ES File Explorer help needed

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Do you have Wi-Fi turned on?

Did you email developer?

 

Sorry for late reply.
Those days we're busy working for last version, and don't notice your question, sorry.
In most case the communication might be blocked by the firewall, on router or on the PC.
You can send mails to contact <at> estrongs.com if any more question.

 

Are you trying to get to a shared folder on your pc?

 

Has anyone found an answer to this yet? I am having the same trouble, I get error messages when trying to connect to my PC with Estrong. I contacted the Dev via his/her web site about a week ago and haven't heard back. I see lots of people saying they can do it successfully, but I am stumped.

I am running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit (Dev says it was tested with this ver and worked).

I have WiFi on. I have shared folders on my PC. I have file sharing on. I've also opened Port 137 in Windows Firewall.

I am using dynamic IP addresses, is this a problem? I get my current IP address from IPCONFIG each time I try to connect.

I am using the built in Windows 7 Firewall. Is there a setting a need to change? Win7 Firewall does not give any notices when I am trying to connect with Estrong.

After I create the server icon in Estrong using my IP address (with my username and password) when I press the icon to connect I get the error message "Network path not found, or time out, please try again".

If I try to create the server using the IP address and direct path to the shared folder like "192.168.1.100\\MYCOMPUTER\test" or "192.168.1.100\\c:\test" I get the error message "Error, can not find the server."

 

Same problem here. I have Googled til I'm bkue in the face. Bottom line, this will not work with Win 7. Uninstalled.....not near as good as Astro without PC feature working.

 

It's working fine for me...took me all of 3 minutes to set it up. I turned off the firewall for the Home/Private network. I'm running Win 7 Ultimate x86. Streaming music off my laptop as we speak.

 

I'm running Windows 7 64 Premium and it works just fine.

 

Windows 64 ultimate here. Is there any specific thing you guys did to get this working...aside from disabling the firewall(tried that)? I really want this to work.

 

Here's my steps for sharing my music:

On my PC
1) Right click My Music -> Properties -> Sharing tab -> Share button
2) Selected my username (not the Homegroup account)
3) Also click Advanced Sharing, check "Share this Folder"
3) Control Panel -> Windows Firewall -> Turn Windows Firewall On or Off -> turn off private network firewall (Public is on with "Notify me when Windows Firewall blocks an incoming connection" checked)

On my phone:
1) Open ES File Explorer -> Lan tab
2) Add new server
3) Server <ip of computer>/share name ex: 192.168.1.10/music
4) Your user name on the PC
5) Your password on the PC

This will not work if you aren't on your local WiFi. Unless you know what you're doing and setup a dyndns account and do some port forwarding...but then you've just opened up a big security hole

 

I didn't disable my firewall.

Select LAN tab, then menu and new server



When you see the menu, input your IP with username and password and hit ok



You should get an icon like this



After clicking the icon, you should be able to access your files

 

or add /sharename after the IP to map directly to a share

 

@HeroDroid: I did everything you did, and I still get those error messages.

For the record, my HDD is also partitioned, but I tried this with a shared folder on my C drive.

Does it have anything to do with the type of encryption used on the Router? I am using WPA-TKIP. Should that matter?

I will try again with the firewall off for private network (although I'd prefer not to).

Also, I have advanced file sharing set up so that to have access to my files you must have an account on the computer (thus the need to use the user name and PW to connect) so, for example, any of my family members trying to access my files from another computer in the house would either need to know my username and pw, or would have to be logged in to an account on the other computer with the same credentials. Could this be the problem?

 

No, that's how mine is setup as well.

 

Then there must be something else I'm missing, something about my network, my file sharing set up, or a bug with the version of ES File EX I DLed from the market. Perhaps I will try uninstalling and reinstalling.

 

I was having trouble with this as well as only some of my files were coming up but I followed momoceio's instructions and now have complete access. Thanks!!! This is a great program.

 

Thanks for the tips momoceio, unfortunately there is nothing I can seem to do to get it to work.

 

I'm running into a similar, but not exact problem, and I'm starting to wonder if there is a problem with how Estrongs is handling usernames and passwords. I'm running a Samba server on Linux with shares that are generally available and some that need a username and password to access. The generally available shares I can connect to without a problem, but if I try to access the /home share, I keep getting the "Error, cannot find server" message. I'm thinking this is an Estrongs problem since every other device I've tried can connect without any issue. Does anyone have any experience with Samba homes shares and Estrongs?

 

I just thought I'd update my post to say I've discovered what I think is a bug in File Explorer. I ran Wireshark on my Samba server to see if packets from File Explorer were actually reaching the server. When I logged into one of the shared accounts, it was clear packets were reaching the server. However, when I tried to log into my private account, absolutely no packets were seen. I created a different private account and found that I could log into that new account. A little bit more fiddling revealed that that presence of a question mark in the password of the original private account was causing Fex to not send any packets. If I eliminated the ? from the password, communication between Fex and the Samba server happened. So the upshot appears to be that non alphanumeric characters (or at least a ?) in passwords prevents File Explorer from making a connection.