Hi folks --

I'm looking for a way to copy files between my home PCs and my tablet via WiFi. The tablet doesn't expose its drives the way the Windows machines do. Is there a way to change this? I don't think so ... browsing around the forum has turned up some other solutions, but I haven't seen anything that would allow the file transfers to be run from the PC.

It occurred to me that, if I could run an FTP server on the tablet, I could log into it from the PC with any suitable FTP program. I'm out of my area of expertise here; is this feasible?

If so, the next question is: is there an FTP server available for the tablet? I did find the "dropbear" SSH server. I know that SFTP runs over SSH; does that mean that dropbear supports SFTP?

Thanks --

dropbear sucks. Just install openssh. Gives you full SFTP access. I use openssh on tablet and FileZilla on PC, works flawlessly.

Also, there is a FTP server (a few actually), I think it is called Maemo FTP.

OK, I installed OpenSSH via the app manager, but it's not showing up on any menus. Is there some documentation available on this? I'm pretty new to the tablet. I've used Unix before, but not in many years. I don't mind fiddling around with shell commands, but I do need a bit more info to get started. I found some man pages for OpenSSH ... do I just need to start sshd from the command line?

Thanks again --

If you have installed the OpenSSH client and server then you should be able to log in to your NiT from the PC using the command:

ssh root@NiT.IP.Address
Then enter your password when it asks for it.

I can recommend Gftp for the NiT.

Or just use WinSCP if you're on Windows.

This might help, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ghlight=winscp

bun

+1 for winscp

I transfer files using Open SSH Server on my N800 and connecting from a PC with Filezilla using FTPS.

Any reason you want to specifically drive the transfers from the PC?
To do this in a round-about way, you could try pyrdesktop and enable disk sharing. Your remote windows session will see your tablets disks.
If you're willing to consider driving the transfers from your tablet:
a) Wizard Mounter
b) HFS I just came across this today and haven't tried it with my n810.
Good luck!

For one thing, the bigger keyboard and screen make it easier to do. I currently back up all my essential files to an SD card, and take it with me whenever I leave the house. I want to keep my backup process about like that, but have the SD card living in the tablet instead of my wallet. Also, for convenience in other tasks, it's be nice if the tablet could share its files just like the other computers in my home network. I'll probably try that pyrdesktop app you mentioned.

Thanks! --