Mount Linux filesystem from Android

[pk_fox]

Hi all, I've googled but can't find anything decent, how can I mount a Linux filesystem from my Android device, the Linux system ( Raspberry pi ) is on my local LAN and hard wired to a router whilst my Android tablet is connected to the same router via Wi-Fi, I know the mount command supports IP addresses as arguments but I can't seem to get it working , I keep getting "invalid argument" error message.
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[nelz]

You can't mount a Linux filesystem from another computer, you mount a network filesystem. First you need to export the filesystem on the Pi with wither NFS or CIFS (Samba). Then you use something like Mount Manager or CIFS Manager to mount that on the Android device.

Alternatively, you can use ES File Explorer to access remote folders over IFS, SFTP (SSH) or WebDAV. It really depends on what you want to do, but this plus Ampache for streaming music works for me.

[pk_fox]

You can't mount a Linux filesystem from another computer, you mount a network filesystem. First you need to export the filesystem on the Pi with wither NFS or CIFS (Samba). Then you use something like Mount Manager or CIFS Manager to mount that on the Android device.

Alternatively, you can use ES File Explorer to access remote folders over IFS, SFTP (SSH) or WebDAV. It really depends on what you want to do, but this plus Ampache for streaming music works for me.

Hi Nelz, thanks for that, how do I export the Pis' folders as CIFS shares?

[Nuke]

You can't mount a Linux filesystem from another computer, you mount a network filesystem. First you need to export the filesystem on the Pi with wither NFS or CIFS (Samba). Then you use something like Mount Manager or CIFS Manager to mount that on the Android device.

Perhaps it is just terminology, but I take pk_fox to mean "mount a file system on another computer", and yes in that case you mount it as a network file system (as opposed to a ext4 or reiser or jfs file system).

I have no experience of Samba or Android, but I was advised that setting up nfs is simpler than Samba. I have set up my RPi as an nfs server, and found it does not have the network modules by default (the designers ever envisaged this use), so it needs more than adding an exports file; rpcbind and nfs-kernel-server need to be installed from the repository.

My mount command btw goes :

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mount -t nfs 192.168.1.9:/home/common /home/nuke/RPi_common

... where 192.168.1.9 is my RPi, ...../common is the RPi directory I am mounting, and ...../RPi_common is the mount point on my PC.

[purplepenguin]

Another option for mounting remote file systems is SSHFS. I use it to connect RPi's and other desktops to my media server in my experience it seems faster than NFS and SMB.

I move files between my desktop and Android phone via an FTP server running on the phone. It's easier than setting up MTP on Linux.

If your running an SSH server on the PI use ES File Explorer to connect to it via SFTP.

[pk_fox]

You can't mount a Linux filesystem from another computer, you mount a network filesystem. First you need to export the filesystem on the Pi with wither NFS or CIFS (Samba). Then you use something like Mount Manager or CIFS Manager to mount that on the Android device.

Perhaps it is just terminology, but I take pk_fox to mean "mount a file system on another computer", and yes in that case you mount it as a network file system (as opposed to a ext4 or reiser or jfs file system).

I have no experience of Samba or Android, but I was advised that setting up nfs is simpler than Samba. I have set up my RPi as an nfs server, and found it does not have the network modules by default (the designers ever envisaged this use), so it needs more than adding an exports file; rpcbind and nfs-kernel-server need to be installed from the repository.

My mount command btw goes :

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mount -t nfs 192.168.1.9:/home/common /home/nuke/RPi_common

... where 192.168.1.9 is my RPi, ...../common is the RPi directory I am mounting, and ...../RPi_common is the mount point on my PC.

Hi there, I installed Samba and all is fine, thanks for the response.

[pk_fox]

Another option for mounting remote file systems is SSHFS. I use it to connect RPi's and other desktops to my media server in my experience it seems faster than NFS and SMB.

I move files between my desktop and Android phone via an FTP server running on the phone. It's easier than setting up MTP on Linux.

If your running an SSH server on the PI use ES File Explorer to connect to it via SFTP.

Hi there, I installed Samba and all is fine, thanks for the response. I will certainly look at SSHFS.