SAPIDO Tech English: How to share your files in Samba Server with Android smartphone or Tablet PC?

How to share your files in Samba Server with Android smartphone or Tablet PC?

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Sapido launches various broadband router with inbuilt samba server, which allows computers within same local area network (LAN) can easily access to it for files upload, download, or edit.... Moreover, it could also work as the file servers of Android system smartphone or Tablet PC....etc. You can enjoy the WiFi media streaming effortlessly.

Install APP - ES File Explorer and RockPlayer Lite

First, please enter into「Market」.

Click “Search” icon on the right upper side in 「Market」, and key “es” on the top bar. Then, click “Search” icon on the right side.

Wait for the searching result, and click “ES File Explorer” application program. You can see the related information, and the “Install” icon will be showed on the bottom.

There is several notices will be showed after clicking “Install”, and click “OK” to start downloading and installing. Select “Your item will be downloaded” in 「Market」, you can see the achieved percentage of scheduled progress.

When you complete the installation, “ES File Explorer” will show installed as the following picture.

In accordance with the duplicate method for installing “RockPlayer Lite”.

When you complete the installation, “RockPlayer Lite” will show installed as the following picture.

Connect smartphone or Tablet PC with Android system to your Samba router

Samba is an application network in local area. You have to connect your smartphone or tablet PC with Android system to SAPIDO router wirelessly before using.

Enter into “Settings”, and click “Wireless Manager”. Open “WiFi” function, and the wireless stations which can be connected nearby will be surveyed.

Click the network you would like to connect and key the password. Then, click “Join” on the left bottom to finish connection.

Application

Click “ES File Explorer” on smartphone or tablet PC with Android system for entering into the program. Click “Local” on the left upper side, the window will pop up “Change View”.

Select “LAN”, and click the “Search” icon on the upper menu. The program will scan the servers in local area network automatically.

The scanning results will show on the screen. Click the server you would like to connect, and “SAPIDO_GR-1733_sda1” folder will show up. The folder will build up automatically, and the files in the folder can be shared. In addition, you can change the files displaying way by clicking the right upper icon.

Click “SAPIDO_GR-1733_sda1” and you will see all files and sub folders in it. (The folders in the following picture are built up premium for instruction.) The major function of “ES File Explorer” is management of files. Not only downloading the files to smartphone or tablet PC, but also uploading the files to the server. Otherwise, you can execute the files on-line without downloading. But “ES File Explorer” doesn’t support lots of format. Except the music and pictures, you have to execute the files with other software which supports a variety of files. (EX: you have to execute “pdf” files by 「Adobe Reader」.)

How to apply 「RockPlayer Lite」 for playing videos through ES File Explorer?

There are videos in the folder as the following picture. Select one of those, the window will pop up “Complete action using” and choose RockPlayer Lite. Then, the video will start to play.

Another way is long pressing the file. The window will pop up “Operations” for more options. Click “Open As”, and select “video”, the “Complete action using” window will show afterwards. This operation method can be used when this format can not be read or the file is going to be copied, renamed or deleted.