Windows 10: Access Win10 PC via Android ES File Explorer

Thank you so much.... THIS DOES WORK!!!

 

Thanks! This works! In my case each computer on the network ended up with a different user name and using the "whoami" took out the guessing work. Password was the same for the two computers in the network, and was the same as the my live.com account. Now can access folders through my Android phone via ES Explorer and other file managers.

 

Interesting, I can't either get my Android apps to connect to a Windows 10 machine. Works great on all other shares I have created on other OS versions.

A windows to Windows connection works great however.

 

Also on the Sharing tab of the properties screen click the link for Network and Sharing center.

 

I wasn't able to login in ES file explorer, no matter what I tried (tried everything on this thread) - so I remembered that I'm logging into win10 with a PIN, and I changed my MS password recently, so I had to login with my password - not PIN - again in order for it to get cached in my machine, after that ES File Explorer connected just fine *Biggrin

 

Great for you!

I can only get ONE application to connect to my shares on a Windows 10 computer from Android. I guess it's the only App that understands all the needed authentication and communication protocols. The rest can't login no matter what I try. They all used to work great, but not anymore. I am not going to drop security on Windows though. If Android apps can't connect it's not a big deal. I can always remote in to my PC and share local Android storage and put the files I need there. Or just use OneDrive or another cloud service. *Smile

 

Use FileZilla client (not server) on your Windows PC, and a WiFi File Transfer android app on your phone or tablet.

 

I've been accessing my Win10 network computers using WiFi at home with my Samsung Galaxy S7 running X-Plore. This has worked quite well until the latest Fall Creators Edition (1709) came out last month. Two of my three computers updated right away and I immediately lost access to them. The third was still fine until it updated yesterday and now I have no access. This has to be something with the increased security in the new windows release, but I haven't found out what to tweak yet. I did try turning off the new Windows Defender Firewall on the local network as a test, but it didn't make any difference.

There has to be a way to get the android stuff to connect. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.

 

I just recently switched from win7 to win10 on this PC (because a windows 7 update destroyed my dual boot BCD, again). ES File Explorer worked fine with win7 pc's. Now it "cannot find server" with win10.

All the settings (that I can see) are the same. I've tried everything in this thread, except turning off password protected sharing, that's not going to happen.

This topic needs a bump up because it should be considered new again since the 1709 update.

So, I dumped ES File Explorer and Got X-Plore, problem solved.