On my Macbook (OSX Lion 10.7) I have samba sharing on :
System Settings -> File Sharing ON -> Windows sharing ON
my home folder shared only as my userid.
NO Android app (AndSMB, ES File Manager, Astro, etc. ) connects with my Mac unless I share the folder anonymously (which is not desired).
When I connect any app over SMB with a Ubuntu Linux SMB server it connects flawlessly.
Is this a known Android issue ?
It's a OS X Lion issue. The SMB implementation in Lion is pure garbage. I've had nothing but issues with it. What I ended up doing was disabling Lion's smb sharing and compiling my own version of samba 3. There are numerous threads on the web on how to do this.
Snow Leopard 10.6 has the same issue (my girlfriend's macbook). But connecting from another SMB client (iPad with Filebrowser app or a Linux Ubuntu client) works well.
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The built in media apps are supposed to be able to connect to SMB shares, but I've yet to be able to connect to my WDTV Live using any of them. I haven't tried setting up any Windows shares to see if the combination fares any better.
I can, however, connect using ES File Explorer and ASTRO. ES File Explorer is actually able to find the SMB share on its own (smb://192.160.0.12). With ASTRO I need to specify the address. In any case, both apps can connect, I can copy, paste, and otherwise interact with the WDTV.
Unfortunately, whenever I run one of the stock media apps, it never finds any SMB shares.
I tried cifsManager, but based on the error messages, neither 2.1 or 2.2.1 on the A101 comes with its own cifs.ko. Perhaps one could be built for the A101, but that's beyond my level of knowledge right now.
The WDTV Live is running stock WD firmware. I've been thinking about loading brad's firmware, but I don't know if that will make any difference with this issue.
Any thoughts on what needs to be done to get this all up and running so I can stream right from my WDTV, rather than copying from it and then playing the video?
only works with dnsnames (as far as i know).
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, from Windows machines I am able to connect to the WDTV at '\\wdtvlive'.
I'm running DD-WRT on an Asus WL-520GU. Is there anything I can do with that to resolve the issue with the A101? Maybe setting up something with DNSmasq?
heard the same from some other users using a IOMEGA HDD NAS.
I have no problems using SMB with a Buffalo & Linksys NAS but I'm interesting in the solution of this issue.
So it seemed to be working with the latest firmware update, except that it's unbelievably slow at listing the share contents.
Now, after a reboot, it's either listing contents even slower, or it's not working past log in to the WDTV.
I have a home network that I use for my house and my home based consulting business. In the environment I have an iomega NAS drive, a Windows Home Server, a Small Business Server 2010, a Windows 2008 R2 Server and multiple Notebooks running Windows 7 and a few running Windows XP. I want to be able to mount or access a SMB share located on either the Windows 7 Notebooks or the WHS Box to on my Evo View 4G via Wifi. I have tried downloading several applications from the market place and nothing seems to work properly. Even supplying the proper credentials when asked does not work. Does anyone know of a step by step guide to doing this or can possibly help me to figure out where I am screwing it up?
Have you tried using Astro and its SMB add-on?
I'm a fan of ES File Explorer. I access my Linux server and another file share on a Windows box through it. Never had an issue.
I've used Astro with the SMB add-on from the market and it worked on my WHS, give it a shot.
ES File Explorer works great with SMB.
Astro SMB pouting keeps crashing on me.
I also use UPnPlay to stream video to Flyer from Twonky media server using VPlayer
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AndSMB. Works great for me.
ES File Manager sounds interesting.
Astro SMB crashes on me also.
ES File explorer
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I have tried using Netfront Life Connect and it connects to the Iomega NAS without an issue and will play the AVI movies on the device.
ES File Explorer gets a login failure no matter how I provide the username, either devicename\username or domainname\username or just username. This is trying to access a notebook running Windows 7. Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Hey there,
I'm looking for an actual Windows Remote Desktop app to connect directly to my job's server. I know one exists on iPad, but I haven't found the Android equivalent. I need something that supports all the options just like in the Windows Remote Desktop Connection's Advanced settings such as:
RD Gateway server settings
User Name
Server name
Domain/computer
What I am NOT looking for are apps that must have software (like a VNC server) installed on the host computer, e.g., Splashtop Remote. It must use standard Windows RDP.
If you have any experience with such apps, please list them!
Thanks a lot.
I use Remote RDP by Yongtao Wang (in the Market). There is a lite version (Remote RDP Lite) that you can try that has most of the features (minus audio, I believe). It is very fast and is a true RDP client that uses Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol. It also works very well on my tablet.
Hi all,
I have a samba file sharing server running on Raspberry mini computer.
But I have a problem when accessing shared files with Android. I can view files, play mp3s etc. with Windows and IOS. But can't view with Android.
What can cause this, please help..
No one?
I use ES file explorer to access Windows shares.
transferring files from android to windows share is so slow via smb:// at 180 KB/s.
But downloading files from windows to android is fast enough, at 2.5 MB/s.
I have to run an ftp server on Windows in order to transfer files faster from android to windows share.
Is there a way to make samba faster than 180 KB/s ?
If you're transferring small files, SMP protocol is painfully slow (just as with all MS products like MTP, NTFS etc...).
So when doing your benchmark from and to the device, try using a single large file.