How do I setup an FTP on my Android device? ***SOLVED****

[rudeguy]

Plain and simple please. I suck at networking.

I want to be able to access the files on my PC from anywhere. Phonemypc looks like an option but it shouldn't be that hard to just setup and FTP, right?


Please help.


Got it!

HomePipe is exactly what I was looking for. It lets me browse everything from my phone and is not a resource hog.

 

[pm]

I'm confused. You want to access the files on your PC from Android using FTP? So you will install an FTP server on your PC and then an FTP client on your phone?

You can do that, and it will be free, but you'll need to poke holes in your router firewall and it would probably not be my personal method just because it's annoying to set up and can create security issues.

I'd recommend Hamachi instead - less painful. Not sure if it's free for Android or not though. The Android app is in the marketplace under "logmein". The PC version is here: https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi2/

This is how I accessed the files on my home computer while I was travelling. Worked fine. I used the free (non-commercial) version.

If you really want to do it with FTP, then a decent FTP client for a PC is TinyFTP http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyftp/
You'll need to go into your router and then forward the FTP ports (usually 20 and 21) to the PC... then on the Android side, install http://www.androidtapp.com/andftp/

 

[rudeguy]

Oh God...not Logmein.

I'm going to drop the $10 and try phonemypc. I obviously don't know enough to do this on my own.

For me...sometimes winning is admitting that I've lost

 

[dougp]

You could use SFTP perhaps. If you're looking to remote into your PC, there's tons of free RDS apps on the Market you can use, and would be a matter of setting it up on your firewall.

 

[akugami]

I use VNC from my iPhone to access my computer at home. I'm not sure if there is a free VNC client on Android. It's actually relatively painless setting up UltraVNC on my computer (Win7 x64) and using Mocha VNC to access my computer from the iPhone. Dunno why one would want to set up an FTP server on their home computer though.

Alternatively maybe GoogleDocs will work for you?

 

[rudeguy]

maybe I worded it wrong.

I want to be able to access the files on my home PC from my phone.

How do I do this?

 

[JD50]

Are you running Linux or windows at home?

With Linux it's easy, just set up an ssh server and forward port 22 from your router to your pc. Then you can use sftp.

With windows I have no idea, sorry.

 

[pm]

Oh God...not Logmein.

I'm going to drop the $10 and try phonemypc. I obviously don't know enough to do this on my own.

For me...sometimes winning is admitting that I've lost

What's wrong with Hamachi? Works fine for me.

 

[rudeguy]

What's wrong with Hamachi? Works fine for me.

I just had a bad experience with Logmein. Maybe you are talking about something different?

 

[Chapbass]

What happened with logmein? Its a great program, been using various versions of it (free, pro, hamachi, rescue, rescue+mobile) for years.

 

[rudeguy]

What happened with logmein? Its a great program, been using various versions of it (free, pro, hamachi, rescue, rescue+mobile) for years.

It bogged my system down too much. That and they spammed me daily until I finally blocked their email address.

 

[zoiks]

ES File Explorer is a free app that you can use to ftp into a your remote machine to download stuff.

 

[JD50]

Why the need for some convoluted, expensive software when ssh will work just fine?

 

[rudeguy]

Why the need for some convoluted, expensive software when ssh will work just fine?

teach me!

 

[JD50]

teach me!

Are you running Linux or windows at home?

With Linux it's easy, just set up an ssh server and forward port 22 from your router to your pc. Then you can use sftp.

With windows I have no idea, sorry.

Already done!

 

[rudeguy]

HomePipe is exactly what I was looking for. No stupid remote options, just file browsing.

 

[you2]

Well i haven't tested it but apparently ms is installing openssh on windows 10 so you can run openssh if you want the server side on windows. Personally I use linux so ....

If your system is windows there are various clients (for the phone) that supports samba. While samba is awful with regards to security you can access the files that way if you export them (on windows). I believe VLC supports this but I use some android app andftp and andsmb - I used to use ftp for something on the phone can't remember what - i think it was a different lifetime when I had to move roms. Anyway andsmb seems to work fine. for linux I would use sftp myself these days.