Open PlayStation Loader can't read my External hard drive via ethernet?

Hi everyone.

I've currently got my laptop hooked up to the PS2 via ethernet and using SMB share.

My laptop hard drive isn't great so I downloaded a bunch of games to an external hard drive and shared that but the games don't appear in OPL.

I got a 128gb USB drive, copied a game across, kept all the same folders and naming conventions, shared that in the exact same way and the game will show up?

Any ideas?

 

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In what sense? I enabled SMB share on both devices in the exact same way

 

Ah OK I get you, I wasn't aware of that.

So I did try going the Pi route and it just didn't work for me, I brought a Pi 4, tried installing Psx Pi on it but had an issue where it wouldn't boot. Googled it and apparently this is a problem with a lot of Pi 4s and I should install Raspbian and download Psx Pi through there but it just would not work and eventually even Raspbian stopped booting. In all fairness the issue is probably because I'm not great at this sort of stuff so I settled for the PC method.

I'll play around with my firewall settings, see that gives me any joy. Thank you for the help!

 

I have enabled it as far as I'm aware.


Silly question but is there a chance I have to do it for individual devices?

 

So I managed to fix it, all my games are appearing in OPL. I'll leave this here incase anyone has the same issue

I had to do 2 things. The drive was NTFS, apparently it comes with its own set of security permissions I needed to check

Also for some reason unlike the USB drive I needed to create a folder within the HDD, move everything into there and share that folder