Is there a way to use windows shares on android ?

[Guest Stevvie]

Is there a way to share files seamlessly on the android OS. I have a few SMB shares on my PC, which I share with my xbox and windows 6.5 PocketPC(although I use this very little now). Is there a way to use the shares on an android device with needing things like file expert or another SMB compatible file manager ? I would preferably like to mount these shares so that my device can see them to view the pics and play the music in any viewer/player.

Thanks

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

you have to use ssh

[Guest nrev]

you have to use ssh

Astro file manager with additional SMB module. Free from the market.

[Guest Stevvie]

you have to use ssh

is there an easy way to do this ? and would any viewer/player see the shares ? My only experience of ssh is ipod/iphone and to push files to devices. I've been using file expert and thats great for copying files, but I wanted to know if there was a way to use stuff on my shares in any program via mounting my shares just like in windows mobile ?

My understanding was that astro manager with the SMB module only worked in astro manager to view/copy/delete files on the shares just like file expert does. Does this actually allow other programs to access the shares ?

Edited March 29, 2011 by Stevvie

[Guest alweekes]

Is there a way to share files seamlessly on the android OS. I have a few SMB shares on my PC, which I share with my xbox and windows 6.5 PocketPC(although I use this very little now). Is there a way to use the shares on an android device with needing things like file expert or another SMB compatible file manager ? I would preferably like to mount these shares so that my device can see them to view the pics and play the music in any viewer/player.

Thanks

Estrongs File Explorer does this nicely without any plugins.

Edit: sorry, see you want to mount them permanently as part of the file system, not sure how to do that, ES File Explorer will remember the mounts and passwords though, so you can easily browse and, for example, play music from them.

Edited March 29, 2011 by alweekes

[Guest Stevvie]

This is MUCH MUCH easier than I first thought. so for anybody finding this post though the search function here's what to do. As long as your rom has CIFS support (I use FLB-Froyo G2 R11 which does) then download and install Cifs Manager from the market and then just add your shares, replacing the pc name with the actual IP address. then the mounts can be permanent every time you boot the phone the shares are mounted. Now EVERY program can see them.

PS. I did try mount manager but that was too convoluted and didn't work, Cifs manager is MUCH easier to use.

[Guest galorin]

Assuming you have something installed that provides cifs.ko, or otherwise have it in /system/lib/modules/`uname -r`, and can insmod it, then once you have opened a root terminal or ssh'd in to your device, issuing the following command will mount your share to a spot on the sdcard, in this example, /sdcard/cifs.

mount -t cifs //IP Address/Share /sdcard/cifs -o username=$SHAREUSER,password=$SHAREPASS

Please note, I have not tested this out, but it's how to do it on Linux.

edit: It should also be scriptable, so can be connected to an executable, and run on, say wifi connecting

Edited April 1, 2011 by galorin