How to mount your Android device over WiFi

Install on your android device Samba Server (I believe this best one)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icecoldapps.sambaserver&hl=en

There is not additional configuration on Windows 7,8. Simply run Windows+R and type here \\XX.XX.XX.XX

Where XX.XX.XX.XX is your device's local IP address

Xubuntu:

Ensure XX.XX.XX.XX is pinging, if not try to either restart WiFi or reboot your phone

Try to mount your device

sudo mkdir /mnt/android/

sudo mount -t cifs //XX.XX.XX.XX/storage /mnt/android/ -o pass=''

If you got

mount: //XX.XX.XX.XX/sorage/ is not a valid block device

Try to run the following command

sudo apt-get install samba-client samba-common cifs-utils -y

This should fix the error out

Check if mounted successfully

mount -v | grep cifs

Update your fstab file

sudo vi /etc/fstab

With the following line:

//XX.XX.XX.XX/storage /mnt/android/  cifs    pass="",noauto    0   0

Congratulation, how you can mount your device simply running

sudo mount /mnt/android

ls -la /mnt/android

To umount this out run

sudo umount /mnt/android

Please note if you got "Unable to find suitable address" it means you just enabled your Samba Server and you need to wait during this updating for access

 

 

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