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Originally Posted by drjd
Wow! 
The above hints worked!  I used the command 'whoami' on my laptop and found that windows has actually truncated my username to a five letter word like 'xxxxx' while I had set up my Windows 10 with my microsoft email ID as username. (And normally, I use the email IDs successfully to access between three different laptops in the home network.)
So I used the truncated username with the password for mail as a login from ES File Explorer Pro on my phone... and the miracle happened! I was able to access the file system, both shared partitions of HDD on my laptop! 
I followed the same 'whoami' procedure from other laptops and found that the usernames have been truncated there too. Using them, I could access all the laptops from my Android now!
Unfortunately, Solid File Manager (trial ver.) failed to show the network places, but ES File Explorer Pro (paid ver.) is working fine.
Tons of thanks, Blossom, for pointing me in the right direction, and to all the friends who expressed their valuable views. 
PS: Why not vice-versa? Now I have to research the remaining part of the puzzle: If I can see and access the file systems of all my laptops from all the phones connected on the network, why I can not see or access the file systems of a phone from my laptops? ie., my laptops do not discover the android phones in the network. |
Wonderful you got it working! That trunicate issue is very common now since 1709.
My understanding on PC to Android is you must be running a server on your andriod device like ftp. Then you access the device through a browser like any other ftp server. There may be another way I haven't researched it enough. I don't need it as long as my Android can access the computer, the other way around isn't needed. There's always Bluetooth although it's file transfer system isn't as reliable.
Sent from my XT1528