Nomen Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 (edited) I have enabled a directory to be shared on my win-98 system with full-access and no password. I have a Polaroid tablet running android 4.0.4 and I have absolutely no problems using ES file browser to locate the win-98 machine and browse the directory structure of the shared folder. Image files (like album cover-art jpg files) are rendered perfectly. I can copy, cut and paste files between the two devices.But I can't play/stream any content from the win-98 shared folder!!! I've installed about 1/2 dozen different audio players on the tablet, and from ES file-explorer when I click on any given file on the share, I am prompted to choose a player, and when I do, the player seems to try to play the file (and I can hear a brief burst of hard-drive activity on the win-98 machine) but the operation fails - either by telling me that it's trying to connect to "127.0.0.1" or that the file-type is somehow incompatible.I've been able to stream media files from an XP machine to the tablet, so I know this _can_ work. Any idea why it doesn't work on win-98? Is there a difference in the SMB that win-98 implements vs XP?Edit: I believe (and I need to check this) that ES File Explorer can't or doesn't discover the win-98 machine on it's own during a search - I have to enter the IP address of the win-98 PC and then it persistently shows up in ES-fe from that point onwards as an IP address (not as machine-name or host-name, etc). I don't know how to remove it from ES-fe and see if I can replicate this. Edited August 14, 2013 by Nomen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TmEE Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 My GF copied the files from the share to the SD card and then watched from there. She also could not get files play directly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drugwash Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Make sure both devices share the same Workgroup.Try Trout player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomen Posted August 14, 2013 Author Share Posted August 14, 2013 Can someone tell me if this "lanman" thing is the root issue here?http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/win9x_samba.htm----------Samba version 3.2.0 turned off lanman support by default, both on the client (client lanman auth=) and the server (lanman auth=). 3.2.0 also turned off the default for client plaintext auth=. Before 3.2.0 all three were turned on by default. Windows 9x can only work with lanman support, so unless a corresponding modification of smb.conf is done before the first login, there will be Win9x access failures.----------This (and other stuff I find on the web) talks about win-98 and SMB in the context of a client - not a server. I'd like to find something that talks about SMB/Samba in the context of win-98 being the server, and android being the client. And android is just another form of linux - yes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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