sharing a folder on my network, but can't access games on other pc! help pleas

[hulkster]

i have all my games and emulators and stuff on this machine.  but i am putting another computer in my cab when its finished.  so i want to transfer all of my games and emulation stuff over to my other computer via file sharing (network through router and all that) on my other machine (98 machine) i can access all the files and see them, and even open mamewah and mame32 but when i try to open games, it says that some files are missing...on every game!  i looked on this computer and all the files are there, so somehow my other machine doesnt have permission or something to see certain files off this machine.  also, when i try to access a game through mamewah, i push "1" to open it and i get a error that says "File/Path access error"  what is that supposed to mean and how can i fix this???  

[waveryder]

Try mapping the shared folder as a network drive. This should solve your prob. Later

[slug54]

Whats happening is the programs like mame32 are still looking for roms in the same folder as your other pc.
So if it doesn't find them in like "c:\mame32\roms"
its going to error out.
It sounds like you are trying to access the programs
across your network instead of copy them from one pc to another. If you copy the apps from one pc to another and place the files in the same Directories it should work, As long as the program doesn't store its settings in the windows registry.
Thank god most emus don't .

                          Slug54

[Howard_Casto]

Except for mame32.  Mame32 is evil that way.... get a good fe and switch to windows command line mame.  You will most likely get registry issues using a network share and mame32, even if the program is local.  

[hulkster]

well i tried mapping the folder as a drive, and the same thing happens.  i get into mame32 and when i try to play a game, it shows some files arent there.  why cant i friggin see these files on my other machine!?!?  ah, this is so frustrating, somebody please lend a brotha a hand.

[SirPoonga]

It's like my current setup.  My cabinet is linux.  I have a share on my main pc with my roms.  I run the games over the network.  When I did have windows on my cabinet for awhile in order to get it to work so you can define the locations in mame I needed to map it as a drive.  I think I mapped to z:\

[hulkster]

well i did map the drive to G and i got the same results.  for some reason every time i tried to run a game, it wouldnt see all the files.  it said some of them were missing, which they were...but only in the shared folder on the win98 machine.  why does this happen?  somehow they get lost between the main pc and the 98 machine, and i only get a portion of the files.  

so what i did was take out the harddrive from the main pc (my secondary one with all the emu stuff on it) and plug it into my 98 machine as a slave, but for some reason, windows doesnt show the drive in My Computer.  ah!!!!  it shows it in the bios and even in the device manager, but the drive wont come up.  how is this possible?

and one fiinal thing...all i really want to do is transfer my emu folder over to my 98 hard drive.  can i do this with an ethernet wire, or is there an easier way?

[BobA]

What OS is your main pc running?   Is it W98 as well?

BobA

[hulkster]

no its windows 2000 pro.  does that have anything to do with it?

and see, i have my main hard drive hooked up, and the hard drive that has the folder of emu stuff on it hooked up as a slave, and technically i should be able to drag and drop.  but for some stupid reason, windows doesnt see my drive!!!!  i can see it in bios and it even sees it in device manager, but it wont show up in My Computer.  whats the deal?  SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!!!

[slug54]

If the drive is formated with NTFS 98 wont be able to access it. It needs to be FAT or FAT32.
The only way you will be able to access it is through a network share.
When you were trying to access it through a network share and you mapped the g: drive to it.
 You need to tell mame32 the path to the roms was g:\mame32\roms or whatever your path is instead of c:\mame32\roms.

Also try running mame32 from a command line and see if it works.

IE: mame32 galaga
         or
mame32 g:\mame32\roms\galaga    

adjust the last one for the path to your roms


                                   Good luck
                                     Slug

[hulkster]

my secondary hard drive is fine...i took out of my other computer where it was acting a secondary also, and hooked it up to my 98 machine because i wanted to transfer about 4gb's of data (one folder to be exact) to my 98 machine's hard drive.

as a side note, my 98 machines hard drive is new. its a 20 gb, and i didnt go into dos when i first installed, i just put in the win98 SE disk in the CD rom and ran the setup. does that mean that my hard drive is not configured right because i didnt boot to dos? if so, how do i change this so it WILL be right?

[SirPoonga]

If the drive is formated with NTFS 98 wont be able to access it. It needs to be FAT or FAT32.

Not true, but makes life alot easier.

[slug54]

If the drive is formated with NTFS 98 wont be able to access it. It needs to be FAT or FAT32.

Not true, but makes life alot easier.

Just curious Sirpoonga , How can you access a NTFS  drive from a 98 PC.

Quoted from Microsoft Technet
"If you format a Windows 98 partition as FAT, and a Windows XP partition as NTFS, any files on the NTFS partition will not be available or visible if you try to access them while running Windows 98.

Operating System Supported File System
MS-DOS FAT
Windows 3.1         FAT
Windows 95          FAT
Windows 95 OSR2 FAT, FAT32
Windows 98           FAT, FAT32
Windows 2000       FAT32, NTFS
Windows XP           FAT32, NTFS "

 link to microsoft page quoted from.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/proddocs/dual_booting.asp


If its possible I would like to know how.

                         Slug54