The above action will open the “Network Location Wizard.” Here, click on the “Next” button to continue. In the “Map Network Drive” window, click on the link “Connect to a Web site…” On Windows open the File Explorer and select the option “Map Network Drive” from the “Computer” tab. Also, ES Explorer displays the FTP address that we will be needing. Now, head over to the main screen, and tap on the “Turn On” button. Once you are done, this is what it looks like in the Remote Manager settings screen. If you want to access both internal and external storage, then select “/.” In my case, I’m selecting my external SD card as my root directory.

Make sure that the port number is between 1025 – 65534.Īlso, if you want to change the root directory, tap on the option “Set root directory” and select your default root directory. If you want to you can also change the “Current Port” so that it is easy to remember when adding it to other systems. To do that, tap on the option “Set Manage Account,” enter the username and password and touch the “OK” button to continue. I would recommend you add a username and password so that other users on LAN cannot access it without authorization. As you can see from the below image, ES Explorer already set the default port and the current user to “Anonymous.”

The above action will open the Remote Manager settings window. Just tap on the Settings icon to continue. Once the Remote Manager window has been opened, we need to configure it. Launch it, swipe from the left side of the screen and then select the option “Remote Manager” from the main menu.

To start off, install ES File Explorer if you haven’t already. To access Android files and folders on Windows PC over WiFi, we are going to use the popular file manager ES File Explorer.

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