With the Tiamat 1.3 kernal installed (along with the cifs.ko module as well), I wanted to Mount a Shared network drive on my Xoom so it will act like a local folder on my Xoom. With File Expert, I can see the shared network drive in the Network tab but it will not mount. It says Mount Failed when I try it. Next, I use Mount manager and it will tell me that the device does not exist when I enter the IP address with the shared path. Do anyone have another way of mounting the Drive on my Xoom?
having the same issue so would love some guidance on connecting to a drive on my network. It's on an Ubuntu laptop. Not having luck, whereas it was easy on my wife's iphone4 via vlc streamer.
Youtube search or a search here will bring it up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlvAoHmTkqU
Knether said:
Youtube search or a search here will bring it up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlvAoHmTkqU
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This is more of a reverse of what he is looking for. This is for mounting the xoom's hd as a network drive.
There are a couple of cifs programs out tere, but I have not been able to get them to work either. If I come across anything or resolve it, i'll post it here.
Jwb
I installed file expert, and I am able to mount my worldbook nas box, but when I go into the folders, I can't download any of the files. I have verified that I am logged in with the right credentials. I'll need to muck with it a little more.
I would just check your settings. Are trying to mount a network drive or a shared drive?
Jwb
I found a solution
I found a solution to this problem. I create a new thread in the Xoom General area under the name "How to Mount a Network Drive for Streaming Videos, Music and More"
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I am trying to mount a shared folder from an xp desktop to my samsung epic (stock 2.1), using cifsmanager and neorouter over 3G/4G.
Neorouter network is working great with shares from between various desktop computers.
I get jammed up when attempting to mount the share on the android.
I configure a dynamic port forward on the android ap for the fileshares (445), then forward it to the target computer (long press).
Then I go into cifsmanager, and I believe this is where I am having problems. I enter in localhost:32973/My Documents. I also tried "10.0.0.1/My Documents" and "10.0.0.1:32973/My Documents" all with and without credentials, and also tried dropping the share.
Can anyone please help me out with this?
Thank you!
Reference: http://www.neorouter.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4548
Did you have any luck...I too can see my computers from Android...but can't seem to do anything with the connection besides look their names...
i have about 40GB of pics but mainly word documents on a network share that i can access several differnt ways on my android phone using wlan and cifs, esfile explorer. how ever all word ducments open in read only so if i make change the doc must be saved to my device rather then my network.
i dont believe this to be a permission issue on the windos based machine and i have tested this on different windows os's including 7, vista and xp all with the same results.
how ever i do have read/write permission with .txt files. unfortunenatly i need to work with word docs.
also, i have tried a few different apps on my android to work with the docs, including docs to go, but nothing is working
i also tried using cifs to mount the network "drive" to my sd card and it seems to mount ok but when i go to access the mapped drive my file explorer app wont even see anything in the mounted drive that is a folder on my sd card. i have to use a network capable file explorer like esfileexplorer and i end up with the same read-only error.
i cant say that i have done anything correctly so please keep this in mind with any advice that may be offered.
so in a nut shell, i need to be able to read/write word docs on my network, not on the road, but while on the lan.
i have the evo, with cm7 final
I'm trying to access my Shield storage over the network.
I tried using ftp server tools but none of them worked, including es file explorer. They would connect but fail to get me a directory listing. I got ssh sftp server to work, but I can't read any external drives.
I can read the internal Shield drive (the 16 GBs). But I have external drives connected over USB that I want to access. It looks like there is a permission problem. When I change to access the external drives, I can see them in the directory listing but clicking on them and traversing them I get an error. I'd probably have to set it up so the ssh user has root access, but than I'd need to root my device.
My local apps like Kodi can see and access the external drive, its only my sftp server user that cannot.
Is there a simple way to access external storage remotely?
I have the same issue. Did you finally find a solution?
Thanks.
Sam question here, anyone find a solution to this? Thanks!
I'm guessing either Google needs to fix this in their next release, or we'd have to root the box so we can set the permissions for the ftp server to an elevated level.
Hi all. Looks like I'm 3+ years late to this conversation . Not sure if I should have created a new thread instead?
But I got a shield recently, and I have a similar (not same) issue. I *can* access the external drive with sftp (using installed ssh server that I can't find in google play store any more).
However, access to the drive is read-only. I can't upload anything, or delete anything, etc. Through that sftp, I have full access to the internal 16gb drive.
Initially, ES File Explorer also couldnt write to the external drive either. I was able to 'unlock' it to make it work, using these instructions:
https://forums.geforce.com/default/...-es-explorer-fail-error/post/4782494/#4782494
Anyone know how to make that same popup to unlock the ssh server's write access to the drive? Or to unlock write permission to the drive in general, system-wide?
I'm not rooted or anything by the way.
I suppose, alternatively, I can turn on some FTP server capabilities within ES on the shield?
Hello!
I am having a surprisingly difficult time finding anything about this that isn't from 2011 or earlier. A lot of apps on my phone will ONLY let you browse local folders (ie: /storage/emulated/0/) and that's it. I know that some file explorers let you browse your network folders but that isn't what I need. I need one of my Windows 10 folders to show up under /storage/emulated/0/whatever because a lot of apps won't let me browse on the network. Long story short, I need to map a network drive on my phone.
I am rooted and have an unlocked bootloader on the stock ROM. I am pretty good at figuring this stuff out on my own but the only results I find are from a very old app called CIFS Manager which does not work on recent phones. Does anybody know any way I can accomplish this? I would greatly appreciate it!
I use Root Explorer from Speed Software (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speedsoftware.rootexplorer). It allows you to connect and manage files on SMB drives (Windows shares) as well as Google Drive, Dropbox, USB, etc etc
Thanks; I am aware of Root Explorer but that's not what I need. I need a way to mount a network folder as a local folder, so that every app (even those without network support) can access the files.
Best suggestion I can make is to build a kernel module to load ntfs-3g, then mount via a script.
I've just bought a T95Q and would like to be able to put BBC iPlayer downloads onto it but from a Laptop / PC over the network and believe it needs a \\sambadroid\usb\storage ........ type of address as opposed to being able to enter an IP address for say an FTP server.
I setup Sambadroid and was able to save it as a network location but if ever I tried to copy anything like a film to it from the laptop there was a write access error.
I googled and found various videos on how to change read / write access and used ES File Manager to drill down into System and Build Prop ... I also enabled execute as well as read and write and it bricked when I tried a download.
Someone suggested using Total commander and Paragon ... when I clicked on the drive in Total Commander I received a message saying .... contact my vendor as com.android.documentsui isn't installed .... but also with these tools I think I can only do it via FTP transfer which again isn't recognised.
I've seen a number of threads / videos saying enable write access to "Documents" which should appear in my list of apps but doesn't and I'm guessing is referring to above .... com.android.documentsui isn't installed .... and is where the problem is.
If anybody knows how I can do this to save the storage as a network location / mapped drive for easy access / file transfer from the laptop would be much appreciated .... or am I trying to achieve something that can't be done.