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Has anyone managed to get Open VPN working on a Galaxy S? I have a SPICA on which it is working but I cant find a TUN.KO that works on the Galaxy S. Thanks

Also trying to find a proper TUN.KO for the Galaxy S.
No luck so far.

Read here: http://android.modaco.com/content-page/291919/openvpn-on-android/page/20/

None of the methods described for other phones worked for Samsung Galaxy S. I tried with several tun.ko and all where giving me "format errors" as the kernel was not matching.
Last resort, I compile it myself from Samsung I9000 kernel sources.
Tested it and worked. I know have OpenVPN in Galaxy S (I9000)!
I attach the tun.ko file. I hope other guys out there with I9000 can use it.

Excellent. Will give it a go. Which ROM are you running?

I'm currently running I9000BGF1, I will be soon upgrading to new Firmware.
Kernel Version: 2.6.29 [email protected] #2

Hi Chafw,
Can you talk me through where you put the tun.ko, and where you put your OpenVPN files in the directories? I'm getting no where fast on this!
Thanks
SA

Hi mittu1,
I believe you are already root and busybox/openvpn installed.
I used the same link that tids2k wrote above to setup the whole thing up.
I used openvpn-settings application for starting up openvpn configurations.
In openvpn-settings you can define where the tun.ko driver is located.
Anyway, the simplest thing to do firdst to test whether the tun.ko works for you is to
load it by hand using a root shell:
insmod <path to tun.ko>
I have it installed in /system/lib/modules/tun.ko.
Hope this helps.

The tun.ko is ok, it loads nicely. Many many many thanks !!!
In the "OpenVpn Settings" app, my connection ask me for a password, I see "auth", then nothing, I fall back in front of the "select to turn on OpenVPN tunnel" button.
I have tried with stock libcrypto.so and libssl.so, and then with those from openvpn-binary.zip at hxxp://sourceforge.net/projects/tunneldroid/files/
The OpenVPN app still don't want to establish the connection... In no ways... And no log message in dmesg at all (neither for tun)
So it's enough for this night, but if someone have an idea, you are (really) welcome !!!

Does the module have to match the kernel version exactly? Running european JM2,
kernel is 2.6.29 [email protected]3#2
PS. 1st Post

Do you copy tun.ko in the /lib/modules folder ? or in a new freshly created folder /system/lib/modules (as said on modaco guide) ?
On my system (XXJF3 / XXJF3 / XAJF3), I have no /system/lib/modules folder, and every time a mount in rw my /, then write tun.ko to /lib/modules, then remount in readonly, and then reboot the phone, the tun.ko file disappear...
Do I miss something ? Does the / mount point isn't a real partition ???
thnks in advance

@ Anduru:
No, don't think that is necessary but I'm also quite new to Android.
@raphman:
I created a new folder /system/lib/modules. I didn't have the directory either.
Anyway the OpenVpn-settings applications allow to define the location of the tun.ko. Haven't tried but I believe you could put it anywhere in the system.
Also, make sure the ifconfig and route commands are available and properly linked.

@chafw
thanks for your reply
meanwhile i just tried my luck and it worked.

Guys,
I'm glad it's working but I haven't managed it yet!!
I'm using the I9000XWJM2 rom, rooted! I've downloaded the tun.ko file, the open VPN Setting file off the market, and Open VPN installer. I've got the certs and config files.
Can some one please guide me through installation to get it up and running OR did people use the following link instructions
http://android.modaco.com/content/software/291919/openvpn-on-android/
Would really appreciate someone's help here.

Chaf, many thanks, but in fact, my installation was ok, it was a password problem... Arrrrgggggg !!!!!!!
So now I connect fine to my OpenVpn server, but I cannot reach any server withour using the "Fix DNS" problem.... Strange, because using the connection on my pc automacillay get the DNS given by the vpn....
Many thanks !!!

@raphman:
The DNS is a known issue in Android as OpenVPN uses update-resolv
hook scripts to update the resolv.conf configuration with the passed DNS parameters.
However, this does not work yet with in Android and Openvpn-settings.
You can either use fix-dns or add your hosts in the /etc/hosts file if they are
a limited number.
@mittu1:
Yes, that's the guide.

liblzo
I have got to the stage where my openvpn connection is started but no traffic is being passed through the tunnel. Checking around it seems that I am missing the liblzo.so file that handles compression. Can any of you guys post a working liblzo.so or confirm that your configuration does/doesn't use this file? Thanks.

mittu1 said:
I have got to the stage where my openvpn connection is started but no traffic is being passed through the tunnel. Checking around it seems that I am missing the liblzo.so file that handles compression. Can any of you guys post a working liblzo.so or confirm that your configuration does/doesn't use this file? Thanks.
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take it here and 1st step is SAVE your old files somewhere !!!
hxxp://sourceforge.net/projects/tunneldroid/files/openvpn-binary.zip/download
then cp in /system/lib and chmod 755. That's ok on my i9000.

hi,
It didn't work! Still same problem. Any other suggestions?

chafw said:
None of the methods described for other phones worked for Samsung Galaxy S. I tried with several tun.ko and all where giving me "format errors" as the kernel was not matching.
Last resort, I compile it myself from Samsung I9000 kernel sources.
Tested it and worked. I know have OpenVPN in Galaxy S (I9000)!
I attach the tun.ko file. I hope other guys out there with I9000 can use it.
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I tried the tun.ko and it works! Unfortunately my (Endian) firewall can only use a tap device, and apparently both ends have to match. I get the connection, but the the device and IP are never setup. Any chance you can either compile the tap device like you did the tun, or give me the steps so I can do it myself ?

Tun.Ko for Captivate

Has anyone been able to successfully re-compile a tun.ko for the captivate kernel?
Office still has old IPSEC group ID based vpn
Thanks.
[mods please move to development]

Trying my hand at building that module from the vanilla Eclair + Samsung code drop. Will let you know how it goes...

I used this tun.ko, installed openvpn with the openvpn installer from the market, and installed the VPN_Connections_v099.apk from code.google.com/p/get-a-robot-vpnc to manage the connections. I am able to connect to my cisco vpn concentrator with my captivate. Hope this helps...

where on the phone do we copy the tun.ko file?

I put mine in /system/lib/modules/ and openvpn in /system/bin/. I also installed openvpn settings from the market and enabled the "load tun kernel module" option and changed the "load module using" to insmod. For some reason it would not connect without this, I guess because the tun module is not being loaded correctly. Also you can manually load the module by typing “insmod /system/lib/modules/tun.ko” and check to see if it’s loaded by typing “lsmod” and you should see “tun 11088 0 - Live 0xbf195000”

This worked for me.
loaded it manually, not sure if it'll load automatically now or not, haven't tried it.

Can't get this working...
Do you have to start OpenVPN and manually load the tun before launching VPN Connections? Of course after all of these settings...

Still not working...
Okay, I can manually insert and load the tun.ko and installed the VPN Connections app to this version. Every time I try to connect, it INSTANTLY says 'failed to connect'. Any ideas? I have all the right things in all the right places...OpenVPN installed and configured (although I can't see how I need this with the tun.ko manually started and running). HELP! I really need VPN to work on this device or it is going back...

Great information in this thread. I have Busybox installed, Open VPN binaries installed and Open VPN settings installed as well as the Vpn_connection_99.apk file. One issue though!
HOW DO I MANUALLY DROP THE TUN.KO FILE INTO THE SYSTEM/LIB/MODULES FOLDER?
I tried to using Droidexplorer with no luck, so I copied it to the sd card and tried to copy paste it using Astro File Explorer with no luck either. How the hell do I get it into that folder? I'm rooted and running the JH7 captivate stock ROM.
I feel like once I get it in there, I can manually start the file and get this puppy up and going! I tried to put it into another folder and just point Open VPN settings to it there but it just won't work like that. It needs to be in the Modules folder!
Thanks in advance!

Ugh I've tried about everything and no luck with copying the tun.ko file into the system/lib/modules directory.
I've gained root access using adb shell and su commands and I don't receive any errors in the adb shell when I perform cp tun.ko system/lib/modules but it does not copy the file. I tried to chmod 777 the lib folder but was denied. I'm learning I may not have NAND unlocked for full root. I tried to manually start the module from my sd card but it won't work that way either.
Any suggestions?
EDIT: OK BIG IMPROVEMENT. I WAS ABLE TO WRITE THE TUN.KO FILE TO A DIFFERENT LOCATION IN XBIN AND POINT THE OPENVPN AT THIS. AFTER AN LSMOD CHECK I CONFIRMED IT'S RUNNING. CAN ANYONE HELP ME BUILD A VALID OPENVPN .OVPN FILE FOR CONNECTING TO MY VPN? IT'S A STANDARD CISCO ASA IPSEC VPN THAT HAS A GROUP NAME, GROUP KEY AND VPN ADDRESS.
Thanks!
Here is the link that got me able to install the module elsewhere for all you folks facing NAND issues and not able to install tun.ko in the system/lib/modules folder!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=793018&highlight=openvpn+config

Thread moved to Q&A.

OK. I've got true ipsec vpn working perfect on the captivate with the latest jh7 build. Cisco asa 5500 is the device being vpnd through.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Is anyone doing anything new and/or differently than what's been described in this thread to successfully connect to a Cisco VPN Concentrator? I know October is only two months back, but a lot can change in two months around here.
Also, there was a question on page 1 asking about whether the tun module had to be manually loaded each time or not. That was never answered. Can anyone shed some light on that, please?

Bunkaido said:
Is anyone doing anything new and/or differently than what's been described in this thread to successfully connect to a Cisco VPN Concentrator? I know October is only two months back, but a lot can change in two months around here.
Also, there was a question on page 1 asking about whether the tun module had to be manually loaded each time or not. That was never answered. Can anyone shed some light on that, please?
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Give me til tomorrow morning. I have EXACTLY what you are looking for. Consider donating if it helps... . It does need to be loaded each time but in the video I point at 2 apps that will make loading it literally a 3-5 second process and not involve you having to use a pc to load it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=871159

Reason for OpenVpn Settings
fixitsteve said:
Okay, I can manually insert and load the tun.ko and installed the VPN Connections app to this version. Every time I try to connect, it INSTANTLY says 'failed to connect'. Any ideas? I have all the right things in all the right places...OpenVPN installed and configured (although I can't see how I need this with the tun.ko manually started and running). HELP! I really need VPN to work on this device or it is going back...
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The reason I use OpenVpn settings is because when you restart the phone you have to reload the tun.ko and OpenVpn settings is an easy way to do that, it also fixes the dns after you disconnect from the vpn by going to setting and fix dns. The process I use to start the vpn is (starting from a cold boot of the phone)
1. I ALWAYS leave the check box in OpenVPN settings UNCHECKED (OpenVPN off) unless I'm starting the tun.ko after a boot. After the phone boots I open OpenVPN settings and check the box next to OpenVPN and wait a few seconds, then uncheck it. This loads the tun.ko and only needs to be done after a reboot.
2. go to VPN connections and click and hold the vpn connection you made to your VPN concentrator and click connect. (you should be connected at this point)
3. after you disconnect the dns on the phone may not change back automatically from the VPN dns servers, so go to OpenVPN setting and click setting and Fix DNS. You should be able to get out to the Inet again.

Cognition 3.04
Has anyone gotten this to work on the Cognition 3.04 ROM? I keep getting:
fatal:cannot allocate TUN/TAP dev dynamically

K, I don't know what I'm missing here. There's not word one about config files or their format in this thread but, as far as I can tell, this is a fairly worthless collection of bits without one.
I've reviewed the thread 3 times and searched the forums, where can I find formats for these mysterious conf files?

Some custom roms have tun.ko built in. I use Paragon RC6, based on speedmod kernel. To activate tun.ko I rebooted into recovery mode, chose speedmod tweaks and activated tun.ko, rebooted and installed OpenVPN Installer and OpenVPN Settings from the market. Then had to adb some symbolic links (google is your friend). After d/l'ing conf files from my commercial OVPN supplier and some editing the setup works very well.
Sent from somewhere with my Cappy/ParagonROM/OpenVPN

visionlogic said:
Some custom roms have tun.ko built in. I use Paragon RC6, based on speedmod kernel. To activate tun.ko I rebooted into recovery mode, chose speedmod tweaks and activated tun.ko, rebooted and installed OpenVPN Installer and OpenVPN Settings from the market. Then had to adb some symbolic links (google is your friend). After d/l'ing conf files from my commercial OVPN supplier and some editing the setup works very well.
Sent from somewhere with my Cappy/ParagonROM/OpenVPN
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If my ROM doesn't have tun.ko built in, is it possible to use from a different ROM?

Transferring apk's from PC to SD/NC

Hey guys, I downloaded some apk's and transferred them to my sd/NC.
I went into file manager located the apks and click to install and I get the following error "installation of download apks is not supported"

This may have something to do with permissions, but you also may want to give ADB a shot. I know it's a bit of a pain to set up, but someone in the dev. forums posted some simpler drivers. I always install with ADB and it works like a charm.

Check to make sure you have "Unknown Sources" checked under Applications in Settings.

Can also try installing with a different file manager, I use Astro and that works.

Tenburn said:
Check to make sure you have "Unknown Sources" checked under Applications in Settings.
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^^^^^^^^^
What he said.

RoboRay said:
^^^^^^^^^
What he said.
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i had the same issue with mine checked already, uncheck then re-check it fixed me up and for putting the apk's to nook may want to try dropbox makes things a hell of a lot simpler and here is a shameless plug to get me (and you some free space lol) use my referral link for extra 250mb of space http://db.tt/Zw55leX ;P

b00sted said:
i had the same issue with mine checked already, uncheck then re-check it fixed me up and for putting the apk's to nook may want to try dropbox
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Good point, you may need to uncheck and recheck it if it's automatically set to "checked" by default when flashing.
I keep a "new ROM setup" folder on my SD card containing DropBox, RootExplorer,Titanium Backup, adbWireless and Terminal Emulator APKs to make setting up a new system easy.

I download the apk, email it to myself, use the gmail app, open the file, tap install, done. Haven't had any issues with 24+ install. I got tired of ADB to push it.

can a file manager be use to install .apk's that are missing from the market place? currently im missing google maps. ive heard about market manager to trick the market and get the full listings, however should this not work, like some have stated, can i download the .apk from my computer and install it using a file manager?
also for the life of me i do not understand nor can i get adb to work. i know its probably real simple. but im done messing with it, so that option is out.

Same Problem
I've got the same problem. "Install blocked. Installation of download apks not supported."
I've tried all the above suggestions: gmailed it, used various filemanagers, Dropboxed it and no success. I could not figure out how to change permissions....how does one doe that?
I haven't tried ADB - waiting to try everything else before I did that.

Openvpn

I am setting up openvpn.
I have run into several problems.
- I'm not sure where to find the connection log, or routing table log.
- I'm not sure if it is using TAP or TUN.*
- not sure if I need tun.ko.
- my .conf file tells me that it looks for ca.crt and .login in /etc/openvpn. I'm not sure how to copy those files to /etc .
- not sure how to format the .login file.
I know that is a real laundry list. I have been searching for a couple hours. Is anyone familiar with setting openvpn up?

krustmother said:
I am setting up openvpn.
I have run into several problems.
- I'm not sure where to find the connection log, or routing table log.
- I'm not sure if it is using TAP or TUN.*
- not sure if I need tun.ko.
- my .conf file tells me that it looks for ca.crt and .login in /etc/openvpn. I'm not sure how to copy those files to /etc .
- not sure how to format the .login file.
I know that is a real laundry list. I have been searching for a couple hours. Is anyone familiar with setting openvpn up?
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You need a kernel that has tun.
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using xda premium

I think you are telling me that there is no pushing tun.ko to system because only the kernel can write to it?

krustmother said:
I think you are telling me that there is no pushing tun.ko to system because only the kernel can write to it?
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Tun.ko is compile when a kernel is compile and is kernel specific. My kernel has this.
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using xda premium

Thank you for clearing that up!

Openvpn running on Vivid
Setting up openvpn on htc vivid. How I did it, anyway...
Get root.
Install esfileelorer and terminal.
Install openVPN installer and openVPN settings.
It took a bit to figure out permissions, for me anyway, I copied the .ca certificate authority file, along with the .ovpn files that have my various VPN *server info in them to /etc/openvpn . *To auto-login, make a text file, call it password.txt or whatever. Open your .ovpn files, goto the --user-pass-auth line, add the name of your password file. Now it should work as long as you have permissions right.
My provider gives you a .ca and some .ovpn files. With a password.txt file, it should be enough.
This site gives some visual info. Not exactly the same as the open on I used. http://vpnblog.info/android-openvpn-strongvpn.html
The binary has to be loaded to /system/xbin. That broke ls or some other command. I was forced to re-link it. Other than that, I'm not sure if it's running TUN. It was stated above that tun.ko has to be proper. Looking into it.

cifs module for 3.1.10-g52027f9

================================(updated 25/07/2012)
recompile new cifs.ko based on code from linux kernel 3.2.1 (with asynchronous read support).
there is 2 extra function needed in part of the kernel (which is not in the current 3.1.10 kernel).
however that doesn't stop it from working.
i am not sure under what conditions those 2 function will be called. when its being called, it might give error.
apart from that, initial test shows promising result. doubled the read speed.
please test.
do note. YMMV
new cifs.ko has a md5sum of
280303e69a92cd56f180956c838edbbd
in
cifs-async.zip
thanks.
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updated,
i have re-compile a new cifs.ko with modified larger rsize, hopefully will have better read performance,
give it a try.
note: it appears that your NFS server needs to have support as well. so check out if you can set it to a bigger send buffer to have a faster read speed.
the md5sum for the new cifs.ko is
7a235de92c855b2933402dd1c62610fe
in
cifs_rsize_128k.zip
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(require root to work).
i have created cifs module for the new 4.1.1 kernel for nexus 7
3.1.10-g52027f9
use this in conjunction with cifs manager
both
md4.ko and cifs.ko must be loaded to work.
as for the native language support (nls_utf8.ko), its down to yourself.
to use it,
under cifsmanager (when creating a new share)
set options "iocharset=utf8"
have fun streaming video!!!

qwerp_ said:
(require root to work).
i have created cifs module for the new 4.1.1 kernel for nexus 7
3.1.10-g52027f9
use this in conjunction with cifs manager
both
md4.ko and cifs.ko must be loaded to work.
as for the native language support (nls_utf8.ko), its down to yourself.
to use it,
under cifsmanager (when creating a new share)
set options "iocharset=utf8"
have fun streaming video!!!
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I guess if I have to ask I shouldn't do it, but but what does this do?

Cgc2 said:
I guess if I have to ask I shouldn't do it, but but what does this do?
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I may be wrong, but I believe it's to get CifsManager to mount your windows network shares automatically when rebooting your Nexus 7, so you don't have to mount a share manually every time.
Looking forward to trying this out when I get my Nexus 7. Thanks

Cgc2 said:
I guess if I have to ask I shouldn't do it, but but what does this do?
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this allow you to mount windows drive, or even network enabled storage.
so that your video player like dice player or vlc can stream/play the file as its local.
its similar to using //192.168.1.1 on windows.
Salty Wagyu said:
I may be wrong, but I believe it's to get CifsManager to mount your windows network shares automatically when rebooting your Nexus 7, so you don't have to mount a share manually every time.
Looking forward to trying this out when I get my Nexus 7. Thanks
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it doesn't mount automatically, but provide the interface to mount drive easily.

Wow, interesting and thanks for educating me on this use. However, why not use Airdroid and achieve similar results? Still learning, Thx folks.

We only have 6/15 GB to work with. Now, for me I can have 500GB and the apps will even index it for me just as if there were a folder with infinite amount of space on my sdcard
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app

this is basically similar to
External Storage Device Compatibility Review
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766260
where instead of the "mounted" drive comes from your usbOTG cable reading from a external hardisk or card reader,
your mounted drive is a shared drive on your network. NAS drive, windows PC, linux, etc, anything that supports
Common Internet File System (CIFS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block
you will need to know abit of linux/android system to properlly use this,
make sure that your "nexus 7" about page, under kernel version matches "3.1.10-g52027f9", meaning you will have to OTA to 4.1.1 JRO03D to be able to use this.

Mate this is exactly what I came looking for. Awesome.
I use cifs manager on all my android devices because ES file explorer insists on fully caching apks before installing them doubling the time to do things.
Been setting up the missus nexus and it was a bit hard to explain to her how to get to the smb movies/series in ES file explorer to stream stuff.
Installed this, mx player and MovieBrowser HD from market and she now only needs to go into MovieBrowser and she has all her movies/series with lovely artwork and synopsis,and just clicks on anything and it automatically plays in mx player.
Good job sir, I don't need a custom kernel just for cifs.

Forgive me for being naive, is this a CWM flashable zip?
if not, what folder do i need to place these modules?

Demented-Idiot said:
Forgive me for being naive, is this a CWM flashable zip?
if not, what folder do i need to place these modules?
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I created a folder in system/lib/ called modules and gave it permissions rwxr-xr-x
I extracted the 3 files into it and gave them each permissions rw-r--r--
Then install cifs manager from google play.
In cifs manager go to settings.
Click mount point prefix and type /storage/sdcard0/Shares
Tick on "load cifs module"
Tick on "Load via insmod"
Click path to cifs.ko and type /system/lib/modules/cifs.ko:/system/lib/modules/md4.ko:/system/lib/modules/nls_utf8.ko
Go back to main cifs manager page and add new share.
Under share path type "your ip of computer with shares on/sharename of folder on computer" eg. 192.168.0.6/Movies
Click under mount point and it will fill it in for you.
Under username put your username for PC that you log in with
Under password put the password that you log into your computer with.
Under options type ioch****t=utf8 (they have now banned a word that is within this word. It should be i o c h a r s e t without the spaces.)
Click save share.
Now when you click on the share name in cifs manager it should turn the light green to the right of it. If it doesn't you have done something wrong.
Now go to any file manager and go to your sdcard on tablet and there should be a "Shares" folder and inside should be the share you set up.
You can now use that as if it was a local directory. If you restart the tablet you will need to go into cifs manager again and click on the shares you want until they turn green.
HTH

thanks, very detailed response!

Demented-Idiot said:
thanks, very detailed response!
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You're welcome.
Any probs give me a shout. As long as you know how to make a share on PC the last instructions should sort you out.

Whenever I set "iocharset=utf8" in options, I get segmentation fault when trying to mount a share. If I remove that option, then it mounts fine. But filenames in non-English characters (Chinese in my case) will either become garbage or not show at all.
Any one got "iocharset=utf8" to work? I've verified that all three modules are loaded correctly by cifsmanager.

flumpster said:
Under share path type "your ip of computer with shares on/sharename of folder on computer" eg. 192.168.0.6/Movies
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Note for some incomprehensible reason CIFS manager requires a static IP address in the share specification.
(Just as described above) Do not assume hostnames will work here. They will not.
Thanks for the guide. Getting this feature turned up was high on my list.

One word of warning because I know a mate of mine did this by accident.
If you have a share set up on your computer with full read/write access and then wipe your SD card on android (or just delete the shares folder in your file manager) while the share is mounted in cifs manager then it will also delete the folder on your computer.
I don't have this worry because all my shares on computer are set up as read only to stop the kids accidentally deleting stuff.
Just a warning

Thanks for the instructions flumpster, helped a lot.
Might also advise on mounting outside of /sdcard, was seeing a lot of LAN traffic and Nexus 7 activity - turned out a number of apps were creating thumbnails and/or indexing items that was on my NAS drive. Poweramp, Gallery, QuickPic etc.

File Manager HD (Tablet) can play / view any type of file over SMB. Very simple.

Hemidroids said:
File Manager HD (Tablet) can play / view any type of file over SMB. Very simple.
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So can ES file explorer which we already mentioned but that is not what we want.
This makes the folder ( or folders ) appear local so you can add it into any other app directly (mx player, movie browser hd, gallery, play music, etc)
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Salty Wagyu said:
Thanks for the instructions flumpster, helped a lot.
Might also advise on mounting outside of /sdcard, was seeing a lot of LAN traffic and Nexus 7 activity - turned out a number of apps were creating thumbnails and/or indexing items that was on my NAS drive. Poweramp, Gallery, QuickPic etc.
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I have not tested this but have you tried putting a .nomedia file inside the "Shares" folder after it is first created? In theory it should stop them apps doing that.

@ OP
Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for. I don't even have my order yet (was merely hoping for CIFS support), but this is about the only thing that makes this 8GB tablet usable, IMO.
I will provide feedback once I get the tablet in hand and have some time to experiment with CIFS.

Just wondering how these mounts behave as the tablet is moved around in/out of WiFi coverage and between LANs.
Is everything well-behaved? Any gotchas I should be aware of?