Most of those who first become the owner of an Android tablet or smartphone sooner or later ask themselves the question: how to connect an Android device to a computer via WiFi?
If you are tired of transferring files from a personal computer to an Android device and vice versa using a flash drive or memory card, or if you dream of watching movies and listening to music from your PC via WiFi, these couple of methods will help you using well-known programs from the Google Play Store.
The LAN plugin window will open in Play Market. Click on the "Install" button
After installing the plugin on the main screen Total Commander the LAN icon will appear (Windows shared network directories):
With this item, you will navigate to the files and folders on your computer. However, first we need to access it. To do this, click on the above icon, and add a new server to the list of computers by tapping on the corresponding icon:
In the window that opens, type:
The name of your computer, as you want to see it in the list:
Computer network name or network address, username and password:
You do not need to set a username and password if your computer has network access to folders and directories for all users.
To find out the network address of the computer, click on the WiFi connection icon with the second mouse button and select "Status", and in the window that opens, click on the "Details" button.
In the iPv4 Address line you will see the network address of your computer.
All. Now you can access your computer's folders and files through your local network via WiFi.
If you can’t access a computer running Windows-7, try in “Control Panel” -> “Network and Sharing Center” -> “Advanced Sharing Options” check the box next to “Turn off password sharing protection."
Also, make sure that the options "Turn on network discovery" and "Turn on file and printer sharing" are also enabled there.
Also, do not forget in the properties of the disk or folder on the computer to which you want to give access over the network, enable sharing and set permissions for users, if this option is available.
How to access the files of our smartphone through a computer without using a USB cord?
Most users do not even half use the functionality of the applications they use. And now we want to tell you about the insanely popular and functional file manager "ES Explorer". But our story will not be about ordinary functions, but about hidden and little-known functions. Today we will tell you how to access the files of our smartphone through a computer. This will allow us to quickly send and receive files without using a USB cord.
First we need to download and install "ES Explorer", of course, you can download ES Explorer for Android from our website. Next, we open the application, go to the "network" tab and select the "remote access" function and turn on the connection. By the way, our smartphone or tablet must be connected to the computer through the same router.
After that, the connection status and a link will be displayed on the screen of the mobile device, which must be entered into the panel of the standard Windows OS file manager (If you are using Mac OS or Linux, you can use any browser).
Now you can send music, images and other files directly to your smartphone, as well as in the opposite direction. Unlike USB this method connections are much more stable, faster and it does not need extra wires, which is no less important.
Now let's talk about the application settings, which can be accessed from the menu. In order for the connection to work in the background, regardless of the use of other applications, you must uncheck the "close on exit" checkbox. If we have problems with the connection, then we can set the same connection port as on the smartphone. Almost always, the port is selected in automatic mode and you don't have to touch it. Next, you can set the root folder, which will open in the file manager on the PC. To have access to all files and drives at once, I recommend setting the root folder - "whole gadget", the main thing is not to get confused in the system folders!
If you don't want anyone to be able to connect to your device, you can protect it with a username and password. Then, when accessing the smartphone via a PC, we will be asked for a password. It is important that if you forget your password, you will have to delete the application data or simply reinstall "ES Explorer", since the application is always available on our website. I recommend not touching the file encoding. Well, the “create shortcut” function is clear to everyone: a shortcut is created on the desktop for quick launch our FTP server.
So we learned about how you can quickly and conveniently transfer files from a PC to a smartphone / tablet and vice versa. And, without wires and special efforts.
What is required to connect Android to the network
To connect Android to local network it is mandatory to have:
- Wi-Fi router to which the device should be connected;
- computer with Windows system;
- configured Internet access from the mobile phone itself, on which the file manager (ES Explorer) must be installed. You can install the application for working with files through Google Play. In addition, you need to know the password of the network to which the cell phone will connect.
Instructions for connecting Android to a home network
Before you connect Android to your home network, you need to provide access via the network to the necessary files and folders on your computer (or to an entire disk). For this you need:
By adding an account, create a new mobile username: go to the "Start" menu, select "Settings", and then - "Control Panel" and clicking on the item "User Accounts", add a new entry, indicating the boundaries of the rights of the user being created;
- go to the "Access" tab;
- select " General access";
- in the context menu, select a pre-created mobile username, while you can also set the permission level when reading files;
- then you should open the settings menu on the mobile and activate Wi-Fi: this option will become available if you go to the "Wireless networks" section;
- connect to the network by choosing its name correctly, and carefully enter the password; in this case, you can select the "show password characters" option, in order to avoid errors when entering it.
The network name and password can be written in so that you can easily use these data if necessary.
To search for the desired network, you can use the Scan button, after which the search will be performed automatically; When desired network is found, you can simply stop the search. After Android is connected to the network, the user will immediately have access to all folders and files that are allowed access, and will be able to perform the necessary actions with them.
If users think about distributing the Internet via Wi-Fi for their Android phone / tablet in the first place, then after a while there is a desire to transfer their files to a computer via the same Wi-Fi. This approach will allow you to get several advantages - quick access to remote media (including playback of audio / video files), and ... there is no need bluetooth usage or usb cable!
In this guide, I will describe how to implement:
1) Connection mobile device To hard drives Windows PC;
2) General principles for creating a home local area network (LAN).
So, here's what we need (typical set):
It is assumed that your mobile device is already connected to the router via Wi-Fi, since this topic deserves a separate discussion, we will not consider it within the framework of this article.
Usually, when connecting through a router, there are no problems, everything happens automatically, dynamic IP addresses are issued for devices. But it is important that all your computers are in the same workgroup. How to do it?
Go to "Control Panel > System", look for the section "Computer name, domain name, workgroup name" and click "Change settings" and again "Change".
In field " Working group"We write" WORKGROUP ". Then click" OK "and restart the PC.
Go to "Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center" and share folders.
If for some reason we get an error about the unavailability of the RPC server, then go to "Management (right-click on the "My Computer" icon")> Services and Applications" and start the services:
We try to detect our PCs in EN Explorer, if it fails again, go to the next section.
If it is difficult to connect devices in the local network, it is recommended to enter the IP addresses of the devices manually. Occupation is tedious, but not difficult :)
1. We go on the computer to "Control Panel> Network and Internet> change the view to" Large icons "in the upper right corner> Network and Sharing Center> Change adapter settings".
We select our connection, my laptop is connected to the router via an Ethernet cable ("Local Area Connection"), so I configure it. Similarly, you can configure the "Wireless connection".
2. To simplify our task, right-click on the icon of our connection and select the "Status" item, in the window that opens, click the "Details" button.
We are interested in the current IP address of the computer and the main gateway. We will need them in the next paragraph. Leave this window open for now.
In this article, we will consider how to connect a phone or tablet to a computer's local network. This is useful even in cases where you do not have a local network, as such, but only a computer connected to wireless network. The advantages of connecting to a local network are obvious - you will be able to access files and Windows folders, right on your phone.
This is necessary, for example, when you need to watch a movie on your phone. To do this, it is not necessary to connect it to a computer, copy it to a phone, and so on. It is enough to view it by connecting to a local folder. Well, let's start setting up the phone's access to the local network.
First of all, you need to set up a local network on your computer, and set up access to certain files and folders that you will have access to in the future. This is done quite simply, for this it is enough to know how to set up a local network in Windows.
And in order to connect the phone to the local network, you need an application. Let's take the ES File Explorer application as an example. This is a fairly popular file manager program, and with its help you can really get local access to the computer. You can download it from the Play Market, there are no problems with this.
After installing the application, launch it and go to the network connection tab (at the top of the screen, you need to select the computer icon labeled LAN). Now, click the "Scan" button and search for local networks in the area of your phone.
Another connection path can be done by manually creating it. That is, you will need to click on the "Create" button and configure the connection settings manually. In other words, knowing the connection settings for your network, your phone will manual mode make connections. To do this, you will need to know the IP of the computer, as well as set a password if you have set one on your local network. After that, the phone will connect to the local network and all folders and files open for access will become available to you.
That's all you need to know about connecting your phone under Android control, to the local Windows networks. In fact, this is all much simpler than it might seem at first glance, in addition, other applications can be used for such a connection, but the example given is the easiest to implement.
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We expand the possibilities of data exchange between a home computer and a device on the Android platform using a file manager. Preparing the material "File Manager for Android" I came across a cool feature for connecting Android to a Windows local network. So, let's take an example of how to do this.
Given: wifi hotspot access, computer operating system Windows (in my case it is Windows 7), Android gadget with installed file manager, which has a function SAMBA servers(I have ES File Explorer).
This is not a mandatory step, you can use the data of already created users, but I decided to make a new one, especially for authorization through my Android phone.
To create a new user, go to: Start - control panel - add and remove accounts.
Everything is simple here, the only thing is to make an account with normal access. After that, in the account settings, be sure to create a password.
Not necessarily a folder, you can connect a whole partition, for example drive C. Click right click click on the document or folder to which we want to share, go to the "Access" tab and click "Sharing". In the drop-down menu, select the username that you created in the previous step, and do not forget to set the permission level to read and write.
The general section to which we will connect from the Android system has been created.
Launch ES File Explorer, go to the LAN tab. We press the hardware key "Menu", then "Create" in the dialog box, click "Server".
There are a lot of incomprehensible settings, but if you look, then there is nothing wrong with them.
Now about everything in order:
Domain: leave blank
Address: here we drive the IP of our computer (this parameter can be found by writing to the console Windows command ipconfig, how to get into the console can be seen in the screenshots below)
Login: account name from the first step
Password: account password from the first step
Name: leave blank, or come up with any name for our server
After entering all the data, click "OK". Congratulations! The server has been created, now we can go to the computer directly from our phone (well, or tablet).
Greetings to all who have looked at this blog! This article will discuss how you can manage other Android device.
Considered connection method for remote control Suitable for any device running Android - smartphone, tablet, TV set-top box.
Prepare the device to be controlled.
Important! The managed device must have ROOT rights!
On the managed device, install the droid VNC server application from the Play Market.
IN wifi settings select the previously saved network in the list and do the following:
Disable DHCP and set a static IP address:
This is necessary so that the next time you connect to WiFi networks the managed device has not changed its IP address.
The IP address must be specified in the same subnet as the router, that is, it must differ from the IP address of the router only by the last digit. For example, the IP address of the router is 192.168.1.1, respectively, in the settings you need to register the IP address 192.168.1.100
Launch the droid VNC server application and press the Start button.
After that, the IP address and port for connecting to the device will appear:
If desired, in the application settings, you can change the port of the droid VNC server.
On the device from which remote control will be carried out, install the Remote Ripple application. You can also install it from the Play Market.
We add a new device, prescribe the IP address and port specified in the droid VNC server.
After adding, try to connect. If the connection is successful, you will see the desktop of the managed device.
Management is carried out using the mouse, which you will see on the screen.
I consider VNC-Viewer to be the most convenient and simple program for remote control. Download this program Can .
The program settings are similar - you just need to register the IP address and port of the remote device specified in the droid VNC server.
After connecting, a window with a remote desktop will open.
To avoid entering data each time, you can save the connection as separate file with vnc extension.
Practical use
I use these programs to control an Android TV set-top box from a tablet and PC. Very comfortably!
Articles and Lifehacks
For users who have modern gadgets at their disposal - smartphones or tablets, sooner or later the question arises, how to connect Android to a home network?
After all, sooner or later everyone will want to access content from their mobile local computer. At the same time, it is important not only to familiarize yourself with the files, view videos, photos and listen to music, but also duplex copying of files.
After Android is connected to the network, the user will immediately have access to all folders and files that are allowed access, and will be able to perform the necessary actions with them.
