linux shell environment.

Mounting a Windows/CIFS/Samba share

Create the mount point folder:

mkdir /storage/roms/nas

Create the mount unit:

nano /storage/.config/system.d/storage-roms-nas.mount

Save and exit: CTRL+O then Enter to save, then CTRL+X to exit

Note: The file name of the mount unit must match the path to the mount point (slashes are replaced with dashes, as in the above example - mount point: /storage/roms/nas -> unit file name: storage-roms-nas.mount)

Add this content, replacing placeholders with your IP, username and password information:

[Unit]
Description=cifs mount script
Requires=network-online.service
After=network-online.service
Before=retroarch.service

[Mount]
What=//192.168.0.31/roms
Where=/storage/roms/nas
Options=username=myusername,password=mypassword,rw
Type=cifs

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Note: If the server does not support samba version 2 or higher, you have to add vers=1 to the Options line:

...
Options=username=myusername,password=mypassword,rw,vers=1
...

For CIFS 3.0 the Options have to be adjusted accordingly, i.e. vers=3.0.

Enable and start the service:

systemctl enable storage-roms-nas.mount
systemctl start storage-roms-nas.mount

If the mount was successful, the volume will be mounted automatically from now on at boot.

Mounting an NFS share

NFS works exactly the same, except you have to use:

What=192.168.0.31:/roms
Type=nfs
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