On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:19:06AM -0700, Andrew Daviel wrote: > > Is there a simple command that can be used with rsync to send files > > to/from the tablet over Bluetooth ? > > If you set up Bluetooth networking and can ssh into the tablet, then > yes. > > (Personally, I haven't managed that. I installed some Maemo Bluetooth > PAN package and had no idea what to do next.) > > > At home I give everything static ip addresses and names, and have SSH > > keys set up, so rsync/scp works transparently (at work, too). > > > > I have tried using ad-hoc mode on my laptop, but if it's using managed > > mode to e.g. a hotel network that's not possible without a second NIC. > > You could connect both the Nokia and the laptop to the hotel network and > use rsync. If manually figuring out IP addresses is too much pain (it > is for me), you could set up Avahi to have DNS autodiscovery: > http://thpmaemo.blogspot.com/2008/11/get-avahi-working-on-maemo.html > > > My > > new laptop has Bluetooth which works nicely but only from a GUI - on the > > tablet I must move things into ~/MyDocs/ or /media/mmc* to find them, and > > I have to always send not upload/download. > > > > (actually, I wonder why the BT implementation on Linux needed to reinvent > > the wheel, and could not just appear as another transport layer like Ethernet > > or FDDI. Then scp/ssh/smb etc. would just work.) > > That's not how Bluetooth works. Only one of the Bluetooth profiles is > usable for IP networking, and, AFAIU, once you got that set up, that's > exactly what you get. > There is a very simple way to make sure you get to the devices you want: set up OpenVPN, have your very own server assign known private addresses and use them (say through /etc/hosts) to get to your devices no matter what transient IP address they get. Works like a charm and is very, very secure. julius _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
