or network attached hard drive over my home wireless network? In other words, can I dispense with the usb cable and transfer files via wifi?

Thanks for any info.

Ken

See here:
http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howtoaccesswindowsfs/

or here:
http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howtoaccesswindowscifs/

They were written for the 770, but I'm assuming it works for the N800 as well (links to N800-specific software are in the howtos).

You might want to browse through the howtos; they're full of all kinds of interesting stuff.

I'm not sure about NAS or NDAS hard drives; I bought one myself, but haven't set it up yet (that'll be a while...)

SSH/SCP/SFTP or regular FTP also work well, if you're willing to deal with a command-line app. I cross-compiled gftp, it's rough around the edges, but does work to connect to SFTP and FTP servers. See This thread for details.

If that's a Windows PC, then once you have an SSH server running on your n800, you can use WinSCP (http://winscp.net) for drag and drop file transfers to/from your n800. On my Mac, I use MacFusion and sshfs to remotely mount parts of the n800 file system. I shall look into doing the same on my Ubuntu box. Also, keep an eye on maemo-fuse in the garage, which should allow use of the ssh file-system for mounting remote file-systems on the n800 when its done.

If you're using KDE under Linux on the desktop, Konqueror has a protocol called fish:// that gives you a nice graphical file browser over SSH to the tablet. To use it, simply enter fish://username@hostname(OR IP)/path/to/folder. If you don't enter a path, it dumps you in your home directory.