Hi, have been trying to share content on a Seagate freeagent external drive and access it with es on my transformer, so far no luck. I should mention that I have the drive plugged into a pogoplug device that works just fine withe the app provided but doesn't allow you to copy folders back and forth. So I figured try out es, can anyone tell me how to configure es to see the drive? Or even if its possible. Many thanks for Any help submitted. I did give es the IP of the drive/pogoplug but no luck.
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I have my seagate plugged into the USB of my Asus router..
I had to go into the control panel of the router and set permissions for access to the drive..
Then transfer this log in name and password into Es explorer, plus of course the i.p..
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Thanks for your reply, I will dive in there and see if I can do anything with my router. I could be back.
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Hi, have been trying to share content on a Seagate freeagent external drive and access it with es on my transformer, so far no luck. I should mention that I have the drive plugged into a pogoplug device that works just fine withe the app provided but doesn't allow you to copy folders back and forth. So I figured try out es, can anyone tell me how to configure es to see the drive? Or even if its possible. Many thanks for Any help submitted. I did give es the IP of the drive/pogoplug but no luck.
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what i can suggest is you connect your drive to your pc and share it then use ES, go to lan and connect to your pc and then you should be able to see your shared drive.
if you are on a mac i cant tell you how to share it,
so if you using a windows machine,
you can go to my computer -> right click on the external drive and select the sharing.
next you just have to find out what your private ip is.
you can do this by pressing the windows key + "r"
a window will pop up, type "cmd" then click "ok"
a black window pops up then you type "ipconfig"
a bunch of adaptors will show up just look for the words
IPv4 address...: 192.168.1.200 (it'll be in the format xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa)
once you got that you can use ES to go explore the share drive
click on the Lan tab, if it's not showing go to setting to enable it.
click new ->server ( you can try scan but sometimes doesnt work)
under server type in the ip address of your pc the one you just found.
fill in the user name and password of your pc. then you are good to go.
you should then be able to see all your shared folders on your pc including the shared external drive.
Or you can just get a NAS and that would make data sharing within your home network so much easier.
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Hi
I was wondering if its possible to map your phone as a network drive, i know you can do this vice versa with ES File manager but i was wondering if you could access your phone over a local network?
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Im not exactly sure what your after but is the 'websharing' app of any use?
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thanks! that seems like what i wanted more or less, although it looks like you cant actually map it as a network drive, I just wanted a way to access the phones memory over wifi using windows explorer.
wifi file explorer may do the trick...
Ive tried wifi file explorer.. works wel! Im sure websharing is a slight step up with additional features and you can view using explorer window..?
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I saw that this was an old post but I though i would answer anyway if you havn't found what you were looking for ^_^
Samba Filesharing adds your sdcard as a removeable drive in "Computer"
use "File Expert"
its free and have all the features, you are looking for ..
Samba Filesharing
As said earlier: You should look for Samba Filesharing (i found it somewehere on XDA, but not in X10 subforums). It does exactly what you're asking.
I'm using it alot. When at home, i simply enable wifi, which triggers Sambafilesharing to be enabled as well. Then, from PC i have a mapped networkdrive to \\android\sdcard.
On X10 the user and password can be changed.
It takes the IP adres from Wifi, if you map a network drive, then you may want to use static ip.
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fileExpert is the other way round. You can acces samba shares with your phone. But TS wants to access phone as a drive.
That's it. Real handy. Good luck!
im stumped.
All i want to do is move over a video and some music files from my pc to my Transformer tablet using the USB charging cable. My pc is running XP.
I dont have dock/keyboard or an sd card. Just my tablet. I figure i could do this with the usb charging cable. My tablet should show up as a mass storage drive on the pc right?
went to the site to install drivers. Asus sync works, so does my Splashtop remote. I also downloaded a zip file called "ASUS Android USB drivers for windows" and a RAR file called "pc suite_v1_0_18".
asus usb driver i got some MTP error
pc suite i got error "application failed to initalize properly (0xc0000135)
I figure this would be simple. I figure "Pc Suite" should help me move files? I dont know what it is since it wont install. or maybe i could use splashtop? I really dont know.lol All i want to do is move over some files through the usb cable. 15+ experience with computers and I'm embarresed asking all this.
You rebooted both devices?
Wifi explorer also works.
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rbaucom said:
You rebooted both devices?
Wifi explorer also works.
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guess i'll give wifi explorer a try. who uses usb anyway right? lol
but I should be able to use usb though right? isn't it supposed to show on my pc as a drive along with the other drives under 'my computer'?
it should also show up as a drive in my computer. like you mentioned. all the other android builds show device as a drive. I would say driver issue
I don't know the size of your video but on smaller files I'll just use dropbox.
Now if someone can tell me how to do it on a mac I'll be happy. I have 4 other android devices and all mount fine.
It just gets mounted as a standard USB drive when I plug my TF into PC, just copy files as you would with any thumb drive
Go market install ES File Explorer, its Free
Create a share folder or setup a share on existing folder on your PC
Go to the LAN mode of ES File Explorer on your tab and scan for new server, select the server or IP address on the same network
there you go, can copy file from PC to tab...no root needed
CHeers
Adb push? Mounting doesn't work with Honeycomb, because they doesn't use FAT32 anymore. All data is in ext4 now.
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I dont have dock/keyboard or an sd card. Just my tablet. I figure i could do this with the usb charging cable. My tablet should show up as a mass storage drive on the pc right?(
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No - Honeycomb doesn't use USB mass storage, it uses MTP. If you are using XP, you should install Windows Media Player 10 at a minimum to gain MTP support.
Regards,
Dave
sharpfork said:
Now if someone can tell me how to do it on a mac I'll be happy. I have 4 other android devices and all mount fine.
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The Mac doesn't natively support MTP. You need this.
Regards,
Dave
THANKS for all the responses so far!
I've only had a droid phone (Optimus V) for 3 months. Its my first smartphone and now i've stepped it up to this tablet. Not rooted.
To clarify my original post I'm trying to move a large movie file to my tablet and give Vital player a try. The info provided by the responses so far have been a big help.
THANKS again for helping a noob out.
Very simple, but not least expensive.
I use a Tonido plug ( ubuntu based server) on my network ( always on) to store any files I want to share. I can have access and stream from it on my local wifi network or remotely via direct IP connect. Using ES file Explorer, it looks like just another drive on my network, Store my music there then just stream to TF over network no TF storage needed,.
Is there a way to have my TF be able to see other computers on the home WLAN (like we do from our laptops) and be able to access files from shared directories on those computers?
I want to copy files from laptop to TF to take away with me, but the current microSD and Dropbox methods are slow and patchy, respectively.
You could try " es file explorer," it has a LAN feature that you and use to access your files
thanks - that did the trick!
+1 on the ES FileExplorer. I use it, and its very good.
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Is it possible to create something like a windows share folder with android so i can use my tablet with dock as sort of a laptop. I can access files from windows shares and from my server share (which is not windows) but it doesnt go the other way. I would also like to be able to transfer files to my GS3 Mobile from my transformer.
Right now my pc is in the shop and my trasformer is basically my new laptop as my last one just died and my desktop is in the shop (i dont want to get into it but i basically should have built my own desktop this time i didnt anyway...)
So yeah is it possible? other than say dropbox as currently thats the only type i can find to do such a thing. But i want more of a network share.
Any help would be appreciated.
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If your tablet is rooted you could use "Samba Filesharing" app to share your SD as a windows network drive.
I don't know any apps that can do that without root priviliges though.
Another option would be sharing the SD content through an FTP server (I have no recommendations for specific programs though).
domsj said:
If your tablet is rooted you could use "Samba Filesharing" app to share your SD as a windows network drive.
I don't know any apps that can do that without root priviliges though.
Another option would be sharing the SD content through an FTP server (I have no recommendations for specific programs though).
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thank you
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domsj said:
If your tablet is rooted you could use "Samba Filesharing" app to share your SD as a windows network drive.
I don't know any apps that can do that without root priviliges though.
Another option would be sharing the SD content through an FTP server (I have no recommendations for specific programs though).
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How do you set up your SD card as a network drive? I have Samba set up, but I can't access my sd card from there, I have to send things to the downloads folder in the internal storage
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How do you set up your SD card as a network drive? I have Samba set up, but I can't access my sd card from there, I have to send things to the downloads folder in the internal storage
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menu button -> settings -> Other Fileshare Settings -> Second Shared Folder is probably what you're looking for.
only caveat is that it only allows sharing of extra sd cards with vfat formatting, so it was a no go with my 64GB but worked fine with the 16GB I have.
I'm using an app called 'FTP Server'. Free and simple to use. Your android device will act as an FTP server once the 'button' is activated. Use a FTP client on Windows to enter the address, username and password. There's also a method of setting up a new network (via 'add a new network') to appear as a folder when opening up 'Computer' to see the list of your drives. However, I don't like that being visible all the time, hence the reason I just connect via a FTP client.
The only downside is that FTP isn't that secure. SFTP and FTPS is meant to be more secure. I don't know the specifics, maybe someone else with more knowledge can help inform you. I reckon it's fine for activating, transferring some files, then turning off.
Is it possible to share files (transformer- windows 7 laptop) over wifi with no wifi home-network set up? I dont have a wifi home network and my usb cable/the transformers cable port works only for charging (tried everything), but is there aa way to connect the tf directly with wifi to a pc/laptop?
Yes with dnla service for musics and videos.
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transformador said:
Is it possible to share files (transformer- windows 7 laptop) over wifi with no wifi home-network set up? I dont have a wifi home network and my usb cable/the transformers cable port works only for charging (tried everything), but is there aa way to connect the tf directly with wifi to a pc/laptop?
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X-plore allows you to do what you want.
Download from google pay. :good:
transformador said:
my usb cable/the transformers cable port works only for charging (tried everything)
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This may help (shameless plug). Sounds like the same issue I had. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2324488
stephane.papin said:
Yes with dnla service for musics and videos.
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DLNA standard does not allow file copy or write on either host or client . But if you just want to "stream" a file then it works perfectly.
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Airdroid
transformador said:
Is it possible to share files (transformer- windows 7 laptop) over wifi with no wifi home-network set up? I dont have a wifi home network and my usb cable/the transformers cable port works only for charging (tried everything), but is there aa way to connect the tf directly with wifi to a pc/laptop?
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Airdroid works for me. You can find it in google apps.
airdroid alternatives...
MrBrown72 said:
Airdroid works for me. You can find it in google apps.
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I like airdroid too...very clean and user friendly intuitive interface but sometimes doesn't complete the transfer of really big files...
For alternatives: you can use smb, ftp servers like
1) ES file explorer:
--it has an ftp server.
--just start the server and type the ftp:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.port number) into any browser or even windows' own file manager/explorer
--good thing about ES is that you can select only which folder you want to serve (best when you want to serve your files to other but don't want others to have access to your entire phone).
--you can all be connected to the same wifi network or you can use hotspot or access point mode on your android device. You're pc can connect straight to the phone.
2) File expert:
--my original favorit. just like ES but recently it's been asking for a ton of permissions...(could be due to all the added features...),..if you're ok with these...it's still one of the easier apps to use...just long press on a folder and select share via web or ftp and you're done...
3) Syncme:
---if you have an smb server on your pc, this is perfect. sync entire folders at once between your android device and your pc.
Hope these help