

#SAMBA SERVER ANDROID FOR ANDROID#
Samba Filesharing for Android has some neat features such as WiFi whitelist. The downsides of course are that you’re now limited by the speed of the WiFi connection, which when dealing with massive files is an issue, but not so much with smaller sets. I can also access the files on my EVO 4G LTE while it’s plugged into a wall charger (charges at 1000mA+) as opposed to the USB on my computer (charges at 500mA). Opking\sdcard from any computer and, with a prompt for username and password, access my phone’s SD card directly.

For me, this means instead of getting stopped at the exit, given a project, copying to a network share, going to my office, plugging the phone into my computer, accessing the share, and copying the files over to my SD card, I can simply type in Basically whenever I enter my office or home WiFi, any computer in the network suddenly sees a network device called nopking and can read and write to it like a standard network share. This app allows your phone to function as a network share. Samba Filesharing for Android helps me with that, and many other things. In the past, this has involved plugging into the computer or transferring it to a network share, and then grabbing it before I left, which isn’t always opportune when you work in a multi-story building with your office as far away as physically possible from the exit.

As part of my job I transfer a lot of data to and from work via USB sticks and my trusty HTC EVO 4G LTE with a 64GB SDXC expansion card.
