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AndSMB is a SMB (Samba/CIFS) client for Android devices. It allows connecting to shared folders hosted on Windows or Samba servers over Wifi/3G/4G. It allows managing several connections with authentication. It comes with both a device file browser and a SMB file browser. It provides download and upload support for files and folders. It can synchronize folders. You can rename, delete, get file details, create folders open local and remote files. It comes with share feature for gallery. WINS server, LMHOSTS and broadcast address options are available for name resolution. Browse and transfer intents are available for third party applications. Root access is not needed.
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Not good can't play linux files, doesn't tell you where it downloads files, can't handle some file types. I use total commander with samba plugin - faultless - i can play a movie over the LAN with TC but not this? WTF!
Murat Gundogdu
Only SMB sync app that work as I need. Believe me I tried and spend enough time make all main stream sync apps working for my wish, but all had some problems (some does not connect PC share, some downloads all files even if it is not changed, etc.) This is the only one working as promised at the time of writing of this review. I set up a one way sync profile from my Windows 10 PC music folder to LG V20 (Android 7) SD card music folder. Downloads, local delete, local update operations seems OK. Synchronization is fast as it can be. So I'm happy with that app. Wishes for future versions: - If file size is not changed for a changed file, it cannot be synchronized. I tested this and I can confirm. File size and file date checks should be optional, so users can choose one or both to have better results. - I couldn't find any option to rename current sync profile after created it for the first time. If this isn't my mistake, addition of this option would be great.
N Cart
Cannot Upload Files Downloading files is all good. If I try to upload anything from the phone it throws a Java communication error regardless on WiFi or mobile data. I have tried reinstalling the application and restarting the phone to no avail
Excellent work Im hard to please and rarely give 5*'s but this app earns it np. I bet the initial connect sure confuses the non technically minded folks and even i had a bit of trouble getting my external sdcard setup as dl directory but i always expec t that since Android 5.0 and otherwise impeccable work, folks, polite ads ya but i dont mind good devs making a buck all the features i need and afaik no file size limitations for me this apps a keeper, even converting to system app asap
David Coble
Runs pretty slow. I ran speedtest while I had a file transfer in progress. Speedtest reported 90+ Mbps, file transfer with AndSMB hovers around 105 KB/s. I would have drooled in the 80s.
vern wolf
Great app Great app. Let's me transfer and manage files on my server. It may be an Android wifi sleep issue but transfers that take more than 30 minutes fail.
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Not good can't play linux files, doesn't tell you where it downloads files, can't handle some file types. I use total commander with samba plugin - faultless - i can play a movie over the LAN with TC but not this? WTF!
Only SMB sync app that work as I need. Believe me I tried and spend enough time make all main stream sync apps working for my wish, but all had some problems (some does not connect PC share, some downloads all files even if it is not changed, etc.) This is the only one working as promised at the time of writing of this review. I set up a one way sync profile from my Windows 10 PC music folder to LG V20 (Android 7) SD card music folder. Downloads, local delete, local update operations seems OK. Synchronization is fast as it can be. So I'm happy with that app. Wishes for future versions: - If file size is not changed for a changed file, it cannot be synchronized. I tested this and I can confirm. File size and file date checks should be optional, so users can choose one or both to have better results. - I couldn't find any option to rename current sync profile after created it for the first time. If this isn't my mistake, addition of this option would be great.
Cannot Upload Files Downloading files is all good. If I try to upload anything from the phone it throws a Java communication error regardless on WiFi or mobile data. I have tried reinstalling the application and restarting the phone to no avail
Excellent work Im hard to please and rarely give 5*'s but this app earns it np. I bet the initial connect sure confuses the non technically minded folks and even i had a bit of trouble getting my external sdcard setup as dl directory but i always expec t that since Android 5.0 and otherwise impeccable work, folks, polite ads ya but i dont mind good devs making a buck all the features i need and afaik no file size limitations for me this apps a keeper, even converting to system app asap
Runs pretty slow. I ran speedtest while I had a file transfer in progress. Speedtest reported 90+ Mbps, file transfer with AndSMB hovers around 105 KB/s. I would have drooled in the 80s.
Great app Great app. Let's me transfer and manage files on my server. It may be an Android wifi sleep issue but transfers that take more than 30 minutes fail.
Simple yet effective I use this to connect to my home FreeNAS setup and it works perfectly with no annoying bells and whistles, great app!
Not fit for purpose Background transfer fails after a few minutes of being in the background. Not suitable for copying many files at once or you will need to keep the app open and screen on.
Works! It's so refreshing to have something work, the way expected, consistently every use. This app is high quality!
Ok-ish But streaming does not work (starts download instead!?).
Its a fine little program to mount and upload to a samba fileserver. It also works over openvpn to an internal vpn IP. It does not stream content. Overall impressive!
It works very well !! but there are things to improve. vr thnks!!!
User researcher This cut through a lot of time I would've spent looking for old items forgotten
NOT FOR GEEKS You give me smbclient but I want mount -t cifs...
Does what is says I upload, download, and synchronize perfectly. It does exactly what I want.
Very useful and used everyday. All my devices and computers are on my Linksys EA WiFi router, which serves a USB storage. With AndSMB on all my android tablets, I easily transfer files between them. Setup was easy; you just have to know your network settings and login info. Non intrusive permissions made this my choice of client. The others wanted too much personal access. Not sure if this app limits transfer speeds, but uploads to my NAS storage is well below my 100 mbps wireless capabilities. Only noticeable with large video transfers.
Good stuff I use this to share files from my phone to my work pc, home pc, network shares. Connect to vpn and copy down files while on the road or in bed. It's really facilitated my laziness. It's so powerful, and I love it. Wish there were a cheaper way to remove ads for those of us who don't need the other pro features. I'll probably buy it anyway just to support the developer.
Great! This worked great until it didn't.. One day I tried to open my file share and it just went to the local storage on my phone.. I deleted and re-entered my server info, still the same thing happens. Down to one star from five until it's fixed.
Not great Backgrounding the app in mid transfer locks up, have to force quit, restart transfer. Could not dl to external storage, permission error, app offered no way to fix or point me in the right direction how to alter perms. 2 stars for connecting and downloading while i watched a progress bar.
Spent a lot of time trying to load a SMB drive, but no luck. Tried different user account, share names, nothing works. Next tried Astro SMB module, added Samba share IP address and folders show up immediately
It does what it says I had hoped for something that would connect me to my windows workgroup, but it only allows you to connect to a samba server. As far as that goes, it's good but there are better apps. Maybe this has some specialized features that some might need, but I don't know what that is.
Pre Kit Kat: 5 stars This app was solid until I replaced my phone. I'm now on a phone running Android Kit Kat and it's no longer possible for AndSMB to write to the extsdcard. There's a mention of supporting the Storage Access Framework in Android 5.0 but I'm on 4.4 for the foreseeable future. Obviously I've had a couple of years of a great app for no money so I won't complain. Thanks Lysesoft but goodbye for now.
Does the Job Right This app does its job right and gets the task I need to compete done. The app, due to the very minimalistic design, can be frustrating to use. Absolutely no thought in terms of design was included in the development of apps. I understand that the majority of ITs / network admins couldn't care less about how it looks, but they do care when it affects the usability of the app.
CAN'T D/L FILES. SAYS NEED TO SELECT TARGET FOLDER FIRST. HOW DO YOU SELECT TARGET FOLDER FIRST? WHY INSTEAD OF THAT ERROR DOESN'T IT GIVE THE OPTION TO SELECT TARGET FOLDER? Come on this is basic stuff. The dev should look up the meaning of the word "intuitive".
Didn't work, annoying ads Hard to know if I'm typing in the right password when I can't see the characters and the screen is flashing. After 3 tries I'm sure it was right, but no dice. I can see the share from another app, so I know it should work.
Minimal but efficient Quite basic but really quick to set up and get going. Media player could do with some basic improvements though, just to bring it up to the levels of at least the stock media player on the android device
Crippling password bug This and the other And* apps (especially AndFTP) have a bug that prevents the use of special characters in the password field. Just try using $ as the first character in your password. I should not have to change my password for an app to work when other apps work fine under the same conditions.
OK Pretty good overall. Few problems/suggestions: Many timeout problems and slow throughput while transferring many files. Very slow throughput. Streaming music should allow to stream through external music app. Also, if I'm streaming music and hit the home button, then go back into the app, there is no way to interact with that stream anymore. It just plays in the back ground, unseen, until I kill the app.
Works great with windows 7 shares App took a tiny tiny bit of setup. First on PC I shared the folders I wanted. Then I fumbled around a bit before getting the andSMB to find the shares. But not bad to setup and works great!
Authentication always fails Every attempt to authenticate using the same server, user and password settings that work on the three PCs here fails. If this app actually worked, it would be useful. 2015.2.3: Even after update to new version, & some help from vendor, authentication still fails. 2015.2.5: Installed Antek Explorer & its SMB client, and it connects with no problems. Uninstalling AndSMB.
Can't cut files from local device storage and paste to remote disk Looks nice, but basic things you just can't do. You can 'upload' to remote disk but it copies, it doesn't move. Absolute pain to use.
Aweful - Update removes features First the non-optional UI change, now the removal of features. This app is getting worse and worse with every update, I'm looking for an alternative that doesn't try to shake down its users by removing features and perverting the UI.
Sync is broken The SMB browser is adequate and reliable, however syncing my phone with my router's usb hard drive makes for a frustrating experience. All I see is "computing synchronization report" with no subsequent reports. Surely this can be imporoved??
Not what I expected Still looking for a non-root SMB client which would mount a network share and allow other apps to access files on it. This app does access the share but it's not mounted where I specified and forces me to open files through this app, one by one while serving ads. I guess that could be useful to someone but it's not my cup of tea.
US date format This app uses the US mm-dd-yy date format (which NO other country uses) and makes it harder to use. Needs an option to select your preferred date format. Why are some Americans so blinkered??
Will not work Connected to same WiFi router as laptop, but claims that known good user credentials are no good. Worthless app might just as well be spyware.
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What's New
- Android 7.x support.
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Updated
September 18, 2016
Installs
1,000,000 - 5,000,000
Current Version
3.4
Requires Android
3.0 and up
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