It seems I can mount SMB shares very easily on a few different programs. But when it comes to editing the file and saving, it doesnt stick. It looks like it does, and it has writing "enabled" but it seems to only read it. I wanted to see if there was a solution for editing/saving pdf/word/excel files on a network share without rooting. But so far that seems to be the only option..
Do you really mean "mount" because you can read from/write to an SMB share without ever mounting it as a filesystem.
Mounting is the process of making a resource available as a filesystem within the local directory structure (Hence "mount point")
E.G. ES explorer contains an SMB client that allows you to browse a remote SMB share, but it does not mount the SMB share. Hence the share is not available to any other apps that can only see the local file-system.
Additionally, actual mounting requires system-level privileges (AKA root)
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Hey, I'm writing my first Android app, which is more or less going to be a mount point manager. Local mounts and NFS mounts have been easy, but I'm not sure of how to go about CIFS shares.
Ideally, after selecting a host, a list of CIFS shares would be displayed. At the bare minimum, I should be able to enter a CIFS URI/share string and mount it (eg: //192.168.1.100/mount_point). I'm thinking of EStrongs, where you can select a host, and it will display shares, which you can then further explore.
I've seen jCIFS (I think this is what Astro uses), and I've seen mention of the cifs.ko module on xda. Are there any other standard approaches? Any tips/recommendations on how to go about using jCIFS or cifs.ko and doing this in general?
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
Is it possible to mount a remote file system, either SMB/Samba/CIFS, NFS or SSHFS?
If so how?
Do I have to root to do this?
The big question is what you are trying to do/access on the remote share.
From the way your question was phrased, it sounds like you just want system wide access. It would probably be easier just to get specific apps with remote share support for what you're trying to do.
There are quite a few file explorers and media players that have the SMB client support you're looking for.
ES file explorer and Solid Explorer both have share drive access that you can setup.
I've been using BSplayer for videos and it also has SMB support. I'm sure that plenty of others have it as well.
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Going this route also means that you shouldn't need root access to reach the network shares.
darksabre_x said:
The big question is what you are trying to do/access on the remote share.
From the way your question was phrased, it sounds like you just want system wide access. It would probably be easier just to get specific apps with remote share support for what you're trying to do.
There are quite a few file explorers and media players that have the SMB client support you're looking for.
ES file explorer and Solid Explorer both have share drive access that you can setup.
I've been using BSplayer for videos and it also has SMB support. I'm sure that plenty of others have it as well.
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Going this route also means that you shouldn't need root access to reach the network shares.
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Is there some reason I don't want system wide access?
It seems to me that requiring apps to have some kind of remote access would limit the apps I use.
What I mainly want is to treat remote files the same way I would treat local files in three circumstances: when seen in a file manager, when seen in an open dialog box, and when seen in a "save as" dialog box. The last two in particular for any app I wish to use not necessarily just those that are particularly enabled to do it.
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I don't mean to hijack the thread, but are there any roms or kernels available with cifs support? I've been looking around but can't seem to find anything...
Hi there,
I downloaded SSE and used it.
I want to know is there anything better than this? I want to install the best one.
Thanks
I like EDS a lot. You can open truecrypt containers you make on the PC with it (must use specific encryption etc...). If you have root you can also mount the volume directly on the device.
Most of these types of programs (that don't mount) cache up a part of, or all of the file locally so you can access it meaning there is an unsecured copy on the devices file system while you access it. With mount you open directly from inside the encrypted container bypassing that insecurity.
I think you have to have the pay version to mount, this is the free one:
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=eds
Also it will leave a notification in your notification area saying EDS is loaded but you can hide that by going to the app in settings -> apps and unticking the show notifications checkbox.
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?