files wirelessly between my Blackstone and my laptop ?. I do not like bluetooth.
Can I also stream movies?
Bluetooth is easiest if you are only sending single files.
FTP is easiest to access files on your PC from your handset if you don't know how to create shares and access them over networks. To do this, you will need to run an FTP server application on yout PC (Filezilla is a good one), and a client on your handset.
If you understand network shares, then you simply need to make the folders where files you wish to access reside network shares. Doing things this way means you can stream music and movies.
There are literally thousands of sites which will teach you how to set-up network shares depending on your operating system.
Likewise there are many which teach you how to run FTP servers.
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Hi all, ok so I've been experimenting with VPN on my home network I want to be able to try and stream my music collection to my MDA (That would be sweet), but I'm having a wee bit of trouble. So far I have managed to get remote desktop working, I know it doesn't have anything to do with VPN, but I started with that, and I can establish a VPN connection to my desktop. I can see the connection active on both the phone and the pc, the only problem is that so far I haven't been able to see/access my shared folders, I have done a great deal of checking in the past few days. I haven't found anything I can use... everything is more along the lines of VPN from pc to pc, not pocket pc to pc. They way to access the shared folders is trough file explorer and choosing open path and then putting in your VPN servers ip address or name and the shared folder you want to access right?
Hi,
Is it possible for my WM6.1 device to join my LAN Workgroup such that I can view the files on my PPC from my desktop computer and drag and drop files over to the PPC via WIFI? Kind of like using the PPC as a NAS device?
Thanks in advance
Rob
Yes and No
To my knowledge no. i believe that microsoft stopped allowing that feature within active sync quite awhile ago, but what i have managed to do is to create a computer to computer network (ad-hoc) where my PDA was the access point and my laptop could then connect to that.
I could transfer files using explorer on my phone to access my network drives on the laptop, then copy and paste from there, but i could not find my phone on the laptop due to it not having shared folders to my knowledge.
The things i would like to achieve is shared internet over wifi by using the phone as an access point and to figure out how to access files on phone on the laptop. Not the other way round.
When i created this computer to computer network i thought that if i had 3G connected it would automatically pick up the connection on the laptop but i was wrong.
Which means i am no expert on the matter, but im sure there is a way
the same rules goes for pda's on the same net as for other computers
if they got the correct rights to access shared dirs
it can access them and map them if one use programs like total commander
and know a bit about network in generals not really that user friendly i guess
It can be done, I use a program called WMFTP. Google it.
Yea i get some of it
Rudegar said:
the same rules goes for pda's on the same net as for other computers
if they got the correct rights to access shared dirs
it can access them and map them if one use programs like total commander
and know a bit about network in generals not really that user friendly i guess
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Some of it i get but others bits i dont. Like is it possible to set sharing rights to directory's on the phone? If that is possible great.
Also how do you find out the device name or would you have to use the ip address for mapping those directory's?
I have a touch diamond and would love to map the internal storage on my network, but have failed at that.
Still not figured how to share the internet connection of the phone over wifi either
I'm sure this question must have been asked and answered before, but I have searched and can't find it, feel free to point me to the right topic.
I would just like to access the storage on my HD2 wirelessly on my wifi network at home. How do I get the HD2 to show up as a network drive?
Try MyMobiler or WIFI Remote Access http://www.julien-manici.com/windows_mobile_wifi_remote_access/
I don't think you can make it as a shared resource in the network, but you can always share folders from the pc and access them on the phone (for moving files from the pc to the phone and vice versa in case you give full access to the folder).
I hope it helps.
PS: I use resco explorer to access network content over wifi.
Wifi remote access as mentioned above, or theres also Mochasoft FTP server.
But I don't know of a network drive/samba style server.
Hey!
I want to transfer (image) files between my android phone and a pc. Am I correct in assuming that as long as the phone is already configured and connected to the same wifi network as the pc, I just use standard java code (like sockets) to transfer the files to/from the phone?
If not, could anyone point me to the android specific way of exchanging files over wifi?
Look up WebSharing app in market
SwiFTP or Symbian
No no, it looks like I didn't word it right. I'm not after an existing app to transfer files.
The application that I'm coding does a lot more than just exchange files, it's just that I need to code some file exchange as part of the application.
JCIFS Samba, I believe is what you need.
I want to share files with an iphone user and a pc.
Is there an app that creates an ad-hoc network and create a web file server to do this?
I know there are apps for both these things separately, but I don't need to tether and I wanted a single button to do all (and I don't even know if combining apps would allow me to do this).
As an added bonus, if the created web server allows uploading files it would also allow to get files from iOS and pc.
Is there an app for this?
The easiest method that comes to mind is that you can turn most Android devices into a Samba file sharing server, which would be easily accessible from Windows, and most likely in iOS too provided you have the proper client app installed. The only problem is that to set up a Samba server in Android, you need to root your device first. Samba Filesharing in the Market will help you set it up once you're rooted. I don't have an iOS device so I've never been able to try it, but I've read that NetPortal on iOS is a good app for accessing CIFS/SMB shares.
Setting up a Samba server doesn't necessarily create an ad hoc network as well, though. That's something you'll need to configure separately, usually via another third party app, like Wireless Tether.
I use file expert, it creates an ftp server, it's very handy to use....
on my htc magic I use "remote web desktop" but it doesn't work on my transformer...
Dropbox. Everyone should have it, use it, love it
Seriously I use it all the time to keep everything sync'd up on 4 PC's and 2 mobile devices, as hosting for all the things I post online and to share / sync folders with friends (shared collection of ebooks ftw).
I know its not quite 'on the fly' as you were after but its an option
I would have suggested Dropbox, but cloud storage is still much slower than a local server, and is fairly limited in maximum storage. With Samba or FTP, you can use massive external hard drives to host your content, which I'm assuming the OP plans on doing.