vash265 Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 (edited) Hey all - I've got a TrueNAS setup with SMB network shares for some of my games. I can discover and use these shares just fine on Windows, but the new network share feature on Android isn't picking up any of the shares. It'll occasionally show other servers on my network (which don't have anything meaningful being shared on them). Any ideas what's going on? This'd be a super handy feature, but I'm having no luck getting it to work right now. Thanks! Edit: Is it possible to specify an IP or server name in a config file somewhere? Edited December 28, 2024 by vash265 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon57 Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 I finally got around to upgrading Launchbox on my Android phone to test this. Everything worked fine from the share on my Windows server. I then looked at the Changelog for the new Android build, the forums threads and inside the LB app on the phone itself and I don't see any mention of which version of the SMB protocol is supported or required. What I recommend is checking on your TrueNAS server and see what version of SMB it is currently using. If version 1, try setting it to version 2 and try from your Android device again. If you are currently running versions 2, try changing to version 1. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fursphere Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 I know almost nothing about TrueNAS, but a quick google search seemed to indicate that you can create NFS or SMB shares. I would expect Android to support NFS shares, as its based on Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon57 Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 NFS on Android is almost non-existent and Google doesn't support it. SMB is much more common and is what you need if you want Launchbox on Android to connect to a share to source/import roms. Are you running the latest version of TrueNAS? I just checked the TrueNAS documentation and SMB1 (version 1) is disabled by default on current builds/versions, so I would think what you have is using SMB2 (version 2). What type of ownership/permissions are on your share? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vash265 Posted December 29, 2024 Author Share Posted December 29, 2024 (edited) I’ve got truenas advertising each share as a smbv1 (legacy) as well as newer protocols. Currently, nothing at all is showing up in the import games prompts as an available network share. The shares are available with guest logins, but launchbox prompted me for credentials on other shares. The truenas ones just aren’t showing up at all. Truenas is up to date. Edited December 29, 2024 by vash265 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon57 Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 Very interesting. I've tried different shares from a number of windows systems configured different ways, and those all work fine. It must be related to TrueNAS. I don't have a TN setup here, but should be able to spin one up and experiment some. I'll get back when I know more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon57 Posted December 30, 2024 Share Posted December 30, 2024 Well, I'm even more stumped than I was. I installed a fresh install of TruNAS Scale latest release. I created my initial pool and created a SMB share using Guest access with default settings. I was able to connect from my Launchbox for Android with no problems. I even turned on the option afterward to allow SMB version 1 and that worked too. I am grasping at straws at this point. What version of Android are you running and on which device? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vash265 Posted December 30, 2024 Author Share Posted December 30, 2024 Very strange. It's an Odin 2 Mini. I actually have two, one that I've owned for a few months and another that I just picked up for my wife. Both of them show the same 3 servers running SMB (one linux server, a Windows machine, and -- bizarrely enough -- a printer). They're both on a recent version of Android 13. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vash265 Posted December 30, 2024 Author Share Posted December 30, 2024 Tried this with a different application on the same device (CIFS Document Provider). The Truenas server showed up immediately I....am at a loss. Still nothing in Launchbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vash265 Posted December 30, 2024 Author Share Posted December 30, 2024 (edited) *Sigh*. Hail mary'd and updated Truenas to the newest minor version. Don't know if it was the update or just rebooting that did it, but the share immediately showed up in Launchbox after the reboot 🫠 When all else fails... Edited December 30, 2024 by vash265 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution dragon57 Posted December 30, 2024 Solution Share Posted December 30, 2024 Excellent! That pic nailed it and fixes so much we will never understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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