Sharing from the q10 to windows 8.1

[Mick]

Hey Folks,

I have a 3 TB external hdd plugged into the q10 pro box. (I will get an internal one later but want to get this to work first).

The samba service is turned on and the box shows up on my windows 8.1 computer three times under media devices but when I go to my network it does not show up as a network drive. I want this set up so that I can go to my windows computer and move files over to the ext hdd connected to the q10 box. But I need to map this as a network drive and it does not show as an available network drive. Is there a step I am missing? This is a new q10 box with android 7 on it.

Your help is appreciated.

[Eriol]

Copy this command to a cmd prompt:

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NET VIEW
This will give you the device's name on the network (eg: \\ANDROID_xxxxx)

Then use this to attach it as a network device:

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NET USE Q: \\DEVICE_NAME\share /PERSISTENT:YES

[Mick]

I can see it now in my network as a share. I was misreading the start and stop of the samba service. It says start when it is started and stop when it is stopped. I should have known better.

Thanks,

M