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've read this thread and tried all the ways suggested by others and it still isn't working right
I've got it seeing my files on my computer, but when I tap on the folder that I've chosen to share, it pops up an errir saying "this account has no permissions"
How do I fix that?
Thanks in advance!
I was actually more interested in managing the files on the phone from my pc. Anyone that point me in the right direction. I can now manage the files, from my phone, on my pc and I have a working wifi connection from my phone, but my pc doesn't seem to recognize the phone - at least no in Explorer or when trying to Add a new network device...
Anyone?
For this purpose, I use SwiFTP FTP Server: SwiFTP FTP Server - Android app on AppBrain .
You can basically make your handset into an FTP based network drive. You can access this network drive via your computer.
I mean, will the phone show up as a folder that can be browsed in Exlorer?
wifi is on
firewall is off..
i followed some advices over the net to enable SMB
the program finds the computer.. when I try to connect I always get the message
Failure
-Wifi is down
-SMS is out of reach (is in 20cm)
-IP is wrong
-Firewall is on
-SMB service is off...
I am trying with this for a week now without results.. is there any other program to connect my mobile to the PC and stream my media from PC to mobile?
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