Thread: how to make N900 part of my home network?
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bennypr0fane is offline bennypr0fane
2011-09-07 , 20:18
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Originally Posted by electroaudio View Post
For vice versa you have to look at tinysmb.
-which was mentioned first in this thread.
I already found Smb in extras-devel and installed it, it gives me Samba 3.5.6, but it seems to be command-line only. What is the difference between Smb and Tinysmb, apart from the GUI?

For now, I configured and started a share with Tinysmb according to the instructions on my-maemo.org. It doesn't give any kind of confirmation when you press "start server" though, and I still can't see N900 on my WinPC. Also I'd like to password-protect the share, but the button for "check password" doesn't react. I tried to open the "tinypasswd" file in Filebox, indicated as location of the passwords in /etc/tinysmb/, but it wouldn't

Originally Posted by electroaudio View Post
However, if all you want to do is to synchronize files between them, then you can do like i do by using RSYNC on the N900 to a folder on the shared drive.
(GRSYNC will install rsync and provides a easy to use graphical frontend for it)
Thanks for the hint, will try this!

And, may I ask everyone a tiny favor: When you recommend that is still in the extras-devel repo, please add that information to your pointer! I (and maybe some other people too) usually don't have extras-devel enabled and I get frustrated when all the cool apps I've been told about seem to be not there ;-)

And also:Thanks for your help, it's greatly appreciated!