Guest remlap Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 Hi anyone help with setting up CifsManager? Share Path I have 192.168.1.2/Documents Mount Point: /mnt/cifs/Documents Username, Password, Options fields left blank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rvdgeer Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 Hi anyone help with setting up CifsManager? Share Path I have 192.168.1.2/Documents Mount Point: /mnt/cifs/Documents Username, Password, Options fields left blank. Yeah, I have some difficulties getting it to work too... Thank you for starting this topic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest remlap Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 The folder in /mnt/cifs/Documents is being created. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HunteronX Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 (edited) Yeah, I have some difficulties getting it to work too... Thank you for starting this topic! Have a look here: http://android.modaco.com/content/advent-v...-custom-kernel/ At the bottom, see my post. Where it says ES explorer, this is just Estrongs file explorer from the market. You may also need to enter your pc's username and password. Try it out. I also recommend using root explorer, also from the market, for creating the folders. If you don't have it, get 'Terminal Emulator' from the market, run it and type in "su" (without speechmarks) A superuser popup may appear. Choose 'Allow'. Next type in, for example: "mkdir /mnt/cifs/Documents" This would be for remlap's case. The layout is just like this: "mkdir /mnt/cifs/FOLDERNAME Now close the application and try mounting the 'shares', simply by tapping them in CifsManager. If you have any other problems, make that the IP address entered is static. I'm not sure how to set that up though, so if anyone knows, please help. Sorry about the mess, though. I've been typing this on my Vega. Hope this helps! ;) Edited January 28, 2011 by HunteronX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HunteronX Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 The folder in /mnt/cifs/Documents is being created. Is nothing shown inside, or is there an error when trying to use CifsManager? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zzleezz Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 Must ask the obvious first, you have a shared folder on your network at the address 192.168.1.2 called documents? If yes, on that machine where the documents share folder exists do you need a username and password to login? On my computer I do, so in the username and password fields in ciffsmanager I enter them there. And one other thing, once in ciffsmanager I have created the share I had to click on it to activate it there. Hope some of that is of use ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest moreno40 Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 Hi anyone help with setting up CifsManager? Share Path I have 192.168.1.2/Documents Mount Point: /mnt/cifs/Documents Username, Password, Options fields left blank. Try //192.168.1.2/Documents dat workt for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest remlap Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 Is nothing shown inside, or is there an error when trying to use CifsManager? Mounting the share has failed with an error mount: Invalid argument Tried your suggestion moreno40 same error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HunteronX Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 Mounting the share has failed with an error mount: Invalid argument Tried your suggestion moreno40 same error. Try following the steps I posted, checking to see that you've done what zzleezz said too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rvdgeer Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 Mounting the share has failed with an error mount: Invalid argument Tried your suggestion moreno40 same error. Had this error too, a couple of times... But now it says: mount: connection timed out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest remlap Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 Given up also was not liking there are far more screen errors like little lines so gone back to the POV USB Host Kernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zzleezz Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 Given up also was not liking there are far more screen errors like little lines so gone back to the POV USB Host Kernel. Did you install the performance pack? I only get the screen errors you describe with rom version after 1.06 and the pp. Without it its perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kevlar0404 Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 The default mount command does not support cifs. The busybox version does. Try the following command in a terminal sessie (connectbot) busybox mount -t cifs -o username=xxx,password=yyy //computer/share /mnt/cifs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gingercat Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 I'm using cifsmanager and am setting mount point to be e.g. /sdcard/cifs/myshare Cifsmanager automatically creates the share and works perfectly for me. Did need to hold click on the entry and select mount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ptbw Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 I'm using cifsmanager and am setting mount point to be e.g. /sdcard/cifs/myshare Cifsmanager automatically creates the share and works perfectly for me. Did need to hold click on the entry and select mount. Cifsmanager is working for me. You can just touch the share entry in cifsmanager and the small icon on the end of the line goes green rather than long press to mount the share. I have connected to XP shares and smb shares on my linux nas but I have always needed to enter a user name and password. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest moreno40 Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Given up also was not liking there are far more screen errors like little lines so gone back to the POV USB Host Kernel. Hy remlap try mount manager that,s the one i use. and this is my config : sharepoint //192.168.1.45/movie mountpoint /mnt/sdcard/movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pombolo Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 I ve a Synology Nas and i ve tried to use it with CifsManager but i think i dont really understand how it works because it doesnt ;) In fact, i ve created a /mnt/cifs folder on the synology but CifsManager don t see it, so i suppose that s not the good way, somebody can explain please ? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gdwhitehouse Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 (edited) Pombolo - you don't create folders for this on your NAS... The mount point is like a 'virtual' folder on your Android device, when you navigate to it, you actually see the files and folder from your NAS. In cifsmanager you tell it the address of the share (this will be something like the ipaddress and the shared folder - 192.168.0.5/Public for example), you may need a username and password (same as you use to access the drive from your PC). Lastly you give it the mount point - that will be something like /sdcard/cifs/mynas, then cifsmanager should do the work. Long click on the entry you created and click mount, and Bob should be your uncle! Then when in an app (on your Vega) when you want to access a file on you NAS, just navigate to the sdcard, then to the folder called cifs, then into the folder called mynas and you should see your files. Hope that helps. G Edited January 29, 2011 by gdwhitehouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wobblydoggy Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Pombolo - you don't create folders for this on your NAS... The mount point is like a 'virtual' folder on your Android device, when you navigate to it, you actually see the files and folder from your NAS. In cifsmanager you tell it the address of the share (this will be something like the ipaddress and the shared folder - 192.168.0.5/Public for example), you may need a username and password (same as you use to access the drive from your PC). Lastly you give it the mount point - that will be something like /sdcard/cifs/mynas, then cifsmanager should do the work. Long click on the entry you created and click mount, and Bob should be your uncle! Then when in an app (on your Vega) when you want to access a file on you NAS, just navigate to the sdcard, then to the folder called cifs, then into the folder called mynas and you should see your files. Hope that helps. G In the case of above would public be in root of pc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gdwhitehouse Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 (edited) In the case of above would public be in root of pc? No, it wouldn't have to be in the root (but it could be). If it was a pc rather than a NAS it would be the name of the share you set up (like Public Folders) - so the pc's IP address followed by the share name. I must admit that I try to share folders without spaces in their name - just for simplicity. G Edited January 29, 2011 by gdwhitehouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wobblydoggy Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Managed to get it working by setting up a new user account username: share password: share then right clicked on C:\ drive and selected share with, then clicked everyone and it seemed to work. Is there any way i can link poweramp to my shared CIFS folder? as it only seems to let me pick folders from the SD card and not LAN folders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HunteronX Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Managed to get it working by setting up a new user account username: share password: share then right clicked on C:\ drive and selected share with, then clicked everyone and it seemed to work. Is there any way i can link poweramp to my shared CIFS folder? as it only seems to let me pick folders from the SD card and not LAN folders You'll have to change the mount path in CifsManager to an SDcard folder - e.g. /mnt/sdcard/music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pombolo Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Pombolo - you don't create folders for this on your NAS... The mount point is like a 'virtual' folder on your Android device, when you navigate to it, you actually see the files and folder from your NAS. In cifsmanager you tell it the address of the share (this will be something like the ipaddress and the shared folder - 192.168.0.5/Public for example), you may need a username and password (same as you use to access the drive from your PC). Lastly you give it the mount point - that will be something like /sdcard/cifs/mynas, then cifsmanager should do the work. Long click on the entry you created and click mount, and Bob should be your uncle! Then when in an app (on your Vega) when you want to access a file on you NAS, just navigate to the sdcard, then to the folder called cifs, then into the folder called mynas and you should see your files. Hope that helps. G Thanks a lot, now i understand how it works. But ... it s not working at all ;) , i have this message: "Mounting the share has failed with an error.mount: No such Device". The mount point is well created on the sdcard, the ip address and the shared folder are good, i use them with ES File Explorer without any problems. It seem that s a network problem, but what... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zzleezz Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Managed to get it working by setting up a new user account username: share password: share then right clicked on C:\ drive and selected share with, then clicked everyone and it seemed to work. Is there any way i can link poweramp to my shared CIFS folder? as it only seems to let me pick folders from the SD card and not LAN folders I tried to get poweramp to see the shares without luck. Both mortplayer and meridian worked fine but be careful how much data you point them at. My music folder runs to 76gig and getting them to index that much music over wifi almost choked my Vega :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gdwhitehouse Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Thanks a lot, now i understand how it works. But ... it s not working at all ;) , i have this message: "Mounting the share has failed with an error.mount: No such Device". The mount point is well created on the sdcard, the ip address and the shared folder are good, i use them with ES File Explorer without any problems. It seem that s a network problem, but what... You are really a bit beyond my knowledge level (read that as can someone else help please?) but it sounds a little like it is having trouble finding the mount point or sdcard - I assume you are letting cifsmanager create the folders etc - if you create them yourself everything is case sensitive. Best I can offer I'm afraid. G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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