[Q] Shield TV Accessing external storage over ssh ftp sftp

[webdoctors]

I'm trying to access my Shield storage over the network.

I tried using ftp server tools but none of them worked, including es file explorer. They would connect but fail to get me a directory listing. I got ssh sftp server to work, but I can't read any external drives.

I can read the internal Shield drive (the 16 GBs). But I have external drives connected over USB that I want to access. It looks like there is a permission problem. When I change to access the external drives, I can see them in the directory listing but clicking on them and traversing them I get an error. I'd probably have to set it up so the ssh user has root access, but than I'd need to root my device.

My local apps like Kodi can see and access the external drive, its only my sftp server user that cannot.

Is there a simple way to access external storage remotely?

 

[envidia]

I have the same issue. Did you finally find a solution?

Thanks.

 

[dvallejo]

Sam question here, anyone find a solution to this? Thanks!

 

[webdoctors]

I'm guessing either Google needs to fix this in their next release, or we'd have to root the box so we can set the permissions for the ftp server to an elevated level.

 

[snoopac19]

Hi all. Looks like I'm 3+ years late to this conversation . Not sure if I should have created a new thread instead?

But I got a shield recently, and I have a similar (not same) issue. I *can* access the external drive with sftp (using installed ssh server that I can't find in google play store any more).
However, access to the drive is read-only. I can't upload anything, or delete anything, etc. Through that sftp, I have full access to the internal 16gb drive.

Initially, ES File Explorer also couldnt write to the external drive either. I was able to 'unlock' it to make it work, using these instructions:
https://forums.geforce.com/default/...-es-explorer-fail-error/post/4782494/#4782494

Anyone know how to make that same popup to unlock the ssh server's write access to the drive? Or to unlock write permission to the drive in general, system-wide?

I'm not rooted or anything by the way.

I suppose, alternatively, I can turn on some FTP server capabilities within ES on the shield?