I'm guessing EtherDFS is going to have a somewhat lethal reaction to VLANs. If so, that makes Pi on a stick configurations a no-go zone in general. It should be fine. EtherDFS can live in the "retro zone" on the same layer-2 network as everything else. That means it can see and mount RetroNAS …

//192.168.1.11/software/games /mnt/retronas cifs uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/home/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlmv2,noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=5min,vers=3.0 0 0 Test this on the command line with "mount -t cifs blah" first. That'll give you verbose output on what's …

Big guide up today on some of the magic you can do with sparse files, loopback mounts and the "fstrim" command in Linux to present up to 16TB of space to a real MS-DOS machine via EtherDFS: https://github.com/danmons/retronas/wiki/FAT Thanks to sparse files and trim, only the space used by data …

davidrg wrote on 2022-04-15, 09:09: I pulled Mars NWE into github a few months back so it doesn't get lost and added tidied up build and setup instructions which might be useful when you get to it. Brilliant, thank you. That's mighty useful.

IPX is still on my to-do list for RetroNAS. But I've got some nagging networking stuff I want to get out the door first - a basic LAN segmenter with firewall and DHCP server, and some PPP over serial stuff.

Out of curiosity, has anyone tested RetroNAS on other hardware, or a Turing Pi? I wonder about the performance differences. We've got loads of users running this on low end x86 hardware as well as VMs. Performance is relative to your server hardware as much as your client - things like PlayStation2 …

Very excited to have Sairuk on board as co-maintainer now. He brings a boatload of experience as well as far better coding skills than mine. He's run this site for ages: https://mameau.com/ And has added TCPser support in to RetroNAS, to convert your device into a Hayes compatible virtual modem, and …

A feature request came in for TNFS, which according to the documentation is a very small, very lightweight network file system compatible with Atari 8-bit and ZX spectrum computers. I don't have either system, nor the "Fujinet" hardware that appears to be necessary to use it. If any kind VOGONS …

One scenario I ponder is a threat making its way from 9x to Win10 via the server. Say I've unpacked a dodgy game patch, or been drive-by'd while browsing over WebOne. I suppose it's possible that something nasty could be written to the network share, exposing it to Win10. I don't know if that's …

D'oh! I mean, asking for a friend : what does managing old computers inside modern networks involve? Future plans are to use RetroNAS as a firewall of sorts. The current idea is: RetroNAS will run dnsmasq (small DNS/DHCP tool) on the device itself, to configure all IP level stuff into a separate …

Now I'm also wondering, what specs are needed ideally for the Debian x86 version, to have best performance with PS3 games, X360, or whichever platforms tend to be most demanding? I've got a couple SB/IVB i5 towers that might be well-suited, although ideally I'd like to keep them as overkill WinXP / …

Can this be used with a hot-swap drive bay? Like could I have one drive that holds all of my cartridge-based stuff, unplug that, and then plug in a dedicated PS2, PS3, or X360 drive? That way I don't need more than a couple drive bays, and don't need to buy all of the hard drives at once (my …

Samba is going to remove SMB 1.0 Yeah this weighs on my mind. They've been threatening for full scale removal for some time, which I think is a real problem for retro computing enthusiasts. Debian 11 was released August 2021, and has a 5 year support window, taking us through to August 2026. It …

However, I just stumbled on this while trying to find when protocol support was actually removed: https://github.com/pasis/ipx - someone has extracted the IPX code from an old kernel and turned it into a kernel module for Linux 4.18 and up! This is kind of exciting (to me at least) - I might just …

you have to copy a game locally to run it Pierre32 and a few others have been helping me out a lot with testing EtherDFS in particular. It's not 100%, but so far it seems to really be quite competent at removing the need to copy things locally for simpler software. The other crazy thing they've …

Its really a shame IPX was cut from the Linux kernel a few years back. There is a Netware server implementation for Linux (Mars NWE) which would have been great for something like this. I don't know a whole lot about IPX, but is the project/code still maintained somewhere? If it's something I can …

Hi everyone, I'm the author of this thing. And thank you @Pierre32 for starting this thread, not to mention the extensive testing and feedback you've already helped me with. Invaluable stuff! This got a wee bit of media today on RetroRGB for MiSTer and PlayStation 2 compatibility, but I want to …

I started playing around on a Raspberry Pi 4. It's not exactly fast for Boxedwine, but since I'm only using the normal core, I guess that isn't surprising. Right now it seems like Roller Coaster Tycoon gets about 1 frame per second. I already have a simple JIT recompiler for x86 that I can use as a …