Hi all.
I am having an issue, specifically between my Android devices, and my new Win 8.1 PC.
I have an older Acer 6930 laptop running Windows 7 Professional, and my mentioned new Windows 8.1 ASUS M11 tower.
I use an app called ES File Explorer on my Android devices, an LG G3 (phone) and a Samsung Tab 3 8.0 (tablet) to access Windows shares on those PC's. Has always worked for last two plus years for me with all previous Androids I have owned.
For some reason, I specifically cannot access the 4 external HDD's attached to the new Windows 8.1 machine from my Android devices.
Symptoms
---The internal HDD partition (D drive) on my Windows 8.1 machine is accessible from my Androids, the external HDD's are NOT.
---The internal partition (D drive) on my Windows 7 Pro machine and the external HDD (F drive) are both accessible on my Androids
---All the drives/shares are accessible from one Windows machine to the other. IE I have full access to my Win 8.1 shares from the laptop, and I have full access to my Win 7 shares from my tower.
Attempted so far......
--- made sure to add Everyone under Advanced Sharing to have Read Access
--- made sure to add Everyone under Securtity to have Read Access, List Contents and Read/Execute
--- Administrator/Administrators and my user account name set with full access in both sharing and security
--- same user account name across both PC, and same password
--- verified both PC's are in same WORKGROUP (WORKGROUP)
--- adding new firewall rules to allow my Androids thru based on their IP (all devices static in my network)
--- tried both enabling and disabling password protected sharing on both PC's
--- tried using ES File Explorer's Anonymous login option and of course logging in with proper user names and password
--- verified ownership of all HDD's all set to my common user account name
The error seen on the Android devices in ES File Explorer says a few things to check to possibly solve the accessibility issue and looks like this:
Login Fails:
This may be caused by:
-WLAN is off
-SMB server is out of network scope
-The IP is invalid
-Blocked by the firewall
-SMB service is off
WLAN can't be off I can access D drive on both PC's from both Androids.
SMB service can't be off or out of scope, again can access D drive on both PC's from Androids.
Firewall shouldn't be an issue as I have allowed both Androids access thru the firewall based on their IP's.....on both PC's
And the IP's must be valid if I can see all the shares.....I just can't access the externals of the Win 8.1 machine.
I tried going into GPEDIT and SecPol.msc but both apparently are missing off my new tower, even though it is in fact Windows 8.1 so I am a little miffed about that. According to what I have read, 8.1 is supposed to include SecPol.msc and GPEdit but apparently not for me.
I don't know what to do from here on. Ive pretty much tried everything I know, and I cannot figure this out. Going to contact the devs of ES File Explorer but I expect that I won't hear from them for a year or two so I thought I could ask here and hope someone has solved something like this before.
At wit's end :shock:. Please tell me I missed something glaringly obvious.
I am having an issue, specifically between my Android devices, and my new Win 8.1 PC.
I have an older Acer 6930 laptop running Windows 7 Professional, and my mentioned new Windows 8.1 ASUS M11 tower.
I use an app called ES File Explorer on my Android devices, an LG G3 (phone) and a Samsung Tab 3 8.0 (tablet) to access Windows shares on those PC's. Has always worked for last two plus years for me with all previous Androids I have owned.
For some reason, I specifically cannot access the 4 external HDD's attached to the new Windows 8.1 machine from my Android devices.
Symptoms
---The internal HDD partition (D drive) on my Windows 8.1 machine is accessible from my Androids, the external HDD's are NOT.
---The internal partition (D drive) on my Windows 7 Pro machine and the external HDD (F drive) are both accessible on my Androids
---All the drives/shares are accessible from one Windows machine to the other. IE I have full access to my Win 8.1 shares from the laptop, and I have full access to my Win 7 shares from my tower.
Attempted so far......
--- made sure to add Everyone under Advanced Sharing to have Read Access
--- made sure to add Everyone under Securtity to have Read Access, List Contents and Read/Execute
--- Administrator/Administrators and my user account name set with full access in both sharing and security
--- same user account name across both PC, and same password
--- verified both PC's are in same WORKGROUP (WORKGROUP)
--- adding new firewall rules to allow my Androids thru based on their IP (all devices static in my network)
--- tried both enabling and disabling password protected sharing on both PC's
--- tried using ES File Explorer's Anonymous login option and of course logging in with proper user names and password
--- verified ownership of all HDD's all set to my common user account name
The error seen on the Android devices in ES File Explorer says a few things to check to possibly solve the accessibility issue and looks like this:
Login Fails:
This may be caused by:
-WLAN is off
-SMB server is out of network scope
-The IP is invalid
-Blocked by the firewall
-SMB service is off
WLAN can't be off I can access D drive on both PC's from both Androids.
SMB service can't be off or out of scope, again can access D drive on both PC's from Androids.
Firewall shouldn't be an issue as I have allowed both Androids access thru the firewall based on their IP's.....on both PC's
And the IP's must be valid if I can see all the shares.....I just can't access the externals of the Win 8.1 machine.
I tried going into GPEDIT and SecPol.msc but both apparently are missing off my new tower, even though it is in fact Windows 8.1 so I am a little miffed about that. According to what I have read, 8.1 is supposed to include SecPol.msc and GPEdit but apparently not for me.
I don't know what to do from here on. Ive pretty much tried everything I know, and I cannot figure this out. Going to contact the devs of ES File Explorer but I expect that I won't hear from them for a year or two so I thought I could ask here and hope someone has solved something like this before.
At wit's end :shock:. Please tell me I missed something glaringly obvious.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS
- Memory
- 12GB
- Hard Drives
- SeaGate External 1 TB X 3
SeaGate External 3 TB
HP 2 TB (Currently FUBAR)
Verbatim 500 GB