Re: "Open Path" functionality of File Explorer

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First, I can't speak for "Smartphone" but since you may have a "phoneedition"...

The primary problem that most people have with this is that it does not support "browsing shares" ...you have to know and enter the fully qualified name of the computer offering the share... for example

\\my-desktopbox\

Once you connect to that computer, you can then browse to that computer's shares.

In addition, you can copy files to and from network shares using file explorer, but you can't open them directly... for example, tapping a wma file on the network will not play it on your ppc.

Resco Explorer offers more options

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
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