samaba

[cloud shard]

doing samba stuff

[lunar dawn]

ok where do you keep your roms?

probably in your user profile right?

[cloud shard]

/mnt/Samsung980pro/Roms/

[lunar dawn]

ohh

yeah just put that in there

[cloud shard]

just at the end of the config?

[lunar dawn]

path = /mnt/Samsung980pro/Roms

replace with path = /var/media

[cloud shard]

ok did it

anything else?

[lunar dawn]

I don't think so

try it

[cloud shard]

do I also need to do any config to the steam deck?

steam decks not seeing any shared folders

that's what I replaced

[lunar dawn]

I'm not sure on that part, I forget

[cloud shard]

I didn't do anything wrong though?

[lunar dawn]

I don't think so, how does the steamdeck look for networks?

probably need to have the same workgroup name

[cloud shard]

I don't follow

do I need to do this?

[lunar dawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRHSrnQueak

I followed this video awhile ago

[cloud shard]

@lunar dawn are you able to just start your smb how he shows? cause I get command not found

at 11:20 he does that

[lunar dawn]

he's starting the service it will be different for you

systemctl enable smbd I think

[cloud shard]

[root@Beastlaptop samba]# systemctl enable smbd
Failed to enable unit: Unit file smbd.service does not exist.

wait enabled it

I just had to remove the d in smbd

[lunar dawn]

oh

[cloud shard]

do I still need to restart my smb?

also could I just reboot to restart samba?

[lunar dawn]

yeah

[cloud shard]

ok so I see my laptop in the network section now

but I get an error when I try to access it, and my steam deck doesn't see it

[lunar dawn]

did you figure it out yet?

[cloud shard]

nope, just kinda gave up

nobodys guides help

[lunar dawn]

do systemctl status smd

smb*

also make sure you're on the same workgroup

[cloud shard]

im getting a little fed up with this, it shouldn't take 3 hours to do something so simple

on windows setting up an ftp client took like a minute

[lunar dawn]

smb

[lunar dawn]

ok and smb is connected to like smb://username@Host#7174name

[vapid hill]

Sup that’s me

😂😂😂

[lunar dawn]

I'm sorry haha

[vapid hill]

It’s aight bro

[cloud shard]

honestly don't even know what you're talking about right now

[vapid hill]

It’s funny

[cloud shard]

the guide never had me connect anything like that

[lunar dawn]

you're not far off from finishing, you just need to add the samba server to your steam deck

[cloud shard]

alright, how do we do that

[lunar dawn]

ok so remind me the server is on another pc?

or the steamdeck

[cloud shard]

it's just my laptop and steamdeck on public wifi

[lunar dawn]

ah ok so this

[cloud shard]

yeah

[lunar dawn]

do username@beastlaptop

[cloud shard]

command not found

[lunar dawn]

no I mean when connecting to smb

ok let me show you mine

[cloud shard]

how do you connect? im just going into my fiile manager and double clicking my pc under network and it gives me that error

[lunar dawn]

oh uhh

[cloud shard]

that's on my laptop btw

steam deck doesn't see anything

this is my steam deck

[lunar dawn]

can you add server?

[cloud shard]

enter server url?

[lunar dawn]

yeah

[cloud shard]

yeah

[lunar dawn]

try that in the format like I showed above

[cloud shard]

just put my laptop's ip in it?

[lunar dawn]

like mine was satori@gensokyo

and it just connects

[cloud shard]

iv'e got no idea what mine would be then

[lunar dawn]

what's your hostname?

[cloud shard]

username@devicename?

[lunar dawn]

yeah

[cloud shard]

like brett@beastlaptop?

[lunar dawn]

yeah

[cloud shard]

ok lemme try

it just opens it in firefox

[lunar dawn]

clicked that shared folders directorty

[lunar dawn]

kill smb and see if that folder still shows up

systemctl stop smb

[cloud shard]

on my laptop or?

[lunar dawn]

whatever is running the server

like my desktop server is running the samba server

and I connect to it on my phone

[cloud shard]

yeah it still shows up

at this rate I feel like ftp would be easier

[lunar dawn]

yeah try that because usually samba is used when communicating with windows devices

[cloud shard]

then why tf do all these steam deck tutorials use samba?

they'll be running linux too so it's not like they need it for windows specifically

[lunar dawn]

what are you trying to do exactly anyways?

[cloud shard]

I just want to sync my roms from my laptop to my steam deck that's it

iv'e been at this for hours just trying to find a way to do that

[lunar dawn]

oh yeah just use ftp

[cloud shard]

is there a good ftp to use? cause I heard filezilla contains malware

[lunar dawn]

ssh

[cloud shard]

isn't that a type of hack?

[lunar dawn]

no

sftp

[cloud shard]

is that an aur or a flatpak or?

[lunar dawn]

dolphin supports accessing files over that

[cloud shard]

im litterally using dolphin

[lunar dawn]

yes

[cloud shard]

my friend showed me she has dolphin and she just has to click network and it "just works"

[lunar dawn]

oh try her solution, I'm just guessing here now haha

[cloud shard]

I can't

she's offline rn

[lunar dawn]

rip

[cloud shard]

she's just shown me before and told me about samba so I thought this would be super easy like she made it out to be

[lunar dawn]

well samba does setup easy, it's hard to diagnose on my end what's wrong

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/samba

check this out again

[cloud shard]

if I had a dollar for everytime iv'e been told that

iv'e read the wiki dude

tired of fucking with this shitty software honestly

welp just gonna give this up for now, filezilla server doesn't work on arch

[cloud shard]

alright

uh, you know im trying to file transfer right?

this is a remote desktop client

I suppose, I was wanting syncthing cause it automatically does it