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?
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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've found tons of remote desktop apps, but is there anything that will just access my filesystem? Hopefully as clean and as intuitive as astro or es. Maybe I'm just searching the wrong stuff, maybe astro and es can do this but i don't know how.
note: i want to be able to do this from the internet, not the same network.
Thanks all
if you mean access your tab from somewhere else then it is possible. you could ftp into it by using the ftp server app on your tab and note down the external ip.
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Depending on what you are trying to do there are various solutions. To access my tab from my desktop I use WiFi File Explorer. To access my computer files remotely I use Tonido and PocketCloud Explore.
I use PocketCloud Explore to access my file system. It works great.
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jacorso said:
Depending on what you are trying to do there are various solutions. To access my tab from my desktop I use WiFi File Explorer. To access my computer files remotely I use Tonido and PocketCloud Explore.
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+1 for WiFi File Explorer, too. That's also a great app.
Personally I suggest setting up a ftp server. It is very versatile and can be accessed anywhere in the world with an Internet connection.
Mozilla has a good, easy, and and most importantly free one called FileZilla. Both astro and es have ftp support so getting to your files will be easy, and seemless.
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I'm a lazy bastard. I use either SSHFS or SMB/CIFS. FTP is not as secure as SFTP.
If you have a SSH server on the host, you can FUSE mount it as a file system over SSH by way of SSHFS. My tablet can both mount hosts (sshfs package in Debian chroot) and be mounted by my PCs, netbook, etc. SFTP is also possible but wasteful IMHO.
SMB/CIFS - Windows network shares. You can access files on machines using a client. You can access your /mnt/sdcard from another machine by installing a server on your tablet.
I use "Samba Filesharing" from the market place and can access my tablets storage from PC perfectly fine. Like wise a client can be used to access a Windows box or a unix box or Android device with Samba (or simillar server). I use File Manager HD (menu->LAN connection) or SharesFinder to access network shares from my tablet. Astro has a plugin for it, just go to the market and Google. On my PCs, I use Windows Explorer and Samba (client) to access files on my tablet.
The Prime ROM also comes with CifsManager, which can mount file systems over the same protocol and make them appear as part of your tablets storage. So two way is possible very easily. PC's can do the same to the tablet when running a server like Samba.
In my experience: SMB/CIFS isn't as good as SSHFS for such stuff but when Windows is in the mix, it's best, and works better with Android than FTP or NFS, and is perhaps the most reliable.
For any access via the Internet you may have to configure port forwarding on your router (both at home and e.g. at work) to your machine. SSHFS/SFTP works best for that, FTP and SMB/CIFS are greater configuration pain, depending on your packet filters.
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Some of you were a little off... I want to access files on my desktop from my TF. Sounds like ftp is going to be it.
Thnx all
I use FileManager HD to access my NAS and other shared computer files.......it's easy to configure, has great functionality, looks good, and is free.
Hi,
I was hoping to use the tab plus as an ebook reader among other things. I noticed that I can't sync it with Calibre. I'm fine with the ebook app on here but how do I side load epub files?
I tried emailing them to myself and seeing if I could download but Gmail says there is no app on the device that can read this file. I know this is not true though.
just copy the files to your tab and import the book from reader
how do I do that? It doesn't seem like I can mount the tab as a mass storage device. All it allows for is MTP mode. This doesn't seem to mount on Mac OSX.
you can use airdroid or any wifi explorer in market to transfer via wifi.... since 7+ used honeycomb it cant be mount as mass storage device.
Great, I'll give that a try thank you!
Um, guys, you know that Calibre has a mini-webserver capability now for the library right?
So... server + wifi + browser = no problem, I even use it with my kobo touch and it's browser and haven't hooked up to my computer for book syncing pretty much since that capability was added.
The only real drawback about the calibre server is that there's no builtin multiple select to download all at once, but I'd never really considered that until just now as I'm usually just pulling one title/document at a time.
Also you can email them to yourself, that's what I do when my cable is not present. Then go into astro (or any file manager would likely work) and move them to the ebook/import folder on the onboard storage. That part might not be necessarily but even if it isn't I just like have my books in the ebook folder.
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).
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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).
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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.
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.