Getting Mount Manager working with Android 4.2

This post May Not apply to you but I hope it helps.

I have had some people that have reported issues connecting to a share with Mount Manager on a 4.2 device.

First, make sure you have the required modules for your kernel. This post will be using CyanogenMod 10.1 as the reference, but your ROM may differ and YMMV.

In CM10.1 you have to load 3 modules to get cifs to work correctly. cifs.ko depends upon dns_resolver and md4 modules. They have to be loaded before cifs.ko.

Once you have these modules loaded you should be able to mount your shares. If you are still having issues try looking at this post on XDA. It seems there is an issue with some builds of busybox that it needs the unc option added to the connection.

You can add a new option when creating a mount point and select custom. Then enter “unc” as the name. For the value you will enter the same path that you use for the network share, except you have to use “\” instead of “/”. And you have to escape them. So you need to use 2 of them for every one you enter.

Windows 7 and CIFS Out Of Memory Error

I have had a few users contact me about getting errors when mounting a share from Windows 7 with Mount Manager. This error was some type of “out of memory” error.

When you try to mount you see the following error:

mount error(12): Cannot allocate memory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

The error reports the following in Event Viewer:

Source: srv
Event ID: 2017
Level: Error
The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the server reached the configured limit for nonpaged pool allocations.

One user, after much research, found the solution. According to an article he found, you need to tell windows that it will be used as a file server and that it should allocate the memory that it needs to do so.

To do this, you have to set the following value in the registry to ‘1’.

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\LargeSystemCache

Also you have to set the following value in the registry to ‘3’.

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\Size

Mount Manager License 3 Day “Black Friday” Sale!

Following the strange times that all the stores seem to be having this Black Friday, I am having my own “Black Friday” sale on the license for Mount Manager. If you buy the license for Mount Manager between now and 11:59PM CST on Friday 11/25/2011, you will save $1.00 on the cost of the license.

If you do not yet see the lower price, try again later, the market has to push the changes out before it takes affect.

Purchase License from the Android Market

New version of Mount Manager available

I published a new version of Mount Manager last night that addresses some issues along with adding new functionality.

• Fixed bug when mounting / unmounting a share that contains a “space”
• Fixed bug when mounting / unmounting when mount point contains a “space”
• Fixed bug if the share path or mount point contains a trailing slash
• Changed the default mount point “base” to /sdcard/cifs/ instead of /mnt/cifs/. This eliminates the need to remount / as read/write. If you have mounts already defined to /mnt/cifs/, I suggest that you move them to /sdcard/cifs/ otherwise you will get errors when mounting and you will manually have to remount / as read/write.
• Added a built-in file/folder browser used for selecting the mount point or browsing for module files to load.
• Added ability to browse for network shares. Some machines are not browsable, depending on how the shares are set up. In these cases, you will just have to manually enter the share path.
• Updated the admob library to the latest version.

Mount Manager License

The $2.99 price for Mount Manager License was originally just a discounted price for the first 100 sales. I have decided to extend this sale price indefinitely. This price seems very far, and a good price point. So the permanent price of Mount Manager License is $2.99.

I would like to thank everyone that has reported any issues in Mount Manager and helped make it a better product. You are the reason that the product is keeping this discounted price.

Mount Manager + Locale / Tasker

The latest version, just published on the Android Market contains a new feature for licensed users. You can now use Locale / Tasker to automate the mounting or unmounting of your shares.

By setting up your conditions, like using the Wifi Connection plug-in, you can set shares to mount when you are connected to a specific wifi network, or unmount others.

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The license is currently available for $2.99 for the first 100 sold. After that, the regular price of the license is $4.99.

Mount Manager License on Sale

The Mount Manager License that removes the advertisements from the application, plus will enable the Locale/Tasker plug-in once completed, is now on sale in the android market.

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The price of the license is $4.99, but for the first 100 people that purchase the license it is available at a discounted price of $2.99. The license will guarantee that you have access to all the features in Mount Manager.

The application is fully functional as it is, but the license will enable other features, plus remove the ads.

Mount Manager Now Available

I just released the first version of Mount Manager. A tool to manage mount points on your android device. Mainly geared towards CIFS, but I will be expanding to other file system types in the future. The application is available for free on the android market. There will be a license in the near future that will remove ads and possibly enable additional features.

 

You can easily add/edit your cifs mounts and see the amount of space used/free on the share.

   

Some devices do not come with support for CIFS out of the box, so in order to account for that, the application has the ability to load modules in order to add the file system support.

 

These modules can be added and removed from the interface as well.