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i'm pretty dumb so please bear with me i have a tower in my house that acts as a server for my plex stuff, as well as to use for backups of stuff and other misc junk. it's literally just a windows 10 PC with a bunch of hard drives in it. I don't even have a monitor hooked up to it though it's mostly used for plex, i do put stuff on it that i would like to share on other devices. i've never had a problem accessing files from other windows computers but i routinely have a lot of issues with accessing files on certain apps on android, but not on others. for example, kodi will not connect to my server about 70% of the time. yet X-Plore on Android has never once had a problem ever connecting to it. there's another android video app that has never once been able to connect to it, despite the app showing "SERVER-PC" just fine, and me putting in the correct username and password when the app asks. am I "sharing" the drives improperly? basically all I do is right click each drive, choose share, and allow access to it to anyone that knows the server's username and password. I figured that was the most simplistic method but a ton of stuff still gives me problems when trying to connect to it. thanks, sincerely, a moron (me)
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sounds like both your oses (windows and android) are Pieces of poo poo op. hope this helped
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Jul 6, 2019 09:09
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ditch windows 10 on the server and install linux instead
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hope u enjoy learning all about linux’s arcane permission system, and then realize you also need to figure out how selinux works until you just say gently caress it and set everything to 777 and inevitably get owned by ransomware get a proper NAS op
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Jul 6, 2019 13:28
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Hoobastank4ever97 posted:i'm pretty dumb so please bear with me idk if windows 10 has it but 7 has a built in web server that is really easy to use. you just point it at the folders all your poo poo is in and it will serve them like a website and then it's reachable from any device on the network and its 100 times easier than figuring out what to do with a shared disk or whatever
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Jul 6, 2019 15:17
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use acl if you need fine grained group control it's been a long time since selinux was an issue when you do bog standard things as a file server
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Jul 6, 2019 18:40
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if you have a Real Amount of RAM just put FreeNAS on there and be pretty much done with data corruption forever.
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Jul 7, 2019 07:02
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Hoobastank4ever97 posted:i'm pretty dumb so please bear with me oh god there are so many problems here
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Jul 10, 2019 06:43
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:oh god there are so many problems here
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:oh god there are so many problems here
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Jul 10, 2019 13:13
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Shaggar posted:none of this is true. the problem is android is a linux and linuxes cant do file shares. samba is still unusable trash after 20 years of development. Please do not sign your posts with the fulltext of the note your mother pinned to you shirt when she dropped you off at college, hth?
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Jul 10, 2019 13:25
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q: my windows doesn't want to share files with my linux a1: windows are bad at sharing files with linuxes, don't use them a2: linuxes are bad at having files shared with them by windows 
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Jul 10, 2019 13:31
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Corla Plankun posted:idk if windows 10 has it but 7 has a built in web server that is really easy to use. you just point it at the folders all your poo poo is in and it will serve them like a website and then it's reachable from any device on the network and its 100 times easier than figuring out what to do with a shared disk or whatever yeah IIS can be installed from the windows features dialog and if the linuxes support http then you can just share stuff that way
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Jul 10, 2019 13:45
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by "server" I literally mean a tower sitting in my basement where I dump family photos/videos, TV shows, movies etc. It runs Plex and it's not like I am hosting websites or Halo 4 matches. I can't switch to Linux because it's also used for gaming stuff sometimes. it's not even an android thing because as i mentioned, certain apps can access the drives/files just fine, such as X-Plore (a file browser app on Android). kodi is the biggest culprit with refusing to connect. however, i narrowed down the issue. i can connect just fine in Kodi if i put in the IP address of this desktop (the "server"). however, it absolutely refuses to find anything when i tell it to connect to the network. back in the day i remember it would say \\server-pc\ and let me browse to my movie folder or whatever. now, the only way i can ever get it to find my movies is by manually putting in the IP address. so again i must reiterate, it used to work just fine. i'd live with this but a few android apps do not let you put in the ip address; it wants to use the PC name, which is named SERVER. whenever i try to connect to \\SERVER in the app, i get a connection failure (even though it "finds" the server just fine). so tl;dr version: other than with other windows 10 machines in my home, i cannot connect to my server by the server's username and password, but i can connect by IP address and password. i want to be able to do it via server/username name. please help me figure out what's wrong
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Jul 10, 2019 17:02
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throw it in the trash and buy a goddamn synology
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Jul 10, 2019 17:08
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Hoobastank4ever97 posted:by "server" I literally mean a tower sitting in my basement where I dump family photos/videos, TV shows, movies etc. It runs Plex and it's not like I am hosting websites or Halo 4 matches. I can't switch to Linux because it's also used for gaming stuff sometimes. you don't have your own dns Also stop loving around and graph posted:buy a goddamn synology
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Jul 10, 2019 17:12
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Try toggling whatever smb versions your server supports. CIFS can suck rear end at smb3.x sometimes
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Jul 10, 2019 17:15
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Captain Foo posted:you don't have your own dns netbios should be handling name resoluton
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Jul 10, 2019 17:15
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:netbios should be handling name resoluton anroid
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Jul 10, 2019 17:17
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Captain Foo posted:anroid yep, that'll do it https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=906089 figure out how to register that name on your router's dns daemon I guess
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Jul 10, 2019 17:20
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:yep, that'll do it This would explain why I have no issues accessing it on other Windows devices but can't on android. excellent. i will try to figure this out, and i will probably reply 17 hours later after ripping my hair out asking how to do it. tyvm!
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Jul 10, 2019 17:29
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imagine posting a link to xda developers in 2019
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:yep, that'll do it ok it's been 17 hours and i couldn't figure it out i've googled it a shitload but no actual answers from anyone. just forum threads on other sites that lead to nothing if someone can tell me how to do this on an asus rt-ac86u i'll buy you an account upgrade or something. it's worth it for the blood pressure that it would relieve
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Hoobastank4ever97 posted:ok it's been 17 hours and i couldn't figure it out we've told you the right way to do it if you insist on doing it the hard way, even after we've told you why it doesn't work, lol that's on you pal
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Captain Foo posted:we've told you the right way to do it i'm not installing linux, friend. it's also being used as a gaming pc, and i'd like to have sound, as well as play games
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Hoobastank4ever97 posted:i'm not installing linux, friend. it's also being used as a gaming pc, and i'd like to have sound, as well as play games graph posted:buy a goddamn synology
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Jul 11, 2019 13:11
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gameing
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im not spending unnecessary money towards my desktop server because android will only connect to networks via ip address and not computer names, but thanks for the advice. i'll just figure out the router trick or stop caring (probably the latter)
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Jul 11, 2019 13:23
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your problem isn't not having linux well okay that is your problem but the solvable part of your problem isn't not having linux, it's android not resolving \\SERVER to 192.420.69.1 cause you don't have a local dns install a windows dns to resolve local names?
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Jul 11, 2019 13:27
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flakeloaf posted:your problem isn't not having linux doing some googling it seems like that might actually fix my problem. i would have never came across that on my own so thank you greatly
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Hoobastank4ever97 posted:ok it's been 17 hours and i couldn't figure it out If that box is always on, then make it be your home DNS server and configure your router dhcp to have clients point at it, then you can set a manual entry. I don't think the asus firmware supports static dns entries. That or you need to find some kind of 3rd party firmware with more features.
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rc-ac86u oughta support asuswrt-merlin that's cfw but that'll let you run dnsmasq on the router to act as name resolver if you point your network devices at it
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Jul 11, 2019 14:07
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install a dns on ur gameing pc
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Jul 11, 2019 14:39
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flakeloaf posted:you don't have a local dns that's the first thing i said lmao
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Jul 11, 2019 14:59
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Captain Foo posted:that's the first thing i said lmao right ?
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Jul 11, 2019 15:00
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op you should get the best gameing pc, the nintendo switch
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then you can ditch your current shitheap and get a fuckin synology
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Jul 11, 2019 15:06
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the synology wouldn't work either because the problem is name resolution in linux clients
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You could do DNS and DHCP with a PiHole or two? PiHole is so easy even I was able to get it working?
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Captain Foo posted:that's the first thing i said lmao my job is to say the thing other people already said in different words 
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