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    Accessing network share for media

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        retro486
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        I can't seem to find any existing app that can access a network share (via SMB or mounting FTP or something like that). The Network tab in the File Manager seemed the logical place but it appears empty with no ability to manually add a location... Or am missing something?

        I'm attempting to install VLC via Libertine to see if that does the trick but I wanted to make sure I'm not making this more difficult.

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          advocatux @retro486
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          @retro486 hi, it's not exactly the solution that you're looking for but maybe https://open-store.io/app/wifitransfer.costa or https://open-store.io/app/ftpmanager.costa can help you or give you some ideas 🙂

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            WillemHexspoor
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            It's possible to mount SMB/CIFS shares from the command line.
            First you need to install the cifs-utils package, which requires remounting root to make it writeable. Than the network share can be mounted with:

            mount -t cifs -o sec=ntlmssp,username=user,password=pass,iocharset=utf8,vers=1.0,rw //servershare ~/'directory to mount to'
            
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              Pulsar33
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              Hello,
              I remember when I got my Aquaris BQ E5 Ubuntu Touch Edition that the file browser had a Network shortcut and that it allowed me to easily access my shared local area network including linux and windows machines. This function was lost somewhere between OTA ?? and OTA 15 (I don't know why). Today under OTA 15, the file manager crashes without any message as soon as you try to access the network.
              I don't know what is the status for the last OTA of UBport but IMHO if this simple access function is missing, it is a really bad point for this OS.
              Best regards
              Pulsar33
              PS : I use Wifitransfer and mainly uFtp instead but this is just a workaround

              Aquaris BQ E5 HD UBports OTA-25 (currently testing features)
              Aquaris BQ E5 HD Ubuntu Edition Canonical OTA-15 (last Canonical version, daily use)
              Raspberry Pi 4 B - 4 GB & 8 GB with various OS and Desktops (UBports not OK)

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                retro486
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                Hm. I remounting root rw isn't ideal but that seems to be the only way right now.

                File Manager doesn't crash for me, it just scans and shows nothing. I suppose I'll do some research on that...

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                  malditobastardo
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                  Maybe this could help you: http://kriscode.blogspot.com/2017/12/ssh-and-ubuntu-touch.html

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                    guru @malditobastardo
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                    @malditobastardo said in Accessing network share for media:

                    Maybe this could help you: http://kriscode.blogspot.com/2017/12/ssh-and-ubuntu-touch.html

                    I glanced through the pages. They are based on the idea to make the UT device's partition writable. This might be a typical "hacking around style" of doing things, but is not appropriate for our devices here. Just my $0.02 pesos cubanos.

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