LAN plugin for Total Commander
Do NOT install if you do not use Total Commander!
Note: Connecting to Windows 10 has changed with a recent Windows update: You cannot use "[email protected]" as login name any more. Instead, please do the following:1. Go to c:\users2. Check the name of your private folder. It's usually your first name or "admin" or so3. Use this name and your password for the plugin
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Reviews (29)
Once you understand the operational paradigm of Total Commander, which is a bit different than other apps, it works fantastic and efficiently. I could wish for SAMBA host browsing, rather than having to type in the full and correct connection details, but it works, and always does once you set it up, never problems. Thank you for a great program!
Worked perfectly connecting to my Windows computer where several other apps would not. Also works on my old Android 4 tablet.
Total Commander does not behave nicely on Chromebooks and any files selected will frequently hang when control is passed along to the next program.
Thank you! This plugin makes it simple to access LAN PC shares from mobile phone. Browse LAN shares. File copy over WiFi between phone and PCs. File transfers are at WiFi network speed. My Wireless AC 5GHz network . This app uses SMB 2 protocol which is much more secure than apps using SMB 1. I have tried many apps to allow phone to connect to LAN PCs using SMB 2 or 3/ Previous apps had major limitations. This app allows my phone to connect to network devices as easily as I can connect two computers.
The only decent samba client I could find. Another review says it does not work on Android Pie, but it does for me. Feedback: (if possible) it would be awesome if the plug-in optionally also mounted samba shares at a custom file system path to be accessed from other apps when TC is running in background. It is not really the job of a plug-in, I know, but as mentioned I can not find another implementation that works well (with samba v2).
It simply works. I am not a computer professional so It took me a bit of trial and error to learn how to properly set up a windows share and connect to it with proper user name and password. Once I got it I put a shortcut on my phone! Now its a one button push to browse my computer hard drive. Well done C.G. There are support forums for Total Commander (and his plug ins) if your having issues.
This works perfectly for reading and cutting. However, for writing or pasting, it does not appear at all. All of the bookmarks that use the LAN are shown for cutting but disappear for pasting. Is there something I'm missing?
Worked like a charm, but now it is usless. Server properties dialog dissapired for a some time! There is option in menu, but after tap nothing happenes. I can connect to previusly created servers, I can create new server, but properties dialog just can not be opened. IP address of a server can not be write down. Fix it please!
I can't edit servers since moving to Android 9. Can creat them, but when clicking properties, no menu opens. Means you can't type in a username & password. I love Total Commander and this plugin, but have had to switch to CX File Explorer for now!
latest version no longer works with windows 10, i'm not sure what changed, but it wasn't on my end. i had a pretty basic local user setup that didn't have any issues until this latest update.
Worked nice on Nougat. On Android Pie on Honor 8x, after few seconds of connection, gives error and have to reconnect to copy some more files. Settings are correct and fiddling with them don't help at all. Please fix this problem.
Total Commander as a whole has really changed my Android life. It works flawlessly with my SMB and NFC shares. The plug-ins, especially this one, are well made and easy to navigate. Good stuff right here.
I have Total Commander installed. When i installed the Lan plugin, it does not appear anywhere. That makes it difficult to use. I tried reinstalled but it was already installed. I figured out what happened. I was on my tablet but it installed the app on my phone. From my phone, using share, i send the link to mt tablet. Using that, i installed on my tablet.
Great file manager. Is there any chance we can get SMB3+ support with encryption? (SMB3_11)
There is this odd bug when the master password is passed using a biometric scan. So the biometric card like area slides up but the actual fingerprint area indicator or the activation off it misses. This happens 1/3 of the time.
My smb server is on my local network. I connect to it via a VPN tunnel. The app refuses to use my data connection and insists I turn on WLAN. SMB3 support would is also amiss.
As always, useful plugin to an essential app. I just wished server entries would could be exported/imported from one device to another.
the best, most versatile file manager software available for android. The plugins are an awesome idea, and work well. One of ,y absolutely must have apps
Not compatible with Andrioid on Redmi devices (because Xiaomi modified original android on their devices). On original Android 5, 8, 9 works fine - tested on Samsung and Nokia devices.
It has been good to use this over the years, but it needs to support SMB v2/v3. Makes it hard to use the plugin without supporting those standards.
Works fine with windows 10. The only one I found with samba 2.0 support that connects every time with my PC.
It works but it's extremely slow (less than 100 kbps). It's impossible to stream video with it.
Fixed, thanks dev! ORIGINAL REVIEW: Can't edit servers nor add new ones. Properties doesn't open up and I can't do anything beside adding a share name.
Does not work. Attempts to connect to a Linux samba server fail and the server shows malformed SMB2 packets in its error log. Looks like a bug in the client code.
Very useful add-on for the excellent Total Commander. Enabled me to interrogate remote LAN files. Thanks.
Can I donate or encourage developing this totalcmd for newer versions of android? I really really miss this plugin, that's the only decent file transfer client over ssh. And it does not work on newer versions of android :(
Can no longer recommend this for Linux Samba servers. Get "Bad SMB2 signature for message". Devs don't seem interested in fixing this so I guess it is time to find another solution.
Norton Commander-like interface, Dos-like file structure. Powerful network tool Features as well.
It would be a perfect 5 Star BUT all of a sudden I cannot rename files on the LAN. I can creat delete move them but not rename them! Multi tool rename does not work either. Is this a known Bug?