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Can't connect to a shared folder on the PC

Very strange problem. My office computer is running windows xp and the account is password protected (not in a domain, just windows logon) and I can't access the shared folders from my Desire. I've tried with ASTRO and ES File Explorer with no luck. In the same time ES File Explorer can access my home computer's shared folders, which is not password protected.
ES File Explorer do find my office computer, but always says that the user name and password are incorrect.
I have no problem connecting to it with my laptop and my ex HD2.

Are the PC and handset using the same alphabet? Could there be some charset mixup involving Bulgarian, Cyrillic or unicode charsets?

Associating AVI files with Rockplayer.

I'm trying to play AVI files across my network from a samba share in Rockplayer. I use Astro or ES file manager but neither of them will open AVI files in rockplayer.
Any suggestions?

I´ve been trying to figure this out too, but no luck so far.

i dont think android does file association does it?

If your handy with the terminal you could mount the share to a folder on the sdcard, then browse to it from rockplayer.
Like this
http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7457166
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The problem is astro and estrongs file manager are more like samba share browsers - they let you view the share files and folders, but when you try to access any files, they have to copy them to a local directory first. It's more like ftp access in practical terms, rather than true network filesystem access.
So if you succeeded in associating rockplayer with avi files through either astro or estrongs, then the moment you click on an avi file from your samba share, they'd copy the file to your sdcard entirely before it would begin to play. So at best, setting the association would only save you the effort of manually copying and pasting the avi file. Either way you'll be waiting a few minutes for the file to copy to a directory local to your phone.
If you want to access avi files over a samba share directly, you'll need to root and use cifs to mount the samba share on your sdcard, so that the share appears part of the phone's filesystem. Then you can just browse using rockplayer's own file manager throughout your samba share, and play avi files the moment they're clicked on, without any file copy operations or waiting around.
when i got my desire 3 weeks ago i was in the same quandary, and i ended up going the rooted phone with cifs option...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=751296

Another way of sorting this easily is using VLC Stream & Convert - with the added advantage of being able to browse your whole computer and mapped drives and stream data.

Map network drive app?

I have a network drive at my home, is there any app that i can map network drive? Meaning i can acess the drive from my desire?
thanks

ASTRO File Manager has a SMB module. You could try that.

If by mapping you mean mounting, your device must be rooted and using a kernel with CIFS support.
You can then use CifsManager to manage your cifs/nfs network shares.
If you just need to browse or download files from your NAS to your phone, ASTRO or ES File Explorer will be fine.
If you want any application to be able to access your NAS seamlessly like it was a local folder, you will need CIFS support.

I just need to browse, view and delete files so ill use astro.
I need some help setting it up.
What do I enter in the server, share, domain and directory fields?
Which field do I enter the IP and the shared folder name?
Cheers
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[Q] ES File Explorer Internet Access Setup

I am using ES File Explorer and have set it up to include all my cloud storage as well as shared folders on my LAN. All works great over Wi-Fi but have not managed to figure out how to set it up to access my LAN shared folders remotely over Internet.
Is it possible and if yes can you please let me know how or point me to some instructions.

[Q] Other Users and Guest Account's downloaded files

As the main "Admin" user, am I able to see/view files that guests or other user accounts have downloaded through a file manager? (Currently use ES File Explorer)
If I am able to, I haven't been able to find out where those files they download are stored on the device storage.
help?
Thanks!