[Mokaa]

Hey guys,

First of all, I just want to mention that I'm not perfectly bilingual so feel free to ask if you don't understand.

So, I know there's PLENTY of threads about Smb and windows 10 but I haven't found anything helping me. What I want to do is, share my external hard drives plugged on my android box to my Windows 10 so I can add files from Windows without having to unplug/plug my hd's everytime.

My first question is : Is it even possible ? Whatever I type on google, it's always about sharing an external hard drive plugged on windows to Android, wich is not what I'm looking for. And the Kodi wiki about SMB/Windows is not helping me at all since it's, once again, about sharing Windows to Kodi.

I've tried installing AndSMB, ES File explorer and I couldn't find anything helpful. AndSMB is, from what I've noticed, a client and I couldn't figure out how to share my drives from ES File explorer. Should I just make a ftp server on my PC and that's it ? Or am I right to believe that smb is the solution ?

TL;DR : Is it possible to share my external hard drives plugged on my android box to Windows 10 ?

Thank you in advance.

Specs :
- Android box : MXQ Pro, Android 5.1.1, Kodi v17.3
- Windows 10 home

PS1 : I used the search option and didn't find anything helpful. If you have found a thread answering my question, well then I'm sorry, I probably didn't see it.
PS2 : I know, using a PC instead would be 100 times effortless but I do have a cheap netbook with only two USB2 ports and I dont want my netbook to be open 24/7

[Prof Yaffle]

Not strictly Kodi-related, as it's an OS question, so I'll move this to off-topic. However...

You're looking for, as you suspect, an SMB (or NFS) *server* for Android, not a client. I haven't tried doing this, so I don't know how easy it is, but I can imagine that you're likely to hit some challenges around (a) whether or not you need the device to be rooted (to be able to start a daemon and/or access the whole filesystem), (b) version-specific Android security issues, and © SMB/protocol version issues.

That doesn't mean that you *will* hit those, but - if you get issues - that's where I'd start looking.

A quick Google for "SMB|NFS|FTP server Android" shows a couple on the Play store, e.g.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...r&hl=en_GB

https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...a&hl=en_GB

https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...e&hl=en_GB

https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...r&hl=en_GB

ES File Explorer has fallen out of favour in these parts because of some suspicious behaviour, particularly on the free version, but that also has a a "remote management" function that, I think, starts up an FTP server.