[ale] finding Samba share on Linux

Jim Philips briarpatch.jim at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 20:38:12 EST 2011


Never mind. It worked on the second attempt.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>wrote:

> I can enter that in as a location on Nautilus, and it seems to log in to
> the share. But Nautilus doesn't then show me the files. It just shows my
> home directory on my computer.
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Sparr <sparr0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If "\\ANDROID" works in Windows then "smb://ANDROID" should work in
>> most linux file browsers. If not, then there's something funky going
>> on behind the scenes with that app.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > There is an app for Samba filesharing now on Android. But the
>> instructions
>> > for it are for Windows. You can just enter \\ANDROID in the run bar in
>> > Windows and it will start connecting wirelessly. Any idea how I would
>> get
>> > Linux to connect? I poked around in Ubuntu but didn't see any obvious
>> way to
>> > get it to connect.
>> > Nice app, by the way. Lets you manage files on the SD card without
>> > connecting any cables.
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