Solid Explorer did it I think. I believe there is also a plug-in for Total Commander.
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
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Solid explorer is great. One of the few apps I bought.
Extra vote for solid explorer, but the browsing that was mentioned I want to say is partially a server side thing. If the desktops can see them than others should be able to as well, but the server has to respond to those broadcast requests looking for shares.
For my time on mobile though, putting some sort of frontend over the files makes life a lot more pleasant. Sure you can play a video or open a picture through mount, but only from the right network, and sacrificing a lot of custom built functionality like a dedicated media player would offer over accessing the raw files. That's more a my use case thing though, preffering to do the more heavy file management stuff from a full size computer than mobile.
I use MiX, which has a "Search local" option when adding SMB, which sounds like what you're after
Mix is my replacement for ES File Explorer. I still use an old version of EX, but Mix has some great features.
Big fan of Solid Explorer - handles all manner of file and cloud servers.
Doesn't have smb..
Nah, it totally supports it - I use it daily on a couple of Linux NASes with SMB shares configured.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=solid%20explorer&c=apps
I haven't tested it, but Solid Explorer seems to support this.
I was wrong. Thanks for showing it to me. Now I can uninstalled cx and use finally only one file explorer which has dark mode.
Cx File Explorer supports SMB, FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV remotes out of the box. There is an option to browse the local network.
I like CX File Explorer too. And I appreciate that there are no ads! I wish the dev would make dark mode available though.
Material Files?
I use this one, pretty solid.
ghost commander is a foss option that works with smb out of the box
Don't know what phone you have, but the built in My Files app on my Galaxy s23 has SMB support. Lists and connects to my Linux samba server and my Windows shares perfectly.
I use CIFS Document Provider and the stock files app lets me browse the share without an exact path. Does require IP tho
Every few years, the landscape of good file explorers on Play Store shuffles up. Currently, CX seems to be the way to go.