[Android Apps and Games] Dan_Aykroyd:
Samba on Windows... ALMOST Working!

Hi there,

I just bought the Ultimate edition and went on to trying to connect the Samba server to my Windows 8.1 x64 machine.

I followed the help file on the subject and it still wouldn't work. After a lot of testing, enabling the IP Tables setting made it possible to forward the ports and have the Samba server accesible from Windows.

So, now I can access it from Windows, it shows (and let me browse) the file structure, but when trying to copying a file from the device to my PC or vice versa, it gives the following error every time:

Any ideas what this was about? I'm pissed off because I was so close to make it work and it fails there! Hopefully it would be possible to solve.

On a side note, another weird behavior is that if I try the SMB server from within the very same Android device (using Solid Explorer), it works ONLY if I don't have any user defined in the SMB settings. If I do, it keeps asking over and over for the credentials; always saying that they are invalid. Any ideas on why this happens? Of course, if I remove the user, it works.

Thanks

PS: By the way, other apps like Samba Filesharing for Android work right out of the box, without tinkering with any settings (not even on the Windows side). And it's free. Wouldn't be possible to make your Samba server to work like that? :confused:

EDIT 1: when double clicking a file directly from the Samba share, I also get the following error:

I've been trying since yesterday, non-stop, to make it work. Googling info on disabling Samba v3 and v2 on the client side (PC), changing different registry values, combining every step in your help file with all those things I've found, with/without users on the server, selecting different locations on the Android side to share (emulated, legacy, sd_card, etc), changing file permissions to the whole directory, etc. and nothing works!

Please help... there must be a way to make it work. I'm astonished that the other app I mentioned (Samba Filesharing for Android) works so well without touching anything! This one certainly can too. Please, I'm looking forward to hear from you.

Thanks again

EDIT 2: more info to add...

When I try to create a folder on the device, it gives the above error but it actually creates the folder (I've checked on the device itself using a file explorer). The same happen with any file; it gives the error but creates a 0 KB file (like a placeholder) with no data on it.

Furthermore, I can actually delete any folder (created on the device or not) from Windows, providing it's empty without anything inside. It doesn't give any errors, but if I try to delete a file it gives the same error and doesn't to anything.

Well... hope this helps to troubleshoot. Please let me know!

Thanks

EDIT 3: I've read about the issue with the KB2536276 and Samba. When I followed your help file, I couldn't uninstall it because it wasn't present in Windows 8.

The thing is, that as this company says,

I might not be able to uninstall it, because it's built in.

In any case, one thing comes up to my mind... Why with the other Samba for Android server it works without having to go through all this mess? Is it because you are using an older SMB Server version than that app? Would it be to crazy to ask if it could be updated? :confused:

Hope I get some answers about this... Thanks