Share desktop drive to Bazzite over network
Wanted to avoid having to sync save-files or custom content in games so I decided on sharing a whole drive of my desktop with my laptop running Bazzite. They're both connected via a switch, but I can't manage to get a network share going. The furthest I've managed to get is seeing the folder (entirety of the drive) be visible in the SMB subfolder in the network panel of Dolphin, but then it asks for credentials, even though thats turned off in Windows/Advanced Share/All Networks
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smb should just work assuming you configure it correctly
Folder is shared with full permissions to everyone
Windows settings for sharing: for private networks all 3 toggles on, public networks both toggles on, all networks both toggles off (namely password protected sharing)
Inside Dolphin in the SMB folder I see my hostname, I click and get credential popup, I try
anonymous/anonymous
anonymous/empty
username/empty
username/online account password
"host/username"/ empty
"host/username"/online account password
email/online account password
nothing works
try manually entering the smb url like
smb://ip_or_hostname/fooHave tried that but following along, Im at the credentials screen; following the tooltip I should only need the username, which is what shows up with whoami in cmd after the pc name right?
because that with any/no password doesnt work, just refreshes the prompt
or should I not get a credentials prompt to begin with (as the toggle in windows implies..?)
does your windows user have password?
try that
Just recently set up so I'm pretty sure I used an online account so beyond the pin I use that accounts password is the only thing that comes to mind - which I have tried
I have another device with Ubuntu which I'm about to try to troubleshoot, anything I should look out for there?
from what i read newer windows version doesnt really like giving unauthenticated smb share, you can either create new local account or actually turn auth off
Turn auth off imply anything else other than that one toggle I mentioned?
Because thats already off
looks like youll need group policy
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/enable-insecure-guest-logons-smb2-and-smb3?tabs=group-policy
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Will check out thanks
Also like, am I bothering with this for no reason? As in, are there other feasible clean ways to just let it access my D drive for game files? I dont know all too much about file sharing protocols or setups, only ever done syncthings or manual cloning. If there is a cleaner solution that works more reliably Im open to suggestions
create new local user and use it for auth
safer probably
oh also gaming over network share is pretty spotty
and gaming on ntfs is not supported
network share is mostly only viable for data sharing
my main use case wouldve been Clone Hero songs and roms/savestates
but I might just deal with a one time carry over for the moment
data file like save and song should be pretty fine mostly
just dont run games over smb
oh no no, the laptop is a 3rd gen i5 on an hdd, im not all too concerned with performance haha
alright thanks though, ill check out the GP above and if it doesnt work or not well enough ill just carry it over I guess (winscp?)
you can use sftp or something like rclone/rsync