[ale] finding Samba share on Linux

Jim Philips briarpatch.jim at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 20:34:15 EST 2011


I can enter that in as a location on Nautilus, and it seems to log in to the
share. But Nautilus doesn't then show me the files. It just shows my home
directory on my computer.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Sparr <sparr0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> If "\\ANDROID" works in Windows then "smb://ANDROID" should work in
> most linux file browsers. If not, then there's something funky going
> on behind the scenes with that app.
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > There is an app for Samba filesharing now on Android. But the
> instructions
> > for it are for Windows. You can just enter \\ANDROID in the run bar in
> > Windows and it will start connecting wirelessly. Any idea how I would get
> > Linux to connect? I poked around in Ubuntu but didn't see any obvious way
> to
> > get it to connect.
> > Nice app, by the way. Lets you manage files on the SD card without
> > connecting any cables.
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