Okay, so here's my question. In an office environment, where there are several businesses with all of their own server connection and wifi connection, how do you figure out which is which, when you're at your office PC and trying to connect the phone with your work PC? I still haven't been able to find a way to do this easily and haven't found a benefit for switching from using Solid Explorer vs. ES File Explorer. Could either you or jellyhead explain in detail exactly what the step-by-step process would be (whether trying to connect to PC, to see folders on the PC via the phone or vice versa)? I think that would help many who want to try this, but may not be able to understand.
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that you have your phone connected to your PC's network via a wi-fi access point. If not, disregard, and assume the following instructions are for one's personal network, with wi-fi, to which the PC and phone are connnected.
Preliminary work (again assuming,
on a Windows based PC):
1. Click Start, then "Run", and type
CMD in order to open a command prompt.
2. In the command window, type
ipconfig in order to obtain the PC's IP address
3. Figure out which drive, or folder, you wish to "share", and add sharing rights accordingly (easier to assign "Everyone" "Full Control")
Using EStrong's File Explorer to connect
1. Open File Explorer. If the "Tabs", more specifically, the "LAN" tab, is not displayed, press the "Menu" phone button, and press "Show Tabs".
2. Press the "LAN" tab
3. Press "Search"...when the PC name, or IP address, of the PC you wish to connect to is displayed, press it. If you are prompted for login/password, usually the format is what ever username is local to that PC, and then the password, or
PCname\username would all go into the username field.
4. Just like Windows Explorer, select the drive/folder of the file(s) you wish to access.
5. Once you find the file, either long press, or press the "Select" button for
press-to-highlight the desired file(s), and then press "Copy".
6. Press the "Local" tab, and again, just like Windows, select the drive/folder you wish to copy to, press "Operations", and then "Paste"