Hi everyone, I've been trying to fiddle with my CIFs network hard drive shares to see if there was any way to virtually mount them so that the Gallery sees them as though they were on my SDCard locally. I know that with kitkat it is required that you use a kernel that supports CIFs and as of Dec 6th, AEL (I use the TMo variant of the Note 4) supposedly supports CIF's network shares.
I have been able to successfully mount them using CIFS manager in the play store but when going to browse within any file explorer the folders show up but they are empty. Does anyone have any other ideas? I would love to be able to use the VR Gallery to browse 3D files stored on my PC as I have a rather extensive selection and having to copy back and forth on to the micro SD is a slow and tedious process. Hopefully this feature is added in the future but for the time being I'd love to get some ideas on whether or not we could possible get files to stream over wifi from a file server.
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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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Hello,
a question: is it possible to manual add a smb share in the gallery?
If i use a program like ES file explorer i can see and acces my smb shares, but if i open gallery i don't see the smb share (nor can i add a smb share). It would be nice if this could be done somehow because another programm photoframe looks to the gallery to see what pictures are stored in the gallery. It would be great to use to phone as a digital slideshow when it's charging
My phone is rooted (i don't know if this can help to find a anser to my question). If anyone has an idea than that would be great.
I will take a guess:
1) The gallery application is updated with content every time you restart your phone or re-insert your SD card. Only at this point does it populate the gallery with content.
2) The smb share you see with the explorer app is not mounted onto your phone at all so even if you triggered a rescan of the sd card it would still miss the smb share unless the application provided some kind of a driver for the smb share.
3) A thought would be to try and make a directory on your SD card, mount the smb share to it and find a way to trigger the sd card scan ad hope that it picks it up.
https://youtu.be/XupKswS9Qz4
This is from my g3 with lollipop 5.1.1
I know we have OTG but you have to use Stickmount or a kernal for it show or get to it and not only that the system still doesn't show that it is mounted.
I was wondering if this is can be implement to our nexus 6 roms? Since we don't have a SD slot, I Would assume it would be a lot easier for apps to see it instead of use of Secondary App .
I believe you can use otg usb with es file Explorer... Without root or a custom kernel
https://youtu.be/4pe_F7FHm5g
Of course it *can* be implemented.
I use OTG with my stock rooted N6 just fine. ES file explorer lists it as an option under local. Other programs happily launch the file from there. For example if there is a movie I want to watch without bothering to move to the N6 it gives the option of launching it on my MX player. I can't think of a scenario it is not allowing me to do. It sounds like you want it to mount directly within the filesystem. True that might be nice but for my use not all that necessary.
It can be. I expect slimLP will have it when its fully featured, like they always have. Small change in fstab (RAMdisk) and an OS change to show it in the storage menu.
That s really sound promising I hope so I dont mind the work around just trying to have the most stable way possible
Hi.
I got the Lollipop update for my Z3 Compact (T-mobile), and now I see i can add an external share to my phone. Does this mean I can add my Nas (a special share for my phone) to offload images and videos to? If so, how do I add the share? Can't find any info on this subject. Anyone added an external share? Thanks in advance.
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Yes, it can connect to SMB (Windows) shares. The KitKat builds had this capability as well. On my Lollipop phone my home computer share is still visible in the storage control from when I connected to it with KitKat.
Personally, I prefer to use the tabs in Root Explorer to browse my PC file system.
So if I understand correctly, I can connect to my nas to offload pictures and videos? I really wanna avoid opening the lid each time my phone is full of videos. Dropbox isn't a really viable option either. So now I only have to figure out how to connect the two... Any tutorials?
I've been wanting to mount a CIFS/SMB share so that I can use apps that can't normally access a network folder. File explorers can allow one particular file to be opened, but I can't do something simple like shuffle a playlist for a music player or navigate to a particular book using an app's library management features. I saw that CIFSManager was an option, but I don't know if the Droid Turbo has any kernels that support it. Is there a custom kernel that supports it, or is there a way to add that functionality to an already existing kernel?