I would like to mount some network storage on my device. I tried using file expert but it doesn't seem to be able to mount specific shares -- in mother words, my NAS doesn't advertise shares so you have to hit them directly (I.e. \\server\share). What app can I use to do this? Can I just open a console and do a mount -t cifs?
andsmb works great. i use it on the xoom to download music and ebooks from my nas.
https://market.android.com/details?id=lysesoft.andsmb&feature=search_result
Perfect thanks.
gregnice631 said:
andsmb works great. i use it on the xoom to download music and ebooks from my nas.
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seems very slow, maxed out at about 112kb/s for me. anybody know of anything faster?
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It would be great it I could set my phone on my VPN, which is possible now. But have that path accessed by the default music player as well as the storage card.
I know the pictures inside the MP3 would need to be sync or blocked but a 3G connection can handle 320kbps streaming no problem which is close the highest bitrate for mp3's with out breaking compatibility.
This would rock
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look at the orb client.. that is what it does.. you can have a home server with orb and share your music and videos, photos etc. over the net even through a vpn with orb client..
i havent tried any clients on my n1 however..
woudl still want this feature made but in the meantime thats for the idea.
Never tried Orb
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Orb isn't for me and it has tons of complaints and not looking to use 3rd party software on pc but thanks for the information.
i use orb for some things but yeah from what ive read the android client sucks
look at subsonic, its very quick and easy to set up, but you said no pc software....hmm, good luck and post something if you find it.
I'm looking at doing exactly this when I get my replacement Nexus One. Mine is getting swapped for a warranty replacement right now.
I'm 99% positive this will work too. It will go something like this:
1. Establish a VPN connection to my NAS box that houses my music collection
2. Mount the smb share using CIFS (requires a rooted device with modded kernel containing the cifs module, such as Enomther The Official), info on doing this can be found here: android.doshaska.net/cifs
3. Load up my favorite music app and steam all my tunes over 3G!
UPDATE: This works, sort of...
Alright, so I have my NAS box (Netgear Stora) mounted to my Nexus One file system using cifs. I'm running Enomther's TheOfficial froyo rom, which comes with the cifs module. Here are the commands I used to get it mounted:
prerequisites:
1. WIFI Connection to same lan that the NAS box is connected to (presumably this will work over VPN also, need to test) EDIT: Confirmed this works over VPN also.
2. Rom with CIFS module compiled for the kernel (I used Enomther's TheOfficial Nexus1 Froyo)
commands I used to mount:
can be done from terminal emulator app or ADB Shell.
obviously change the IP address, mount locations, username, and password to your needs.
1. insmod /system/lib/modules/2.6.32.16-TheOfficial/cifs.ko
2. chmod 0777 /data
3. mkdir /data/mounted
4. busybox mount -t cifs //192.168.1.141/MyLibrary /data/mounted -o username=user,password=pass
5. cd /
6. cd data
7. cd mounted
8. chmod 0777 *
After this, you will be about to browse the mounted files and folders under the /data/mounted location either from the terminal emulator, ADB Shell, or a file explorer app on the android phone.
HOWEVER, here is my current issue. Hopefully someone can help me out here.
I can browse my files and see MP3's from the terminal or file explorer apps, I can even click on an MP3 and load it up into my music apps and play it, I use Meridian Media Player. However, if I go into Meridian and browse folders from that app, can I go into my mounted shares and music folders, and I can see all files in there EXCEPT mp3's. They just don't show up through any media app I've tried. However, like I said, I can see them just fine from a file explorer app such as EStrongs or from the terminal. Anyone have any idea why?
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Hi, One reason i like using Windows Mobile phones is that it can access my folders shared on my network, and as such, I can access pictures and my video files or divx videos to play remotely.
Is there a way on my streak to do the same thing? Now that I have my dock. I would love a way to access my movies and so and play them remotely. Anyone have a idea on how android devices could do this? Thanks.
try this
http://androidforums.com/android-media/83497-streaming-video-over-home-
network.html
Mysticales said:
Hi, One reason i like using Windows Mobile phones is that it can access my folders shared on my network, and as such, I can access pictures and my video files or divx videos to play remotely.
Is there a way on my streak to do the same thing? Now that I have my dock. I would love a way to access my movies and so and play them remotely. Anyone have a idea on how android devices could do this? Thanks.
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try VLC stream and Convert Pro
thatruth132 said:
try this
http://androidforums.com/android-media/83497-streaming-video-over-home-
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Thanks. The app in question to use now is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=756158 The CIFS Manager. This should hopefully do the trick. =D Cause who wants to pay for a "server app" on your PC.. when youd think it can just read it Natively. Thats why I have a windows ppc. Tho the app I got there works.. but it sucks cause none of the menu UI comes up right... tho still managed it.
lou0611 I dont wanna stream from a server or convert the files, I could do that but I rather just open my network folders, pick my file and play
Is there an app that would let me stream media files and DVD folder structures from a Network Attached Storage device on my LAN?
CIFS Manager.
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CIFS Manager.
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This looks like something that should work but for the life of it I can't get it configured to work :-(
Es file explorer or upnp play. Both works fine for me except 720p if ur running GB and up
To keep my life simple I used Clemsyns kernel and CIFS Manager worked with no issues. I have tried out some 720p files and they have worked well with Moboplayer. With Pershoots Kernel I had to manually add the cifs.ko which did work in the end but took some work. I pulled the basic instructions from his page.
To use one of the kernel modules:
Pull the one you want from lib-2632.39.tar.gz (winrar can open this),
adb remount
adb push MODULE.ko /system/lib/modules/2.6.32.39-cyanogenmod/
adb shell chmod 644 /system/lib/modules/2.6.32.39-cyanogenmod/MODULE.ko
adb shell insmod /system/lib/modules/2.6.32.39-cyanogenmod/MODULE.ko
By far this is the best feature for me for the gtab.
Skifta was really easy to set up and use... works well on my gTab and Nexus One.
Allows streaming from pc, phone or tablet on pc, phone or tablet.
www.skifta.com/
Emit or Plex should work wonderfully for you. Both encode video on the fly. I have used Plex since it was released for Android and really like how it flows.
I have just ordered my RaspberryPi, and I plan on using it for below.
1. Connect my powered 2TB external HDD to it and make a NAS
2. Use it as a torrent client
3. Play movies on the HDD using XBMC
4. Run lightppd to share my files on the internet.
Coming to my questions
1. Would it be possible to install the distro on a separate partition one the HDD? I plan to format the HDD using ext4.
2. Will the little machine be able to handle the load of all 4 tasks?
3. Should I use NFS over SMB? I plan to access the files of the share on Linux, Windows and Android.
Please let me know your thoughts on this.
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suku_patel_22 said:
I have just ordered my RaspberryPi, and I plan on using it for below.
1. Connect my powered 2TB external HDD to it and make a NAS
2. Use it as a torrent client
3. Play movies on the HDD using XBMC
4. Run lightppd to share my files on the internet.
Coming to my questions
1. Would it be possible to install the distro on a separate partition one the HDD? I plan to format the HDD using ext4.
2. Will the little machine be able to handle the load of all 4 tasks?
3. Should I use NFS over SMB? I plan to access the files of the share on Linux, Windows and Android.
Please let me know your thoughts on this.
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1: I would use a bootloader like BerryBoot to install the distro on the hard drive, I think its possible, Ive only installed on a flash drive and SD Card, but I dont see why it wouldnt work.
2. It might be able to handle it but cant say for sure. On mine I am using XBMC and streaming movies from my desktop and I am using nearly 400mb of RAM but I think the CPU load is okay.
3. Not sure on this one, I use SMB but my laptop is broken so I dont have linux running on any of my machines, but Windows and Android works just fine, and I actually use my Nexus 7 as a remote for XBMC.
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1: I would use a bootloader like BerryBoot to install the distro on the hard drive, I think its possible, Ive only installed on a flash drive and SD Card, but I dont see why it wouldnt work.
2. It might be able to handle it but cant say for sure. On mine I am using XBMC and streaming movies from my desktop and I am using nearly 400mb of RAM but I think the CPU load is okay.
3. Not sure on this one, I use SMB but my laptop is broken so I dont have linux running on any of my machines, but Windows and Android works just fine, and I actually use my Nexus 7 as a remote for XBMC.
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SMB is compatible with linux and Windows natively, however if you intend to stream HD video at all NFS would be better. My NAS uses both, NFS to stream to my pi running xbmc, and samba for windows machines/android devices. I also running a upnp server for remote streaming to my phone.
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Samba has slow speeds on the pi typically 7-8Mbps compared to the usual 25-40 i get from my drive.
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Samba has slow speeds on the pi typically 7-8Mbps compared to the usual 25-40 i get from my drive.
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I found samba had lag on HD vids. I still use samba on my windows and android devices, buti never stream HD to them
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The Pi's 'ROM/BIOS' boot code attempts to bootstrap from the SD. If there is nothing where it expects it to be it won't start.
You would need some code to transfer startup to the external hard disk.
AFAIK, the raspberry pi can boot partitions from an external USB drive, what it actually boots is the GPU executable which loads a kernel, then it can bootstrap an USB HDD.
For the SMB or NFS matter, NFS usually provides higher throughput than SMB, and Windows can mount NFS based hosts, I'd go for that if you plan to see some performance.
As said, NFS have smaller overhead than SMB. So use that if you can.
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i have a Samba server and i can Stream Full HD whit no problems (maybe a littel slow in the Begining nothing more) 1TB 2.0USB HDD NTFS
So overall NFS is better than Samba?
Yes, but samba is easier to setup across platforms
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I have just a 256 MB model, and I'll use it for torrent+file share+XBMC. Which client for torrenting will you use otherwise? (transmission-daemon or rTorrent?)
Not sure, whichever gives me ability to push torrents from my pc.
My pi arrives next week.
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You should give transmission-daemon and transmission gui (transgui) a try. You can push files via the Internet if you have your port forwarding set up correctly.
I have a slightly different setup that has Apache providing ssl for transmission-daemon
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You can also set it up with transdroid on Android. I believe transdroid also works with r Torrent.
NFS is faster than SMB. If you are reasonably Linux-savvy, you should have no issues setting it up. I serve NFS to my Win 7 torrent box from OpenIndiana. Setting up Win7 as an NFS client is a bit more complicated.
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I found samba had lag on HD vids. I still use samba on my windows and android devices, buti never stream HD to them
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I hope you're talking about megabits per second. You can get 7~8 Megabytes per second with SAMBA and you can get the full 12 megabytes (100megabits) per second with NFS, but never more than that.
In most cases, samba is enough, but I've seen two or three videos with imense video and sound quality that SAMBA simply can't keep up. NFS saves the day. The 100 megabit ethernet can be a real bottleneck though.
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NFS is faster than SMB. If you are reasonably Linux-savvy, you should have no issues setting it up. I serve NFS to my Win 7 torrent box from OpenIndiana. Setting up Win7 as an NFS client is a bit more complicated.
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Setting up the NFS is really quite a bit of trouble for a first-timer. Windows doesn't play well you don't have the no_root_squash option on the server. After that though, all l you need is a bat script with "mount <NFS_SERVER_IP>://<SHARE>/<FOLDER> <DRIVE>:". Don't forget to enable NFS client first.
Either that or use nekodrive and dokan.
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i have a Samba server and i can Stream Full HD whit no problems (maybe a littel slow in the Begining nothing more) 1TB 2.0USB HDD NTFS
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yeah same here samba runs very smooth for my 3D/1080p movie streams.
I recommend changing up the settings(disable firewall etc) increase buffer size and overclock.
i prefer nfs for hd movies, there is also a windows nfs client :laugh:
As I read I must give a try for NFS.
There were bechmarktests done by a user in the OpenELEC forum.
As you can see the difference isn't that great:
FTP was faster than SMB by 1.57%
NFS was faster than FTP by 5.65%
And finally NFS was faster than SMB by 7.22%
How to mount smb share with Nexus 6 on android 5.1.1 ?
to be able to stream from different applications
I do it with ES File Explorer.
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I do it with ES File Explorer.
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They won't work for what he wants. That would only be available in ES, not for example, power amp.
However, he could launch media files from the explorer itself.but its a bit of a pain
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How to mount smb share with Nexus 6 on android 5.1.1 ?
to be able to stream from different applications
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You would be best mounting using CIFS but I think you'll need a custom kernel to support it
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They won't work for what he wants. That would only be available in ES, not for example, power amp.
However, he could launch media files from the explorer itself.but its a bit of a pain
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That's what I do. You do need an explorer anyway to search for the files. Look up the file, tap it, select the app that will open it. I don't see how that's a pain, it's the same as in any other computer, basically. Alternatively, the player app itself has to support it, like Dice Player but I don't use that as much cause the sorting options suck.
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That's what I do. You do need an explorer anyway to search for the files. Look up the file, tap it, select the app that will open it. I don't see how that's a pain, it's the same as in any other computer, basically. Alternatively, the player app itself has to support it, like Dice Player but I don't use that as much cause the sorting options suck.
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Well, if you use poweramp for example, you can mount your NAS as a CIFS share to a local folder on your SDCard, then you can use the app's built in media library / browser to play the music, which is much easier for those who use that sort of thing. Its certainly fewer steps, however, it has it's own downfalls too.