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Author Topic: Windows cannot access sdcard with Samba  (Read 3128 times)

EdenResident

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Windows cannot access sdcard with Samba
« on: April 24, 2017, 07:11:13 PM »
Hello,

I've set up Samba on my Q10 pro. I can access the internal hard drive (sdb) and attached USB drive (sda) just fine. However when I try to access sdcard, I get the following message

Windows cannot access \\android_478ed\share\sdcard
You do not have permission to access \\android_478ed\share\sdcard. Contact your network administrator to request access.

Please note that I can still access other folders just fine. It's just this one (sdcard) that's giving me trouble. I log in as administrator and password it enabled.

Do you have any idea why this happens? Thanks in advance.

Phil181

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Re: Windows cannot access sdcard with Samba
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2017, 08:19:25 AM »
Probably looking in the wrong spot!
You should still be able to log in from Windows to Android_xxxx/share/sdcard  as I do to place files into the /download directory and also to /data to copy
Kodi files for backups.

Under Android 7 the internal and attached USB drives come up under Android_xxxx/share/media_rw/sdxx
A physical SD Card, however, is found under a separate folder; Android_xxx/share/media_rw/mmcblk1p1 (or whatever your card shows).  This SD Card name has not changed since the original Android 5.1 firmware (/media_rw folder name is new with Android 7).

[Firmware 2.0.3 Android 7, Windows 10]

EdenResident

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Re: Windows cannot access sdcard with Samba
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2017, 05:12:55 PM »
Probably looking in the wrong spot!
You should still be able to log in from Windows to Android_xxxx/share/sdcard  as I do to place files into the /download directory and also to /data to copy
Kodi files for backups.

Under Android 7 the internal and attached USB drives come up under Android_xxxx/share/media_rw/sdxx
A physical SD Card, however, is found under a separate folder; Android_xxx/share/media_rw/mmcblk1p1 (or whatever your card shows).  This SD Card name has not changed since the original Android 5.1 firmware (/media_rw folder name is new with Android 7).

[Firmware 2.0.3 Android 7, Windows 10]

Hi Phil,
I'm using Android 5 and my Q10 doesn't have the media_rw folder like you said. My shared directory structure is like this

\\ANDROID_478ED\share
asec
obb
sda
sdb
sdcard
secure
shell

Of those, I cannot access the last 3, sdcard, secure and shell. I got the "you do not have permission to access".

 

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