Topic: Neogenesis "could Not Open Smb File" (Read 97 times)

WilliamDecker · « **on:** April 30, 2004, 01:42:00 AM »

Back in the day when I used Relax shares everything used to work great, but I've really been digging SMB shares with programs like XBMC, so with that I decided to hook up my SMB sharing in NeoGenesis (and other XPort emulators). Trouble is when I go to load my ROM it gives a "Could not open SMB file" error. I can see all the directories and all the roms, but any I try to load (over all the different XPort emulators) won't load? Any suggestions as I searched the forum, and checked the XPort site, but nothing relates to this

Here is what's in my config:

WilliamDecker · « **Reply #1 on:** April 30, 2004, 04:46:00 PM »

*bump back to main page until XPort comes around

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Gus Man · « **Reply #2 on:** April 30, 2004, 05:07:00 PM »

try all of these

smbshare=smb://username:password@workgroup/computername/sharename
smbshare=smb://username:password@workgroup:ip_address/computername/sharename
smbshare=smb://username:password@computername/sharename
smbshare=smb://username:password@computername:ip_address/sharename
smbshare=smb://workgroup/computername/sharename
smbshare=smb://workgroup:ip_address/computername/sharename
smbshare=smb://computername/sharename
smbshare=smb://computername:ip_address/sharename

WilliamDecker · « **Reply #3 on:** April 30, 2004, 05:35:00 PM »

I can connect to my other computer and see all the ROMs, so it's not a question of that...I just dont' understand why I can't open them...

WilliamDecker · « **Reply #4 on:** April 30, 2004, 05:38:00 PM »

I did a little more investigation and it turns out I can't open *.zip files over the network, but I could open the unrared ROMs...did I not RTFM??? Going to head off and check

WilliamDecker · « **Reply #5 on:** April 30, 2004, 05:47:00 PM »

After some more investigation it turns out that I can't open *.smd files (unzipped genesis game) either...only files I can seem to load are *.bin/*.iso...

But even then I get a "checking disk" screen the Sega CD gives...not sure how long it takes to load a 353MB ISO

WilliamDecker · « **Reply #6 on:** May 01, 2004, 04:57:00 PM »

*bump back to main page until XPort comes around*

frank black · « **Reply #7 on:** May 02, 2004, 05:28:00 AM »

The only way that I ever got Xports emus to work with SMB shares was off of my linux box. Even then, it would only share them for about 5 minutes ( if I played one game then tried to load another after 5 minutes I would get an error. I could get the shares working again if I restarted the emulator).... I think that can be fixed by editing the smb.conf file with some kind of timeout setting.

As far as XP, I get the same results as WilliamDecker and have never got them to actually load.

WilliamDecker · « **Reply #8 on:** May 02, 2004, 10:13:00 PM »

Wonder if it's a problem with Windows XP or the emulators...all of them

balboni · « **Reply #9 on:** May 04, 2004, 01:21:00 PM »

I have been having the same issues, and it works fine in XBMC, so I am assuming it is something with the file handling in the emulators =/

Ah well, the files are small enough I don't mind copying them over (still using original XBox HD heh).

EDIT: I am using XP as well, so I guess it still could be an XP issue?

This post has been edited by balboni: May 4 2004, 08:21 PM

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