Setting up a network share on Linux without causing Steam issues
Setting up a network share on Linux without causing Steam issues
Begin here at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/...nd-Windows. I’m unsure about mounting a NAS right away, but this resource offers useful commands to identify your drives and possibly the NAS. After identifying them, you can set up the mount point for the NAS. Once created, you should be able to include it in your Steam library folder. A quick search online shows few people store their Steam library on a NAS—usually it’s slow and causes long load times. Plus, it adds extra complexity by running Windows games on an OS not optimized for them. This guide is aimed at those who still dual boot and want to keep data safe without repeatedly downloading the entire library.
Thank you. I’ll address a few questions from that perspective. Generally, it’s because my Wi-Fi is slow, so I save all games I’m not playing instead of re-downloading them. Interestingly, on your XFS setup, everything worked smoothly when connecting through Windows.
I think the problem is that the steam may be detecting two folders not because both of them are in your NAS but because one steamapps folder is on your nas and the other one could be on the os drive itself try finding if there is a steam apps file on your os drive this can vary a bit from distro to distro so you may need do some reaserch but for an ubuntu based distros it should be at the path: ~/.steam/steam/SteamApps/common here is the link where I got the path from if it might help: https://askubuntu.com/questions/227502/w...-installed by the way: what distro are you running, what are you sys specs etc also you might want to check your logs folder for steam and see what the problem may be in more detail the path to that is here: /home/$(whoami)/.steam/steam/logs