Thread: should I buy a n900 now?
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2011-02-21 , 13:01
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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
Ah, sorry! I got it backwards. Yes, I've been connecting my n900 to my Mac as an external USB drive, and that's also what I've been doing with bluetooth. I've never tried to do the reverse...

Hmm. From a quick check of the website here (and a little browsing on my N900), it seems that (as shipped) the N900 has no clients for NFS, Samba, even command-line FTP. I am able to browse my Mac via FTP through the web browser though, so at least that is available. It looks like UPnP is also available, if you're wanting to use your Mac as a media server.

But you can probably get client software for pretty much anything. (Except perhaps AFP. ) I guess the more important question is, in what manner are you wanting to share files from your Mac?
Well, it's difficult to know what I will do with the n900, but I can tell what I do sometimes with the x6. If I am transferring some files from the device to the mac or the reverse I use bluetooth from macintosh and just browse the device memory. If they are big files I use the usb cable and use the mobile as a external memory. When I am at home but in other room (read for ex in the bed) and I want to see some files I have on computer, I have more problems. I have this BT application that permit it to me. I'd like to pass in Wifi. I think you are talking about it when you say there are clients. I suppose I could use a SMB protocol... Anyway it's not something I cannot live without.