LAN plugin can't connect to Windows 8 share

[terryhau]

It connects fine to Windows 7 shares.
When I try on my Windows 8 share, it just gets stuck on the connecting screen. The user account is linked to a Microsoft account, which means the user name is in the form of an email address. Not sure if that is causing the problem.

Thanks.

[JohnFredC]

Same problem here. If I wait for about 10 minutes the drive list does appear, but entering a drive displays the "busy" throbber and no further response occurs.

Other Android tools I use (ES File Explorer, X-Plore) connect blink-of-an-eye instantly.

My sign-on is also an email address.

Win8/64 <-> Android 4.1.2

[ghisler(Author)]

Hmm, no idea - I couldn't find any Windows 8 specific reports concerning JCIFS (the library used by TC for LAN access). Does it work with a local (non-e-mail) account? The '@' sign in the user name might be a problem.

[terryhau]

Just tried a local account and it connects instantly, so it is something to do with the Microsoft account.

I use an app called FolderSync which also uses JCIFS and it connects using Microsoft account just fine. I believe ES File Explorer also uses JCIFS and that works too.

I've discovered a workaround though.
It seems like Microsoft accounts also have a 'local' name which is your first name. You can see this if you go to your users folder (eg. C:\Users\John). You can actually log in with your just first name ('John' in this case), rather than with your email address, and it works in Total Commander.

[ghisler(Author)]

I just checked the sources - there is currently no special treatment of the @ sign in my code. The only special treatment is for domain names, but that's specified in the server field, not the name field. Maybe I just need to use a newer version of JCIFS...

[ghisler(Author)]

This is a bug/misfeature in the JCIFS library: It treats a user name in the form of a mail address (user@server) as a combination of user and domain: user@domain.

Please try the following test version of the plugin, which should fix this:
https://plugins.ghisler.com/aplg/tcandroidlan204b1.apk

The following change was necessary in JCIFS to make e-mail addresses work as user names:

Code: Select all

In smb\NtlmPasswordAuthentication.java:
In function:
public NtlmPasswordAuthentication( String domain, String username, String password ) {
look for:
            ci = username.indexOf('@');
            if (ci > 0) {
replace by:
            ci = username.indexOf('@');
            int ci2 = username.lastIndexOf('.');
            if (ci > 0 && ci2<ci) {   // Windows 8: e-mail address as user name

[terryhau]

Thanks for the fix. It's working now.