I’m looking for an easy to use, light weight app to connect to my local SMB share (via username and password).
Any suggestions?
The “big” ones either cost or are shit.
UPDATE: thanks everyone for your suggestions! I’ll give the apps a shot and will report back. This will take me some time tho - bear with me!
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I’ve used one called CIFS Documents Provider in the past, worked very well.
It adds SMB/CIFS as a storage provider like Google Drive or Nextcloud to the Android built in file manager.
Available only from Play Store, AFAIK. And I think I was still on Android 14 last I used it.
Tried it, but can’t seem to upload files to it via the Google Files app.
xplore
not foss but works great
Mix explorer
I second material files. Great for network file access and no ads.
Cx File Explorer does the job for me. Does local, cloud and network - SMB included.
Just set up the location and go.
This one worked like a charm, thanks!
Awesome.
It also works very well from the share context in Android, once remotes are set up. Handy for when I just want to dump some photos on my desktop.
Try the ones on fdroid like Amaze or Material Files, IIRC they support SMB.
Material Files did what I wanted, but I ended up only uploading with 10KByte/s via this app (5ghz WiFi or 2.4Ghz, same speed). No clue what went wrong, but that’s quite unusable for me.
Did you try Amaze?
I second material files
totalcommander has it as a built in feature. it was about 2x faster than the cifs documents provider app on f-droid for some reason.
Doesn’t even connect to my smb, for reasons beyond my knowledge.
+1 for this. I’ve been using it for years. Handles downloads and uploads nicely.
