<![CDATA[File explorer PC files samba acces]]>Hi!

How can i access files on my PC (windows 7) with file explorer app using SMB?
Is it working?

I activated network share on PC, i use wifi via internet box, and when i select network in UT file browser i see workgroup and if i access it i see my box and PC.

But if i try access my pc i get the error in UT file browser :
Handling file error
path or url may not exist or cannot be read: smb://pc_name

I know it worked some time ago with old canonical ut and old file browser, then it stopped working because of a crash bug with last canonical ut file browser when trying network access in it.

But now network in file browser is working again i'd like to use it.

What am i doing wrong?

PS : It also worked on androïd with ES File Explorer.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/topic/4084/file-explorer-pc-files-samba-accesRSS for NodeWed, 13 May 2026 10:19:18 GMTTue, 14 Apr 2020 13:45:58 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Sun, 18 Jul 2021 22:31:49 GMT]]>@marc123454321 Hey just for information. I got same slow browsing behavior with Nautilus in libertine. I can access the server in normal speed with my ubuntu laptop via scp or with windows via samba so I dont know how to fix that. Maybe some day I do not need to access via cli ;-).
Marc

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/53203https://forums.ubports.com/post/53203Sun, 18 Jul 2021 22:31:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Tue, 22 Jun 2021 13:08:12 GMT]]>@applee Hey,
I got direct access to the server yesterday and got the same slow behaviour while browsing wit the file manager when connect as scp mount. I have normal access speed with windows and android. When i download a file I have normal connection speeds too. Its only about browsing. Do you have any idea left :-). I think i will try it with an ubuntu file manager via libertine to check.
Marc

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/52373https://forums.ubports.com/post/52373Tue, 22 Jun 2021 13:08:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:46:49 GMT]]>@marc123454321
Humm I see 🤔 you're right, it's probably related to how the file manager is working.
The file manager does a lot of things and I think it maintains a database to index the files.
That would be an explanation for such latency while it's OK with CLI.

But I don't have a solution.
Maybe using Nexcloud to sync files, but if your use case is about saving space on your mobile then it's not suitable.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/52242https://forums.ubports.com/post/52242Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:46:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:06:27 GMT]]>@applee Hey,
Thanks a lot for your reply. Actually mounting via scp works but theres one problem. When i connect via vpn (using vpnc) and mount my drive, working with the file manager is horrible slow. For me its ok via cli but not for my wife :-). I tought maybe it would be faster to access via samba.
Or maybe its a problem of file manager working with high latency? Maybe its checking only one file (in a queue) per ip package or something like that.
What do you think would be a proper way for me to improve this?
Thanks in advance
Marc

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/52237https://forums.ubports.com/post/52237Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:06:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Fri, 18 Jun 2021 11:51:26 GMT]]>@marc123454321
Honestly I never tried.

SSH could be enabled given that you upload your public key to the phone.
So I'm only using SCP or MTP via USB to access my files.

SAMBA is slow and unreliable from my past experience so I never tried it with Ubuntu Touch.
IIRC there is an app but it's old and maybe broken since then...

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/52234https://forums.ubports.com/post/52234Fri, 18 Jun 2021 11:51:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Fri, 18 Jun 2021 10:23:01 GMT]]>Could anyone help with this problem or am I the only one having troubles using a samba share?
Marc

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/52232https://forums.ubports.com/post/52232Fri, 18 Jun 2021 10:23:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Thu, 20 May 2021 21:56:56 GMT]]>@markatrafik
Hey,
Sorry for the late answer. I still font get smb working on my phone (Oneplus 3).
For mount with -o vers=2.0 im gettin a error 22 --> unknown option.
Do you have any idea how to fix that? Smb access is quiet important for me.

Marc

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/50973https://forums.ubports.com/post/50973Thu, 20 May 2021 21:56:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:35:11 GMT]]>@marc123454321 If you want to mount in this way, it is better, of course, to make a script so that you do not have to type such command every time. Make sure that the username and password are correct. The command may need the root privileges, you can try to use sudo before it, also try adding yet another parameter: vers=2.0

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/50210https://forums.ubports.com/post/50210Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:35:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Thu, 22 Apr 2021 19:46:44 GMT]]>@markatrafik said in File explorer PC files samba acces:

mount //10.20.30.40/archive ~/archive -t cifs -o username=nobody,password=xxxxxx,rw,noexec,nosuid,noacl,iocharset=cp437,uid=32011,gid=32011,noperm,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770

Hey markatrafik,

maybe you can help me I'm allways gettin a mount error(95): Operation not supported when trying to mount an samba file share.
And I cant find my samba via file explorer.

Marc

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/49938https://forums.ubports.com/post/49938Thu, 22 Apr 2021 19:46:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:50:43 GMT]]>@keneda You don't give the impression of a dumb user. On the contrary, an cool hacker, who is correcting runtime code in the RAM directly with hexeditor... at least, that is my impression. 😉

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/49453https://forums.ubports.com/post/49453Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:50:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:43:23 GMT]]>@markatrafik said in File explorer PC files samba acces:

and can be used directly...

What are you talking about? What can be used directly?

An what "is a linux"? My PC is not.

Remember, uTouch is not only for GNU/Linux power command line users... And will not spread like you are talking about on another thread, if it is not a minimum graphical user friendly.

For dumb user like me, wifitransfert is the best actual way to tranfer any file FROM uTouch device TO computer, wireless.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/49449https://forums.ubports.com/post/49449Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:43:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:19:24 GMT]]>@keneda this is a Linux, and can be used directly...

mkdir ~/archive && mount //10.20.30.40/archive ~/archive -t cifs -o username=nobody,password=xxxxxx,rw,noexec,nosuid,noacl,iocharset=cp437,uid=32011,gid=32011,noperm,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770

and use any application... 🙂

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/49446https://forums.ubports.com/post/49446Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:19:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:15:45 GMT]]>@pierpaolo
Remember, this way you can only download files from computer, you can't upload anything on it.
The only way right now to do it in an easy way is to use wifitransfert.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/49394https://forums.ubports.com/post/49394Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:15:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Mon, 12 Apr 2021 22:44:56 GMT]]>@pierpaolo the content of the file places.conf is like this (ignore the line numbers they are from the editor):

1 [General]
2 userRemovedLocations=/home/phablet/.local/share/evolution/calendar/system, /home/phablet/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system
3 userSavedLocations=/home/phablet/.local/share/evolution, smb://sambaservername/sharedirectory

This works on my FP2.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/49390https://forums.ubports.com/post/49390Mon, 12 Apr 2021 22:44:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:53:41 GMT]]>@nogoogle hi to all, I tried your solution but in .config/com.ubuntu.filemanager/ i found only the file .config/com.ubuntu.filemanager/com.ubuntu.filemanager.conf, i created a new file with name places.conf but nothing happened, do you have any idea???

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/49348https://forums.ubports.com/post/49348Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:53:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:20:41 GMT]]>@herr-b
So i tried tonight to save my share directory, and as my usb data plug seems to be dead, i tried again with samba file manager using @nogoogle workaround, and that time i was able to connect to my PC shared folders (i think last time i made a mistake with path name... :grinning_face_with_sweat: ).

But like you i can just read files/folders on PC, not write, and i get exactly the same error as your screenshot...

So i used wifitransfert.

That would be so conviniant to have samba working both ways again :grinning_face_with_big_eyes:

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/48689https://forums.ubports.com/post/48689Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:20:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:52:38 GMT]]>@herr-b said in File explorer PC files smb acces:

Can you transfer files from phone to your smb share?

No i can't anymore between my uTouch phone and my windows 7 PC, that's why i created this topic in the first place.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/35377https://forums.ubports.com/post/35377Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:52:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Sat, 20 Jun 2020 14:59:16 GMT]]>Do you can transfer files from phone to your smb share? I get an error message "Could not create the directory: OK". The other direction is working, I can copy files from my smb share to UT/my phone.
screenshot20200620_165406480.png

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/35374https://forums.ubports.com/post/35374Sat, 20 Jun 2020 14:59:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:49:32 GMT]]>I tested with flyme 4.2.8.4A MX4 file explorer i have, and it worked.
It asked me for Nick and Password from my computer account, and then i was able to explore files.

So it's not windows side problem.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/31743https://forums.ubports.com/post/31743Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:49:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:04:25 GMT]]>@nogoogle
Thanks. Sadly i have exactly same error as with using Network "folder".
Maybe something on windows side.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/31284https://forums.ubports.com/post/31284Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:04:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:34:17 GMT]]>Go to your home directory and open the file manager places configuration file:
.config/com.ubuntu.filemanager/places.conf
in a text editor. You will find a line starting with

userSavedLocations=/otherplace/otherdirectory

add your URL for the smb-server at the end after a comma. The line should now look something like

userSavedLocations=/otherplace/otherdirectory, smb://pc_name/smb_target_share

Save it and restart file manager. "smb_target_share" should now appear under "places" in your file manager. Tap on it and it should connect (at least did it in my case).

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/31279https://forums.ubports.com/post/31279Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:34:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:57:31 GMT]]>@nogoogle said in File explorer PC files smb acces:

Try adding the URL manually as item

How and where? URL is smb:// ?

EDIT : i tried add smb://pc_name as new file and new folder in file manager, didn't work, same with trying access this in browser.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/31276https://forums.ubports.com/post/31276Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:57:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to File explorer PC files samba acces on Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:00:00 GMT]]>@Keneda I have no problem accessing smb shares via wifi on my FP2 (OTA11). What does not work is adding them through clicking on "network" and "workgroup" in the file manager. Try adding the URL manually as item, the share will appear with a symbol for a file not folder. At least worked in my case. You can then add it to "places". Loading large folders is quite slow and can take a while (e.g. large music library).

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/31270https://forums.ubports.com/post/31270Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:00:00 GMT