Is RetroNAS required or can I use TrueNAS or other NAS?

[Sawtaytoes]

Is RetroNAS required or can I use TrueNAS or other NAS?

[sairuk]

RetroNAS simplifies this installation for the users of RetroNAS, RetroNAS is not required for loading MiSTer data across a network.

MiSTer uses cifs (smb/samba), this is documented (at a minimum) in the playbook where it installs configuration and restarts the samba service pointing at our configured MiSTer directory.

if you want to setup a samba share on some other NAS product you can do so but refer to that products documentation.

Our documentation for MiSTer covers the MiSTer side of the configuration to connect to the samba share refer to https://github.com/danmons/retronas/wiki/MiSTer-FPGA#MiSTer-FPGA-configuration you can follow this and point it at your alt NAS product once your share is setup.

This repo and doco we have here is for the RetroNAS project, if you want to understand how to integrate MiSTer on a specific alt product please ask on their support channels.

[tjanas]

everyone's using microSD cards, not SMB or NFS shares

https://www.retrorgb.com/introducing-retronas.html