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[Q] mounting a windows shared folder to android fs

i looked at these forums and solutions for doing this and none of them worked for me so i'm posting this in case someone knows how to solve this:
I am using nexus 7 2013 with cyanogenmod 10.2.1. i tried both "cifsmanager" and "mount manager" applications to mount my shares (with the right credentials). i also used the following command:
busybox mount -t cifs -o username=[user],password=[password] //192.168.1.91/T /mnt/sdcard/users
all these produce the same error - "mount: invalid argument" when trying to connect to the shared folder.

Have you seen if smbfs rather than cifs works? ( I know smbfs is "old"). There is some relevant info here http://www.netzgewitter.com/2013/10/troubleshoot-cifs-on-android/ on the problems with cifs and Sony Xperia

peterk-1 said:
Have you seen if smbfs rather than cifs works? ( I know smbfs is "old"). There is some relevant info here http://www.netzgewitter.com/2013/10/troubleshoot-cifs-on-android/ on the problems with cifs and Sony Xperia
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Thanks man!!!!! the "-o unc=" thing soved the issue!

liran corleone said:
Thanks man!!!!! the "-o unc=" thing soved the issue!
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I guess i was happy too soon - the mount now does work, but i cannot access it with other users. this is how i did the mount:
mount -o unc=\\\\192.168.1.91\\d$,username=developer,password=pass -t cifs none /mnt/cifs/arcade/d
this is the "mount" command output afterwards:
none /mnt/cifs/arcade/d cifs rw,relatime,sec=ntlm,unc=\\192.168.1.91\d$,username=developer,uid=0,noforceuid,gid=0,noforcegid,addr=192.168.1.91,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755,nounix,serverino,rsize=61440,wsize=65536,actimeo=1 0 0
Any idea why/how to solve this?

I've had good luck using the cifs module in the ElementalX kernel along with cifsmanager. You don't need to configure anything other than your shares, and maybe set mount point prefix to /mnt/cifs
If you want to mount shares remotely through ssh port forwarding you can specify the port number that you are forwarding to using port= in options. I'm getting ready for work, so I don't have time right now to get the output showing the mount command that it generates, but I can when I get home.

spiked_mistborn said:
I've had good luck using the cifs module in the ElementalX kernel along with cifsmanager. You don't need to configure anything other than your shares, and maybe set mount point prefix to /mnt/cifs
If you want to mount shares remotely through ssh port forwarding you can specify the port number that you are forwarding to using port= in options. I'm getting ready for work, so I don't have time right now to get the output showing the mount command that it generates, but I can when I get home.
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i cannot use this kernel since i am using cyanogenmod 10.2.1 (i need the wireless ad-hoc connection mode support) so i will need another solution for this...

Well, I checked in /system/lib/modules to see if cifs.ko was there, but it's not. I was thinking maybe extracting the cifs modules from the ElementalX kernel might be possible, but it must be part of the kernel source and not a separate file. Seems like more people would find cifs support useful, so maybe somebody with development skills will make a kernel module file that's compatible with the N7 2013.
Here's what shows up when I run mount:
//192.168.0.100/Music /mnt/cifs/Music cifs rw,relatime,sec=ntlm,unc=\\192.168.0.100\Music,username=username,uid=0,noforceuid,gid=0,noforcegid,addr=192.168.0.100,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755,nounix,serverino,rsize=16384,wsize=131007,actimeo=1 0 0

Nevermind.

mdamaged said:
Nevermind.
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cifs seems to be supported well by cyanogenmod - the mount process is working fine, but the mounted folders are only visible with root priviledges - not to device's applications like poweramp, pdf reader etc.

liran corleone said:
cifs seems to be supported well by cyanogenmod - the mount process is working fine, but the mounted folders are only visible with root priviledges - not to device's applications like poweramp, pdf reader etc.
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It's private namespaces that's the issue.

CIFS or NFS support?

I would like to connect my OUYA to either NFS or CIFS shares. It doesnt seem to handle this nativiely. I have tried busybox and it is no avail for nfs shares (preferred) and cifs manager i keep getting an invalid device.
Any howtos on how to do this? This would make my rom life a heck of a lot better

phin586 said:
I would like to connect my OUYA to either NFS or CIFS shares. It doesnt seem to handle this nativiely. I have tried busybox and it is no avail for nfs shares (preferred) and cifs manager i keep getting an invalid device.
Any howtos on how to do this? This would make my rom life a heck of a lot better
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Hi friend. My english is not too good but i'll try to explain what i did.
At default ouya's kernel i was not able to use nfs version 3 or 4, only nfs version 2. the cifs didn't work
i compiled the ouya's kernel and enable the cifs and nfs on it because i use ouya as a media center running XBMC.
so i build a bzimage kernel and flash it to ouya using flashboot. i needed to unzip the newest ouya firmware and pick the ramdisk file to flash too.
if you only flash the bzimage you ouya will not work. so i flash the bzimage and the ramdisk files with the same command.
after flash i reboot my ouya and it works like a charm!
i was able to mount my nfs shares using nfs v3. not using xmbc but using the adb with shell...

[Q] Mounting network folder as a local directory

Hello all.
I'm running my FireTV as an entertainment system. It's rooted with Kodi, Mobdro, RetroArch, ePSXe w/ Sixaxis PS3 as controller etc.
Since the FTV only has 8GB of local storage, I was wondering if there's a way to mount a samba share into a local directory so I can load emulator games without transferring them. Majority of the emulators only scan ROMs / ISOs etc on local directories.
Unfortunately, apps like cifsmanager and mount manager are broken since android 4.3 I think.
Thanks in advance.

Maybe this might be helpful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/general/run-script-firetv-boot-t2986158

This works for me:
Code:
busybox mount -t cifs //my.ip.address/my.share /sdcard/somedir -o username=guest

jocala said:
This works for me:
Code:
busybox mount -t cifs //my.ip.address/my.share /sdcard/somedir -o username=guest
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Hello there.
Thanks for the help. But do you mind answering a couple of Qs because I'm a filthy nub when it comes to this.
1. Where do I run this command? Do I connect to my FTV using adb and just type this in?
2. How would this work if my Samba share has spaces on it?
3. Do I run this everytime I reboot my FTV?
Thanks again

Squalll13 said:
Hello there.
Thanks for the help. But do you mind answering a couple of Qs because I'm a filthy nub when it comes to this.
1. Where do I run this command? Do I connect to my FTV using adb and just type this in?
2. How would this work if my Samba share has spaces on it?
3. Do I run this everytime I reboot my FTV?
Thanks again
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1. As posted, it would be run from the command line, from a root prompt. I use busybox, so you need that as well for my method.
2. I stay away from directories with spaces, but it may work with quotes, idk, haven't tested. It works with embedded spaces if they are inclosed in quotes: e.g:
Code:
busybox mount -t cifs "//192.168.1.200/media/my folder" /sdcard/cifs -o username=guest
3. Easiest thing to do would be to put it into a script that runs at boot. That's the approach I'm taking with my program adbFire. I'm testing this functionality now.

oops.... guess that was already answered. Anyhow, can't leave text field blank so; Yeah this works great. I got mine all set up with Advanced Launcher kodi addon. Tested with a few emulators and ISOs load near instantly

Thanks for the replies. Though I noticed something peculiar and I would like some insight.
I noticed that after I haven't used the FireTV for a while. Maybe 24 hours. The mounted folder kinda "disappears" for a bit but come back. For example, I use ES File Explorer and go to /mnt/obb/ and it will just keep "Loading" until I just press back. Same thing when I used adb shell, cd to /mnt/obb/ and use ls. It just stays there until I force exit. But after a waiting around a bit like 10 mins or so, the mounted folder shows up no problem.
It kinda feels like you need to ping /access it or something, fail, wait a bit then it shows up.
I hope what I said isn't too confusing. If it was I apologize.

Help with mounting windows shared drive for use by any app

Hi,
The goal is make my shared windows folder available on FireTV to be accessed by media applications. First attempt is for music
This is AFTV 1. It is rooted and has busybox. It has TWRP and 5.2.1.0_r1 pre-rooted stock image. I searched around and found couple of useful threads.
Run script on FireTV boot
mount cifs share from nas
Based on the first thread, I have created my script that I plan to run in /system/etc/install-recovery.sh
My current problem is that the script can be only run after I su (become root)
The script runs successfully, but the files are only available on adb shell or putty when I am root. They are not available to regular user or any apps.
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
sleep 15
mkdir /mnt/obb/music
chmod 777 /mnt/obb/music
sleep 20
busybox mount -o noperm,unc=\\\\192.168.1.56\\music,username=xx,password=xx -t cifs none /mnt/obb/music
Second problem is that when I restart firetv, this does not seem to have done anything. But I have the fix the first problem first. I need any of the apps to be able to access the mounted shared drive.
Thanks
ETA: post #10 in thread [Q] mounting a windows shared folder to android fs seems to be the same problem, but I did not understand the suggested solution

Question trying to load cifs.ko to my device

I'd like to mount a SMB share on my device so that I can access ROMs on my network share through retroarch.
I've rooted my device, I have Magisk installed, and I was using ADB to try and push the module to places on my device (and having trouble). But I've been barking up the wrong tree since the cifs.ko I have isn't for this kernel. Probably why insmod failed.
This is turning out a lot more complicated than I'd anticipted. I can hook up the share and access via a file browser no problems. I'd anticipated setting up a symlink to an accessible directory, but I read that there was something in the way that android mounts the share that would prevent that from working.
Does anyone have any advice on where to look next? There's no Magisk module I can see that would help me. I'm at a dead end.