Thread: Homebrew Emulators and SMB access.

Hello!

I hope this is the place to ask this question. I have looked around for a good tutorial and could not find anything but basic information and nothing that answered my questions. I am sorry for this post being so long, but I wanted to explain what I have done so far.

I’m using the Snes9xGX, fceugx, and vbagx emulators. They all work flawlessly when I’m loading the games from the SD card. But when I try to load them from the network it’s another story.

I have a Windows Server 2003 Small Business Server in my house. I’m using it as a domain controller and file server.

My Wii is connected to the network and has internet access and all of the other applications like Homebrew browser and any other program that needs information from the web can access that information without any problems. It’s just these three little programs accessing SMB shares on my network. Just in case I have port TCP 445 open everywhere on my network. I don’t know if this is redundant, but I figured it would take one more thing out of the equation.

I have all of my emulator software saved on my server so sharing folders out is not a problem.

For each of the emulators needed on my server, I have the ROMS folder shared out as: NES, GBA, and SNES respectively. I also created a Wii account on my domain with username and password as I seen in the setting of each of the emulators that it required it. I can browse these folders with any of my machines on the network and see my roms without a problem.
Now I went to each of the emulators on the Wii, set up the IP of the server, the share folder name (NES, SNES, or GBA) and then put in the username and password I created on the network.

But when I choose to browse the network area in any of the emulators it tells me it cannot find the specified folder. It comes up saying it cannot find the “smb://snex9x/roms” folder. Of course this is what is set in the settings.xml file:

<setting name="LoadFolder" value="snes9x/roms" description="Load Folder" />

So I change this to basically nothing since the ROMS folders are shared out as the root share. It then again tells me it can’t find anything at the “SMB://” folder.

At this point I don’t even know if it’s authenticating correctly since it is only giving me this error and not a connection or communications error.

Can anyone help me with what I am doing wrong here???

Should my shared folders be called something else??? Should I not be sharing the ROMS folder in each of my directories on the server???

On the server, each emulator has a directory named for the emulator type. (Super Nintendo, GameBoy Advanced) and then inside is the actual PC emulator software and then a folder called ROMS. I shared this ROMS folder out and called it NES, SNES or GBA. I figured I could leave it as I needed it for my PC emulation, and then just share out the ROMS folder for the Wii needs.

I see so many people using this feature but I can’t for the life of me figure out why it’s just not working.

Thanks for any help you can offer!!!

Gjohnlue (I know, long winded poster!!! Sorry!)