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Dhruv
Dhruv

Reputation: 387

How to access files on a local server in android?

I need to access files on a local sever, and obtain their path for use in a File object.

I'm not able to find a solution on the internet where both accessing a local server and listing its files is achieved.

So, how do I get file paths from a local server for performing File operations?



Edit 1:

By local server I mean a computer on my network on which I have a shared folder.

And I'm building an app that can access that folder and contents in it and do something with them.

I am facing problems fetching file paths to that shared folder content.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3630

Answers (1)

Dhruv
Dhruv

Reputation: 387

Thanks everyone who helped...

My answer might help someone.

NtlmPasswordAuthentication auth = new NtlmPasswordAuthentication("", username, password);
// username and password which you use for logging into your Windows PC
SmbFile network;

try {
        network = new SmbFile("smb://servername or IPAddress", auth);
        for (SmbFile node : network.listFiles()) {

            // network path is now contained in 'node'
        }
    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (SmbException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

You'll have to add
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
in your AndroidManifest.xml before the <application> tag

and

ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this /*context*/, new String[]{Manifest.permission.INTERNET}, MY_PERMISSIONS); in your Activity.java for getting access to Internet on API target 23 (Android 6.0) and above.

Download and include in your project jcifs-x.x.xx.jar for SmbFile and NtlmPasswordAuthentication Class, from here.

Upvotes: 1

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