I couldn't get Solid Explorer to connect to the drive plugged into my Asus router. I finally discovered that clicking on "YES" for advanced on the 2nd to last setup screen offered the choice of smb1 or smb2. It had been on smb2. Switched to smb1 and it connected instantly. Yay!

The solution that works. Tested on two different phones.
1) Open Solid Explorer,
2) make sure you have internal storage on both panels(Left and right panel).
3) Reboot the phone
4) open Solid Explorer, and navigate to your SMB.

Should open without a problem.

There is a bug that causes this issue when you used a different cloud connection and then switch to SMB. Some buffer or cache was not cleared. Developer please fix.
To reproduce this issue have a cloud connection (Dav) open on the right panel. Then try to setup a new SMB connection OR connect to an existing one, it should fail.

Is this ever going to get fixed. This was working fine for the last year or two, but now stopped working with the "problem occurred on network communication" error. A different phone with the same version of Solid Explorer works fine, as does CX File Explorer.

Bit annoying when I paid for this

I know this is old, but I found it on 11/4/20 so maybe someone else will. I ended up looking at the IP when I hit browse for the computer I wanted and then entered that instead. It worked.

I had the same issue, so first I tried all combinations with SMB// etc (like Greg on the 18. August 20) without success. By the way: in German I can edit the connections via ... > Speicher-Manager

Then I deleted the SMB connection and tried again from scratch ("+" > Neue Cloud Verbindung > LAN/SMB).
But this time I let Solid E. search the network for my PC and this took a while but found it.
I selected this connection in "Server-Details" put User and Password and now it works :)

This looks like a bug in Solid E. in that SMB-feature for me. Please fix :)

Hi can anyone please help me? I have the paid version of the fx file explorer the file Manager with privacy. on my Nvidia shield tv pro 2019 my Computer windows 10 is on the same network my Internet connection is great Whenever I try to open fx connect. I get no Internet connection can anyone please tell me how to fix it? Thank you very much

I have the same problem. I use private network profile on Window 10, with access for files without password. Connection between 2 Win10 computer - worka! Between Linux and Windows - works! Between Windows and Soli? No way!

I'm trying switching between smb1 and smb2, adding SMB//, smb//, SMB:// and smb:// prefixes to host name and even loging by using username and password from Windows profile (not necessary on linux or other Windows) - nothing changes.

I have that problem too, and add it that works for me too.

Adding SMB//[SERVERNAME] worked for me! Thanks guys for this suggestion!

As Hansmiller mentioned below, adding SMB// before the hostname/address works for me (eg. SMB//192.168.1.1 or SMB//SERVERNAME)

I've a tab s2 android and tried for hours to connect to my w10 machine with all updates installed. Gave up. Two days later it just works. FM.

I managed to find a solution to this.
All you need to do is to set the network profile as "Private" and then it works from solid explorer without issues.

It works for me after maybe 12 hours of trial and error over a 3-day period.

Remote host name: Enter your IP address as is. (do ipconfig and find IPv4 Address)
Port Number: 445 (I only knew this from one of the other websites. I figured it should have been the listening port for my IP, but nope)
Path: Blank
Display Name: Computer Name (shown as name when doing nslookup on your IP address)
Username and password authentication selected
Username as shown in the path in CMD after the /
Password was tricky, because it's not my Windows password which uses a 4-digit pin. It also is not my gmail address associated with the account. It was a third password that I often use elsewhere; I may have gotten lucky on this try. One thing to note is that I did use this password to create my LAN (different from my wifi password, so maybe that's what it used???)
SMB2 selected

Hi I’m new to this what it is I’ve got a android box and 4K FireStick I’m trying to transfer files between the two devices I’ve got solid explorer on both devices I’ve noticed Dropbox and mediafire work but google drive does not want to no I’ve tried FTP and LAN / SMB but I’m not really sure on how to set it up I know you have to put your IP address in but that’s about it could someone explain how to transfer files from my android box to my Firestick I was using es file explorer but nothing works on it cloud doesn’t work comes up with a error message on screen

I also had a network communication error result when trying to connect to a Seagate-419D4A NAS drive when using the default SMB2 setting.
I was able to connect using SMB1 (see option under Advanced in setup sequence).

Thanks for the help.

For me it works. You just need to create new user in Windows 10 and use it via Solid Explorer. It's Windows 10 which fucked Guest users via SMB2.

I don't know how exactly it is in English, but you need to right click on start menu > computer management >users and workgroups > users > right click anywhere in right panel > new user > edit username and password as you like and also check user can't change password and password never expire.

In Solid Explorer login via this username and password. Voila.

I'm getting the same issue on the latest version of Solid Explorer - Connecting to a Synology DS218J over SMB 2.

This issue does not occur using other file managers (FX, X-Plorer and ES File Explorer Pro)

Are there any plans to get this issue fixed? - It's a shame, as in terms of the interface and functionality this has the potential to be the best file manager for Android now that ES has gone.

Many thanks

UPDATE!

The previous message can be amended with this...after writing it, I tried the SMBv1 and that worked straight away....I do have an old version of windows and I guess what is new is that Solid now supports a later version by *default* and can't infer the OS (to select a desired protocol) that's understandable but any coder would write a simple bit of code to allow all the versions to be tried IF the default version fails.

Get it done guys.

Just installed it on my new phone and it is failing to connect to my fileshares that the previous version worked fine on. After i finally found how to edit the autoscanned setting adding "SMB//" before the server name DOES NOT WORK..Why can't they just leave well enough alone? I paid for this app precisely because it allowed remote connections to my file shares now my money is wasted??Just installed it on my new phone and it is failing to connect to my fileshares that the previous version worked fine on. After i finally found how to edit the autoscanned setting adding "SMB//" before the server name DOES NOT WORK..Why can't they just leave well enough alone? I paid for this app precisely because it allowed remote connections to my file shares now my money is wasted??Just installed it on my new phone and it is failing to connect to my fileshares that the previous version worked fine on. After i finally found how to edit the autoscanned setting adding "SMB//" before the server name DOES NOT WORK..Why can't they just leave well enough alone? I paid for this app precisely because it allowed remote connections to my file shares now my money is wasted??

If someone is still having trouble connecting, simply enter the

SMB//

command before the address of the server you want to connect to.

Having the same problem. My Windows 10 PC has SMBv1 enabled. I can access it over wi-fi with my windows 7 laptop. I used to be able to access the W10 PC with my Android phone using Solid Explorer, but recently that feature has stopped. Switching back and forth between SMB1 and SMB2 does not fix the problem. I suspect something got broken with a recent Solid Explorer update.