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Cannot Access Win11 Shared Folder on Android (self.techsupport)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by LazerDickMcCheese to c/[email protected]

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The folders are accessible on every other device and SMB is enabled on the host machine. I'm trying to access hundreds of gigabytes of game roms via Retroarch when I'm out of the country so I'd appreciate an easier method if one exists, but I've ran through every troubleshooting guide I can find online, but the share folders still don't exist according to my phone. I've also tried 5 or 6 different file manager apps, but they all say the same thing

If someone sees this in the distant future, I'm still looking for a solution so please reach out.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've personally been used Cx File Explorer to locally access SMB-shared folders from a Win10 device and a OpenMediaVault-based NAS, without problem (neither accessible remotely so cant attest there)

What exactly is not working? Are you getting any usable error messages? If you're not out of the country yet, can you connect locally? Do other SMB shares work?

[–] LazerDickMcCheese 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

So I have all of the devices connected through TailScale (for remote media server access) with a Pihole DNS. All of that works as intended, and my computers can share files between each other, but folders shared across my network aren't visible on my phone for some reason. The file manager that was recommended to me most recently was Material Files, but it isn't detecting my shared folders and plugging in the SMB info myself leads to a vague error.

I'll try CX and report back

"Could not log in to xxx.xxx.x.xxx with user xxxx" but my info is correct, copied and pasted to be sure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe try hostname\username where hostname is the hostname of the server.

[–] LazerDickMcCheese 1 points 8 months ago

Then I get a "SocketTimeoutError"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

My guess would then be probably Tailscale or Pihole somehow interfering with that connection for some reason. Idk if you're able (or willing) to remove those from the equation, but that might help narrow things down. If you have access to another computer locally, maybe sharing a folder on that and gradually adding steps to make it closer to your target system until it stops working?