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Title: Wifi File Transfer To/from Pc
Post by: mimsmall on January 30, 2005, 03:41:55 pm

I did several searches on this subject and nothing satisfactory turned up.

Is there a How-To for setting up a desk top to Zaurus wifi link?

Title: Wifi File Transfer To/from Pc
Post by: cosmos7 on January 30, 2005, 04:08:44 pm

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I did several searches on this subject and nothing satisfactory turned up.

Is there a How-To for setting up a desk top to Zaurus wifi link?
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Well, assuming your network connection is up and going, there are any number of ways to go about it.  Remember the Zaurus is a handheld linux machine, so you can really do anything you would from a desktop linux station; there are pre-built packages available for most things you could want.  

Generally, I either use ssh to go to/from my linux fileservers, and smbmount to mount windows shares on my Zaurus.  You could install a ssh server on the Z, and copy to from the desktop too.

And of course, there is the file transfer option from the Z Desktop.

Title: Wifi File Transfer To/from Pc
Post by: tz on January 31, 2005, 01:29:32 pm

It depends on what exactly you want to do.

You can enable the samba server over wireless (I think it is a file something close to /usr/local/samba/smb.conf, and you just need to add eth0 or remove the restriction to usbd0).

ssh/scp also works, and I think you can turn on FTP service.

Title: Wifi File Transfer To/from Pc
Post by: johnw on January 31, 2005, 09:23:49 pm

ftp on the Z does work.  Just go into /etc & uncomment the ftp line in inetd.conf

Then do a "ps -ef | grep inetd" to get the inetd pid.  Once you have the pid issue a "kill -HUP pid" command replacing "pid" with the actual process id.

At that point your ftp daemon should be running on the Z.

Hope that helps.

Title: Wifi File Transfer To/from Pc
Post by: cvmiller on January 31, 2005, 11:45:15 pm

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I did several searches on this subject and nothing satisfactory turned up.

Since you are specifically asking to do file transfers over wireless, I would suggest installing OpenSSH on the Zaurus. That will give you ssh, as well as scp for file transfers.

If you are looking for something more GUI like, you can use Konqueror and use the URL: sftp://zaurus@<zaurus_ip_address>/

You will be prompted for the Zaurus user's password. Enter that, and you can copy and move files just like they were local.

I hope this helps,

Craig...

Title: Wifi File Transfer To/from Pc
Post by: bluedevils on February 01, 2005, 02:34:13 am

NFS?

Title: Wifi File Transfer To/from Pc
Post by: cvmiller on February 02, 2005, 07:49:42 am

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NFS?
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Good point! That would be the easiest way, if you are mananging your files from the Zaurus (since it only has NFS client). It works great, and even over wilreless.

Craig...

Title: Wifi File Transfer To/from Pc
Post by: craigtyson on February 02, 2005, 01:55:53 pm

Iv been using Samba on the Z but pushing from the PC as I have data on two PCs one Windows one Mandrake. The HOWTO samba over WIFI / Ethernet doc covers what to do on both ends.

Title: Wifi File Transfer To/from Pc
Post by: Tyris on February 02, 2005, 06:30:56 pm

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Good point! That would be the easiest way, if you are mananging your files from the Zaurus (since it only has NFS client). It works great, and even over wilreless.

Craig...
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Hmm. I had a poor experience with NFS on my Zaurus. Not sure why, but it was flakey at best, and caused the machine to hang outright most of the time. I had a much easier time mounting SMB shares.

Could be general lack of experience maintaining NFS networks, but SMB was pretty easy to do. Did you have to do anything special on the server side (or client side for that matter,) to get it running smoothly?

-T

Title: Wifi File Transfer To/from Pc
Post by: cvmiller on February 02, 2005, 09:30:07 pm

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Hmm. I had a poor experience with NFS on my Zaurus. Not sure why, but it was flakey at best, and caused the machine to hang outright most of the time. I had a much easier time mounting SMB shares.

Could be general lack of experience maintaining NFS networks, but SMB was pretty easy to do. Did you have to do anything special on the server side (or client side for that matter,) to get it running smoothly?

-T
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Gee, I haven't done anything special (I thought), and it has worked fine for me. Of course, my NFS server is another Linux machine. I have heard that linux NFS doesn't play well with other implementations of NFS (like MacOSX).

On the server, I just edit /etc/exports, then use exportfs -a. On the client (read: zaurus) I just use the mount command: mount -t nfs <server_IP>:/mnt/path /mnt/on/zaurus/path

Never had any problems, other than I have to unmount NFS putting my Z asleep (or removing the wi-fi card).

I hope this helps,

Craig...