#92 Can't connect to SMB: "invalid path"

[Michael Gauland]

When I try to connect to my local file server on SMB from my Samsung Galaxy Tab A tablet, running LineageOS 18, I get an "invalid path" error. The same settings work fine on my OnePlus 3T phone (running LineageOS 19).

[zc2]

could you please post a logcat?

[Michael Gauland]

Sure. Looks like the trouble starts at 21:00:19.073, when it can't find "com.ghostsq.commander.smb.smb".

[zc2]

Thank you for the logcat. Not sure what's going on. I tried on my phone with LineageOS18.1, all plugins are loaded with not problem. Could you please try to uninstall both the app and the plugins, clean up your system may be, then try to install again? Is your Lineage OS version latest? Did you try to update it? BTW, I don't see "Galaxy Tab A" in the list of LineageOS supported device.

[Michael Gauland]

Thanks for looking into it. I'm running an unofficial release. I upgraded to the latest available, but that didn't make a difference; nor did re-installing the app and plugin. I've been installing from Fdroid. When I tried installing from the App store I got an error: "Conflicting package exists". Would it make a difference which repo I use?

[zc2]

There's only one thing for sure, you cannot mix apps and plugins from different sources, since the signatures won't match.

[Michael Gauland]

I managed to get it to install from the App store, and it's working now!

[bili]

Same problem here, the F-Droid version doesn't work, the Play version does fine.

The log starts with the installation via F-Droid.

abbendum: sorry, seems as if something gone wrong with the logging ...

[zc2]

Sorry, I do not support the F-Droid version. One thing for sure, version from different sources cannot be mixed on the same device, since the signatures are different.

[Holger Mueller]

Yes that's fine. We can not mix sources from F-Droid and Google Play. But why don't you support the F-Droid version (which seems to be buggy)? Who is maintaining the F-Droid release?

[Holger Mueller]

Same problem here (Google Pixel 6 with latest Android 12). F-Droid Version (1.61b3) fails, Google Play version (1.60.7) works fine.

I tried to debug but I failed to load the sources into Android Studio.
If I try to open the sources using open project I get

Build file '/Users/hmueller/src/AndroidStudioProjects/ghostcommander/ghostcommander-svn/build.gradle' line: 1

A problem occurred evaluating root project 'ghostcommander-svn'.
> Plugin with id 'com.android.application' not found.

Just looking into the code it looks like we end up in FSAdapter.java:

    @Override
    public boolean readSource( Uri uri_, String pass_back_on_done ) {
        try {
            if( uri_ != null )
                setUri( uri_ );
            if( uri == null ) {
                notify( s( R.string.inv_path ) + ": " + ( uri_ == null ? "null" : uri_.toString() ), Commander.OPERATION_FAILED );
                return false;
            }

and uri is null ...

[zc2]

Please put this file (also please rename it first, remove the '.root' suffix) to the folder one level up to the project folder.