New extension: SMB Manager

[Jörg Hüneburg]

Hi fellow app inventors,

This is my first public extension, which can do the following:

• List all files and folders of smb share (windows shared folder)
• Copy a local file to smb share
  

I hope to add more functionality soon. Feel free to criticize , report bugs or share your ideas for improvement.

I'm not a Java pro, so there still could be some bugs, don't use it for production yet!!

To accomplish this extension I used the jcifs library which is also used in all major Android file managers that support smb. 

[Tim Carter]

Well done Jörg!

I guess the best bit of functionality would be to be able to "play/open" a file on the smb using activity starter or onboard players (e.g. pdf, mp3 or mkv)

Maybe already allows for this?

Tim

[Abraham Getzler]

(added to FAQ Extensions section)

https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/mitappinventortest/2cd6Uz__xA0/cPQSiZpcDAAJ

ABG

[Jörg Hüneburg]

Thanks, Tim!

Good idea, I wanted to add download functionality anyways, streaming seems to be similar. I'll check into it

[Taifun]

great! keep up the good work!
Taifun

[Taifun]

Version 2 of the SMB manager extension has been posted here https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mitappinventortest/ilbNL4dnZx0/lqmvJEKnAgAJ

Taifun

[Genesio Conti]

Hello Jorg,

it is not so much clear how to set the destination path and where by default the extension store a downloaded file.

Can u publish an example ? eg.

i set the source path to /192.168.0.42/Shared/abc.txt

where does the extension places the downloaded file and which is the syntax to store it in makeroid folder or sdcard folder ?

Thank you so much

Gene