Use a NAs as a storage for ROMs

[ricardo85x]

Hi.

My nvidia shield is great and run a lot of emulator very well.
On my home I have a NAS with all roms from n64, psx, psp, dreamcast, nds,etc.

I would like to play this game without having to copy it to my sdcard or memory card.

My router is very fast so I think if there was a way to mount my NAS as a standard folder on my Shield it will do the job.

Do you guys know if it is possible to 'mount' a SAMBA or FTP or NFS on my shield as a folder?
In that way I will configure my emulators to find the roms in this mounted folder.

thanks

 

[ricardo85x]

Hi

I found the solution with NFS Shares!


Now I can play all my roms from SAS without using my sdcard to copy files.

And small roms files(up to 10MB I can play outside home with internet) I am so happy with this solution now

It is like GRID but for emulation.

Follow the tutorial:

0 - You need a rooted android, superSU 1.9.3, busybox.

1- setup a NFS share ( I am using a 4T external HD on my router with OpenWRT firmware with the NFS package).

2- follow this guide:

Here's my recepie for mounting NFS shares on my Galaxy S3, running NeatRom 2.8 (Derived from SlimKat 2.8) and with Boeffla-Kernel:

#remount the root filesystem rw so that we can create the mountpoint
/sbin/busybox mount -o remount,rw /
#create the mountpoint
/sbin/busybox mkdir -p /mnt/nfs/Download
#make the mountpoint world readable so that all user apps can access it
/sbin/busybox chmod 777 /mnt/nfs
/sbin/busybox chmod 777 /mnt/nfs/Download
#remount / as ro
/sbin/busybox mount -o remount,ro /
#mount the actual NFS share (on 192.168.1.1:/overlay/Storage
su --mount-master -c "/system/xbin/mount -o nolock,ro,hard,intr -t nfs 192.168.1.1:/overlay/Storage on /mnt/nfs/Download"
#check that it was mounted
mount | grep /mnt/nfs/Download

Using this method (and having world readable permissions on my shared files) I am able to access the files both with a root explorer (ES File Manager) and with non-root apps (MXPlayer, QuickPic). Without running the chmod on the created folders I am only able to access them with a root explorer.

Let me know if you need additional help, and a million thanks to @brotbuexe for pointing out the mount-master trick (I was actually looking into injecting commands into adb before finding out of this switch).

3 - done

 

[psycho1200]

Hi

I found the solution with NFS Shares!


Now I can play all my roms from SAS without using my sdcard to copy files.

And small roms files(up to 10MB I can play outside home with internet) I am so happy with this solution now

It is like GRID but for emulation.

Follow the tutorial:

0 - You need a rooted android, superSU 1.9.3, busybox.

1- setup a NFS share ( I am using a 4T external HD on my router with OpenWRT firmware with the NFS package).

2- follow this guide:




3 - done

Thanks man i need that, i will try it at my home and let you know if i can do it or i need help thanks again :good:

 

[DarkShadowSwE]

would this require a kernel that supports CIFS or would it work nativly?, might try it on my Shield TV,

 

[ahoque1]

would this require a kernel that supports CIFS or would it work nativly?, might try it on my Shield TV,

Hi, have you had any luck on the Shield TV?

I am struggling, I think mountmanager or cifsmanager require the cifs.ko file, those modules.

 

[DarkShadowSwE]

Hi, have you had any luck on the Shield TV?

I am struggling, I think mountmanager or cifsmanager require the cifs.ko file, those modules.

Here is my guide for the shield tv, haven't tested the post above for my note yet tho, xD

https://forums.geforce.com/default/...nt-a-network-share-into-the-filesystem-root-/