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I have over 100GBs of audio and video files on my PC that I would like to access at anytime. Whether it's around the house or on the go. 9 out of 10 places I'm usually at have highspeed wifi connections so I'm not too concerned about streaming over the 3G network; although it would be nice.

Basically, I want to set my PC up as a private media/file server that I can access from my rooted Droid X 2.2.....cheaply, free if possible.

I'm actually surprised that this device doesn't have streaming capabilities over local wifi networks. I can transfer files over from my home network and then play them but that requires a lot of wait time and uses a lot of space on the phone.

I know how to configure ftp and http servers with DNS if that helps. http would take a long time to code and can't be updated quickly so I'm hoping it can be done with an ftp server.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.

Susan

VLC appears to have a FTP access module, did you try ftp://username:password@youripaddresshere.net/ in the Open MRL?

I want to do something similar

Strangely enough if I use the link with the username and password it works.
but I want to browse a complex folder structure and every folder i tap on askes for user and password and at the point if I enter the login infos it doesn't continue

any help ?

Use 2.1.16