[Motorola Droid Bionic] Bluebird01:
Hi everyone,

I appreciate any help you can give "the newbie" here.

I swear I'm not a total moron, but I can't get this to work. I've tried searching the forums and google, and I've found posts with similar problems, but no solutions. Until I can get another computer to test this on, I don't know if the problem is with my Droid Bionic (unrooted, running JB stock 4.1.2), or my computer (Mac OSX 10.8.3) or my modem.

I would LOVE to root my phone, but I can't even get the darned thing to connect to my computer through the file app!

The phone is on the same wifi network as my computer. Both have no trouble accessing the internet. Both can ping each other (packets sent and received fine). But I can't connect one to the other.

I turn on file sharing on my computer with SMB only

select a folder on my computer to share

Assign a user and password permission to access that folder

make sure permissions for that folder are set to read and write

then go to my phone, open the stock file app

Select "Remote Storages" and "add storage"

Then I enter the IP address for the computer

WORKGROUP for the domain name

The name of the shared folder

The user name and password

then I try to connect.

And I get an alert box on the phone that says

"Network Error

There is a problem in your network connection with remote host. Please repair your network connection and try again."

I'm doing everything that's obvious to do, so I'm guessing there's something "not obvious" that I'm missing. - Anyone here had a similar problem and solved it?

Some things I've tried:

Moving the shared folder to different directories including root, desktop, and "public folder" (each time I moved it, I removed it from the shared list and re-added it)

Creating a guest account and allowing it access to the shared folder - no password needed

Creating a 2nd admin account and allowing it access to shared folders (password)

Turning off computer's firewall

Seeing if I could connect through the computer and phone's browsers (no go!)

Lots of turning things on and off (sharing, users, permissions, wireless...etc.)

Gone into recovery mode on the phone and done a factory reset and wiped the cache partition.

When I check my modem's admin page, I can see both the computer and phone listed there as connected devices. The modem sees them both, and they can ping each other. Why the heck can't I connect them to each other?

Oh, and though I don't think this is relevant, when I connect via cable in USB Storage mode, I can see the internal and external cards on my Mac just fine. They both mount as drives and I can drag stuff back and forth. - Wish I could find instructions to root THAT way!

I finally get the nerve to try to root this and get it on TMobile, and I can't get past the part that should be a no-brainer! :rolleyes:

Any help would be appreciated.

BB01

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Editing on 1/8/14 to add that the problem may be related to a Samba issue in OSX Mountain Lion. I'm also wondering if it could be an issue with my modem, which is several years old. I'm going away for about a week so I may try this on a friend's computer. I'll report back WHEN I am successful with this (because I will be!)