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Asked: 2026-05-27T20:23:31+00:00

I’m writing my first Android app, which is more or less going to be

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I’m writing my first Android app, which is more or less going to be a mount point manager. Local mounts and NFS mounts have been easy, but I’m not sure of how to go about CIFS shares.

Ideally, after selecting a host, a list of CIFS shares would be displayed. At the bare minimum, I should be able to enter a CIFS URI/share string and mount it (eg: //192.168.1.100/mount_point). I’m thinking of EStrongs, where you can select a host, and it will display shares, which you can then further explore.

I’ve seen jCIFS (I think this is what Astro uses), and I’ve seen mention of the cifs.ko module on xda-developers. Are there any other standard approaches? Any tips/recommendations on how to go about using jCIFS or cifs.ko and doing this in general? I would prefer not to have to gain root access.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Fellow Androider here, I’ve looked into various protocols in the past and this is what I found:

    If it has to be CIFS then I would recommend jCIFS. Astro does use it, as you mentioned and EStrongs does as well. And…so does AndSMB by lysesoft. So, I’m pretty sure that’s the ‘go to’ standard approach.

    If you are looking into only supporting SMB, you may be interested in this as an alternative:
    http://java-source.net/open-source/network-clients/jftp

    Also, for other protocols, this is a great list to peruse:
    http://java-source.net/open-source/network-clients

    Hope that helps.

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