If users think about distributing the Internet via Wi-Fi for their Android phone / tablet first of all, 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 to use bluetooth or a USB cable!

In this tutorial, I'll describe how to implement:
1) Connecting a mobile device to the hard drives of a Windows PC;
2) General principles of creating a home local area network (LAN).

Connecting Android device to LAN

So, here's what we need (a typical set):

1. Mobile device (in my case, an Asus Nexus tablet);
2. Android ES File Explorer;
3. The computer to which hard drives we will connect;
4. A router to which a computer and an Android device are connected;

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.

Local network setup

Usually, when connecting through a router, there are no problems, everything happens automatically, dynamic IP addresses for devices are issued. But it is important that all your computers are in the same workgroup. How to do it?

Go to "Control Panel\u003e System", look for the section "Computer name, domain name, workgroup name" and click "Change settings" and again "Change".

In the "Working group" field, write "WORKGROUP". Then click "OK" and restart the PC.

Go to "Control Panel\u003e Network and Internet\u003e Network and Sharing Center" and share the 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)\u003e Services and applications" and start the services:

• Remote Procedure Call (RPC);
• Server;
• DCOM server process launcher;

We try to find our PCs in the EN Explorer, if it fails again, go to the next section.

Configuring IP Addresses

If it is difficult to connect devices in the local network, it is recommended to register the IP addresses of the devices manually. This activity is tedious, but not difficult :)

1. We go to the computer in "Control Panel\u003e Network and Internet\u003e change the view to" Large icons "in the upper right corner\u003e Network and Sharing Center\u003e Change adapter settings.

We choose our connection, my laptop is connected to the router via an Ethernet cable ("Local Area Connection"), so I'm setting it up. The "Wireless connection" can be configured in the same way.

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 "Information" button.

We are interested in the current IP address of the computer and the default gateway. We will need them in the next paragraph. Leave this window open for now.

Probably I will be right if I say that every second owner of a tablet or phone on the Android operating system at least once, but thought about the question - how to make friends with your mobile gadget with a home local network so that you can download video and music from a computer or laptop, and in the opposite throw off pictures and videos taken. Unfortunately, this operating system does not yet have built-in support for the Samba protocol, which runs the network environment in Windows. But as Baron Munchausen used to say: “There are no hopeless situations”! In principle, there is a very simple and quick solution that allows you to connect Android to the Windows local network using the excellent free utility "ES Explorer".
True, here it is necessary to clearly realize that in order to implement the idea, the home LAN must be organized through a WiFi router (or, at least, there must be a wireless access point), through which the phone or tablet will be connected. There is no connector for the cable!

Download the latest version of the program ES File Explorer and install it on your Android device.
After starting the program, you will see the main menu of the program and a list of files on your SD card. If the card is not inserted, the program will display a message that the card is missing. In this case, you can switch to viewing files in the internal memory of the tablet by pressing the large button with the image of a memory card at the top left.
In order to display the network environment, click on the small button with the inscription "PDA", located in the upper left corner of the window and in the menu that appears, select the item "LAN" (local area network). A new blank window will open to display a list of network resources.

To scan the network environment, press the button with the magnifying glass, after which the network scanning will begin.
After scanning is complete, a list of servers (computers) with their network addresses will appear on the screen.
If your computer is not found during the scan, you can add it manually. To do this, go to the menu -\u003e create -\u003e server, and in the window that opens, enter the network address of the computer or folder on it, login, password, server name. If the login and password are not needed, put a tick in front of "anonymously". The server name is optional. If the name was not entered, the address entered in the first field will be displayed in the list of network resources instead.

We press the OK button, and we see how a new server has appeared in the list of network resources, by tapping on it, we will see its folders and disks to which network access is open.
All. Now you have the ability to copy and open files on a remote computer over the local network.
If you cannot access a computer running Windows-7, try in Control Panel -\u003e Network and Sharing Center -\u003e Advanced Sharing Options to check the box next to "Disable password protected sharing". And make sure that the "Enable network discovery" and "Enable file and printer sharing" options are also enabled there.
Also, do not forget in the properties of the drive or folder to which you want to give access over the network, enable sharing and set permissions for users, if this option is available.

Total Commander, as you know, is a classic two-pane manager, and in order to copy a file over the network, we need to open the folder located on the computer on one panel, and the local folder of the tablet on the other, and then simply drag the desired file from one panel to another.

First of all, we need to install the application itself. Total Commander can be downloaded.

After that, you will need to add a plug-in to the program to work in the local network. To do this, click on the item "Add plugins (Download from the site) ..." on the main program window:

Then a window will open with a proposal to go to the plugins download page:

Press the "OK" button, after which the browser will start and the following page will open in it:

We need to select the second item LAN (Windows network) Plugin and tap on the Download + Install link
In the window that opens, select Play Store

The LAN plug-in window will open in the Play Store. Click on the "Install" button
After installing the plug-in, the LAN icon will appear on the main screen of Total Commander (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 it to appear 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 a 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 via your local network over WiFi.

If you cannot access a computer running Windows-7, try in the "Control Panel" -\u003e "Network and Sharing Center" -\u003e "Advanced Sharing Options" to check the box next to "Disable password sharing. protection ".
Also, make sure the "Enable Network Discovery" and "Enable File and Printer Sharing" options are also enabled there.

Also, do not forget in the properties of the drive 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 our smartphone files via a computer without using a USB lanyard?

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 are going to tell you how to access our smartphone files via a computer. This will allow us to quickly send and receive files without using a USB lanyard.

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 enable 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, pictures and other files directly to your smartphone, as well as in the opposite direction. Unlike USB, this connection method is much more stable, faster and does not need extra wires, which is important.

Now let's talk about the application settings, which can be accessed from the menu. 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. The port is almost always selected automatically and you do not need to touch it. Next, you can set the root folder, which will open in the file manager on your PC. To have access to all files and drives at once, I recommend setting the root folder - "the 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 a 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 to touch the file encoding. Well, and the function "create a shortcut" is already clear to everyone: a shortcut is created on the desktop to quickly launch our FTP server.

So we learned about how you can quickly and conveniently transfer files from PC to smartphone / tablet and vice versa. Moreover, without wires and much effort.

Users who have at their disposal modern gadgets - smartphones or tablets, sooner or later the question arises, how to connect Android to home network? After all, sooner or later everyone will want to get access from a mobile to the contents of a local computer. At the same time, it is important not only to familiarize yourself with files, watch videos, photos and listen to music, but also two-way copying of files. It is also important to be able to open and copy files.

What is required to connect Android to the network

To connect Android to a local network, it is required to have:
- Wi-Fi router to which the device must be connected;
- computer with Windows system;
- configured access to the Internet 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 cellular 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 a whole disk). For this you need:

By entering an account, create a new mobile username: go to the "Start" menu, select the "Settings" item, and then - "Control Panel" and click on the "User accounts" item, add a new record, specifying the boundaries of the rights of the created user;
- go to the "Access" tab;
- select the item "Shared 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, having chosen its name correctly, and carefully enter the password; in this case, you can select the option "show password characters", in order to avoid mistakes when entering it.

The network name and password can be written in for easy reference when needed.

To search for the desired network, you can use the Scan button, after which the search will be performed automatically; when the 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 to which access is allowed, and will be able to perform the necessary actions with them.

If you have an Android tablet and actively use it in everyday life, then most likely you had the idea to connect it to your home network, as is done between computers, so that you can go to the carriers of a laptop or desktop computer and work with files directly from there, multimedia content without first downloading them to the tablet via a USB-cable or flash drive. It's good that there is such an opportunity and setting up such a connection is not difficult: below we will show you how to connect Android to your home Wi-Fi network.

Presetting

Before connecting Android to your home Wi-Fi network, you need to do a little setup on the computers you want to access from your tablet. This procedure is not mandatory, but nevertheless, to fully guarantee the performance of this method, we recommend doing it.

Create a new user

The recommendation is that a user password must be set on your computer so that you can log into your PC from an Android device. If the password is not set for the account, then there are several ways to solve this problem:

1. Install it on your account, and then you will need to enter it every time you turn on the PC.
2. Create a new account with a password, grant it rights and leave it (you can forget about it), continuing to use your existing one without a password.

This is done because when you log in from Android, you will need to fill in the required field with a password, and if it is not there, then in some cases it may not be possible to log into a PC.

We will create a new user in our example. This is done as follows:

Sharing files

If you have used a network between computers before, then you have probably already shared access to the necessary folders or drives. If not, then we'll show you how to do it. You can share not only folders, but entire disks - you choose.

• Right-click on the folder or drive that you want to share with other devices.

• Next, open the "Access" tab.

• Check the box next to "Share ...".
• Click on the "Permissions" button.

• If you are using a computer on your home network, you can leave the user type "All" and just check the "Allow" boxes below the necessary operations on your files. If you often use a PC in public networks, then click "Add", select the account you just created and give it the "Allow" rights opposite "Full access".

We go to the network via Android

Download and install the ES File Explorer app on your tablet or smartphone. Then follow these steps to connect:

• Launch File Explorer.
• Swipe right.
• Tap on the "Network" item.

• Then go to the line "Lan".

• In an empty window, create a new connection.

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 back using a flash drive or memory card, or you dream of watching movies and listening to music from your PC via WiFi, these two ways will help you using well-known programs from the Google Play Store.

The LAN plug-in window will open in the Play Store. Click on the "Install" button
After installing the plug-in, the LAN icon will appear on the main screen of Total Commander (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 it to appear 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 a 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 via your local network over WiFi.

If you cannot access a computer running Windows-7, try in the "Control Panel" -\u003e "Network and Sharing Center" -\u003e "Advanced Sharing Options" to check the box next to "Disable password sharing. protection ".
Also, make sure the "Enable Network Discovery" and "Enable File and Printer Sharing" options are also enabled there.

Also, do not forget in the properties of the drive 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 our smartphone files via a computer without using a USB lanyard?

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 are going to tell you how to access our smartphone files via a computer. This will allow us to quickly send and receive files without using a USB lanyard.

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 enable 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, pictures and other files directly to your smartphone, as well as in the opposite direction. Unlike USB, this connection method is much more stable, faster and does not need extra wires, which is important.

Now let's talk about the application settings, which can be accessed from the menu. 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. The port is almost always selected automatically and you do not need to touch it. Next, you can set the root folder, which will open in the file manager on your PC. To have access to all files and drives at once, I recommend setting the root folder - "the 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 a 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 to touch the file encoding. Well, and the function "create a shortcut" is already clear to everyone: a shortcut is created on the desktop to quickly launch our FTP server.

So we learned about how you can quickly and conveniently transfer files from PC to smartphone / tablet and vice versa. Moreover, without wires and much effort.

Users who have at their disposal modern gadgets - smartphones or tablets, sooner or later the question arises, how to connect Android to home network? After all, sooner or later everyone will want to get access from a mobile to the contents of a local computer. At the same time, it is important not only to familiarize yourself with files, watch videos, photos and listen to music, but also two-way copying of files. It is also important to be able to open and copy files.

What is required to connect Android to the network

To connect Android to a local network, it is required to have:
- Wi-Fi router to which the device must be connected;
- computer with Windows system;
- configured access to the Internet 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 cellular 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 a whole disk). For this you need:

By entering an account, create a new mobile username: go to the "Start" menu, select the "Settings" item, and then - "Control Panel" and click on the "User accounts" item, add a new record, specifying the boundaries of the rights of the created user;
- go to the "Access" tab;
- select the item "Shared 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, having chosen its name correctly, and carefully enter the password; in this case, you can select the option "show password characters", in order to avoid mistakes when entering it.

The network name and password can be written in for easy reference when needed.

To search for the desired network, you can use the Scan button, after which the search will be performed automatically; when the 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 to which access is allowed, 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 first of all, 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 to use bluetooth or a USB cable!

In this tutorial, I'll describe how to implement:
1) Connecting a mobile device to the hard drives of a Windows PC;
2) General principles of creating a home local area network (LAN).

Connecting Android device to LAN

So, here's what we need (a typical set):

1. Mobile device (in my case, an Asus Nexus tablet);
2. Android ES File Explorer;
3. The computer to which hard drives we will connect;
4. A router to which a computer and an Android device are connected;

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.

Local network setup

Usually, when connecting through a router, there are no problems, everything happens automatically, dynamic IP addresses for devices are issued. But it is important that all your computers are in the same workgroup. How to do it?

Go to "Control Panel\u003e System", look for the section "Computer name, domain name, workgroup name" and click "Change settings" and again "Change".

In the "Working group" field, write "WORKGROUP". Then click "OK" and restart the PC.

Go to "Control Panel\u003e Network and Internet\u003e Network and Sharing Center" and share the 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)\u003e Services and applications" and start the services:

• Remote Procedure Call (RPC);
• Server;
• DCOM server process launcher;

We try to find our PCs in the EN Explorer, if it fails again, go to the next section.

Configuring IP Addresses

If it is difficult to connect devices in the local network, it is recommended to register the IP addresses of the devices manually. This activity is tedious, but not difficult :)

1. We go to the computer in "Control Panel\u003e Network and Internet\u003e change the view to" Large icons "in the upper right corner\u003e Network and Sharing Center\u003e Change adapter settings.

We choose our connection, my laptop is connected to the router via an Ethernet cable ("Local Area Connection"), so I'm setting it up. The "Wireless connection" can be configured in the same way.

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 "Information" button.

We are interested in the current IP address of the computer and the default gateway. We will need them in the next paragraph. Leave this window open for now.

Probably I will be right if I say that every second owner of a tablet or phone on the Android operating system at least once, but thought about the question - how to make friends with your mobile gadget with a home local network so that you can download video and music from a computer or laptop, and in the opposite throw off pictures and videos taken. Unfortunately, this operating system does not yet have built-in support for the Samba protocol, which runs the network environment in Windows. But as Baron Munchausen used to say: “There are no hopeless situations”! In principle, there is a very simple and quick solution that allows you to connect Android to the Windows local network using the excellent free utility "ES Explorer".
True, here it is necessary to clearly realize that in order to implement the idea, the home LAN must be organized through a WiFi router (or, at least, there must be a wireless access point), through which the phone or tablet will be connected. There is no connector for the cable!

We find it in the Play Market application "ES Explorer", install and run.
In the main menu of the program, select the "Network" section:

Another submenu will open, in which you need to select the "LAN" section:

Otherwise, start it manually by clicking on the "Scan" button. The program will detect your computer and show it in the list. In fact, it is analogous to Network Neighborhood in Windows.

Click on it. If guest access is configured on the PC, then the login will be automatically made with the Guest rights. Otherwise, you will be prompted for a username and password:

Enter your account name and click OK. And voila - and we connected from Android to Windows via a local network! Here are the computer folders:

As you can see from the screenshot, I connected under the Administrator account and all drives and user folders are available to me. You can create a separate account for mobile devices and open only those directories for it. Good luck!

If users think about distributing the Internet via Wi-Fi for their Android phone / tablet first of all, 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 to use bluetooth or a USB cable!

In this tutorial, I'll describe how to implement:
1) Connecting a mobile device to the hard drives of a Windows PC;
2) General principles of creating a home local area network (LAN).

Connecting Android device to LAN

So, here's what we need (a typical set):

1. Mobile device (in my case, an Asus Nexus tablet);
2. Android ES File Explorer;
3. The computer to which hard drives we will connect;
4. A router to which a computer and an Android device are connected;

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.

Local network setup

Usually, when connecting through a router, there are no problems, everything happens automatically, dynamic IP addresses for devices are issued. But it is important that all your computers are in the same workgroup. How to do it?

Go to "Control Panel\u003e System", look for the section "Computer name, domain name, workgroup name" and click "Change settings" and again "Change".

In the "Working group" field, write "WORKGROUP". Then click "OK" and restart the PC.

Go to "Control Panel\u003e Network and Internet\u003e Network and Sharing Center" and share the 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)\u003e Services and applications" and start the services:

• Remote Procedure Call (RPC);
• Server;
• DCOM server process launcher;

We try to find our PCs in the EN Explorer, if it fails again, go to the next section.

Configuring IP Addresses

If it is difficult to connect devices in the local network, it is recommended to register the IP addresses of the devices manually. This activity is tedious, but not difficult :)

1. We go to the computer in "Control Panel\u003e Network and Internet\u003e change the view to" Large icons "in the upper right corner\u003e Network and Sharing Center\u003e Change adapter settings.

We choose our connection, my laptop is connected to the router via an Ethernet cable ("Local Area Connection"), so I'm setting it up. The "Wireless connection" can be configured in the same way.

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 "Information" button.

We are interested in the current IP address of the computer and the default gateway. We will need them in the next paragraph. Leave this window open for now.

3. Right-click again on "Local Area Connection" (point 2). Select "Properties" from the list. And go to the properties of "Internet Protocol version IP (TCP / IPv4)".

Internet on Android