If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Rate Thread | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
How do we most easily set up a freeware network of Windows + Linux + iOS + Android file systems
How do we most easily set up a freeware network of Windows + Linux + iOS +
Android file systems I admit, right off the bat, I'm a networking noob who has only used a cross-platform network in a corporate environment, where everything just works (by virtue of the IT Department). Even on Windows, I generally have all the "sharing" turned off, simply because I have never needed to network shared "public" folders (as I just use sneaker net). Hence, I ask for basic pointers on how best to set up a simple freeware file-transfer home network, given this one very specific single situation using the typical SOHO 192.168.1.1 router default setup, with no firewalls, & only native OS neworking software. 1. I have 2 dual-boot PCs on a WiFi LAN with PC1 booted to Windows 10 Pro. 2. The second PC, PC2, is booted to Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop. 3. An iOS device, an iPad, is mounted over USB to PC2 via ifuse. 5. An Android device, a MotoG, is connected over USB to PC1. My noob question is how do I set up the network such that either PC has access to both the USB-connected Android and iOS visible file system? |
Ads |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
How do we most easily set up a freeware network of Windows + Linux + iOS + Android file systems
|
#3
|
|||
|
|||
How do we most easily set up a freeware network of Windows + Linux + iOS + Android file systems
Arlen Holder wrote in
news How do we most easily set up a freeware network of Windows + Linux + iOS + Android file systems I admit, right off the bat, I'm a networking noob who has only used a cross-platform network in a corporate environment, where everything just works (by virtue of the IT Department). Even on Windows, I generally have all the "sharing" turned off, simply because I have never needed to network shared "public" folders (as I just use sneaker net). Hence, I ask for basic pointers on how best to set up a simple freeware file-transfer home network, given this one very specific single situation using the typical SOHO 192.168.1.1 router default setup, with no firewalls, & only native OS neworking software. 1. I have 2 dual-boot PCs on a WiFi LAN with PC1 booted to Windows 10 Pro. 2. The second PC, PC2, is booted to Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop. 3. An iOS device, an iPad, is mounted over USB to PC2 via ifuse. 5. An Android device, a MotoG, is connected over USB to PC1. My noob question is how do I set up the network such that either PC has access to both the USB-connected Android and iOS visible file system? I don't know about the iPad, but the Moto-G connects over USB using "MTP", which makes it more difficult to share across a local network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol There are various workarounds like running a third-party FTP or WebDAV server on the Android device, but I've yet to find one that makes it easily accessible on the LAN and also allows read/write access to both the internal memory and external SDCARD. |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
How do we most easily set up a freeware network of Windows + Linux + iOS + Android file systems
Arlen Holder wrote:
How do we most easily set up a freeware network of Windows + Linux + iOS + Android file systems I admit, right off the bat, I'm a networking noob who has only used a cross-platform network in a corporate environment, where everything just works (by virtue of the IT Department). Even on Windows, I generally have all the "sharing" turned off, simply because I have never needed to network shared "public" folders (as I just use sneaker net). Hence, I ask for basic pointers on how best to set up a simple freeware file-transfer home network, given this one very specific single situation using the typical SOHO 192.168.1.1 router default setup, with no firewalls, & only native OS neworking software. 1. I have 2 dual-boot PCs on a WiFi LAN with PC1 booted to Windows 10 Pro. 2. The second PC, PC2, is booted to Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop. 3. An iOS device, an iPad, is mounted over USB to PC2 via ifuse. 5. An Android device, a MotoG, is connected over USB to PC1. My noob question is how do I set up the network such that either PC has access to both the USB-connected Android and iOS visible file system? As others have mentioned, making USB-connected devices show up as real file systems, is hard to impossible. For 5. it's probably best to use a Wi-Fi - not USB - connection, and use FTPUSE on the Windows system (and something similar on the Linux system) and a FTP server on the Android device. OTOH, if the Android device is rooted, you can use a Samba server on it and use normal (SMB) Network Shares from the Windows/Linux systems. |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
How do we most easily set up a freeware network of Windows + Linux + iOS + Android file systems
On 5 Jul 2018 19:25:58 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
As others have mentioned, making USB-connected devices show up as real file systems, is hard to impossible. Thanks Frank for that helpful suggestion where I will need time to test out the existing suggestions (e.g., the suggestion to assign the device to a drive letter and then share that drive letter on Windows). I'm hampered by the fact that I'm a noob at Windows networking, as I have most of the networking (if not almost all) turned off by default so I admit I don't even have "basic" networking working between computers, let alone USB-connected devices added to that mix. For 5. it's probably best to use a Wi-Fi - not USB - connection, and use FTPUSE on the Windows system (and something similar on the Linux system) and a FTP server on the Android device. As you are certainly well aware, I'm familiar with using Linux or Windows' file explorers (or Filezilla or scp, etc.) to "open" up WiFi connected devices where I use the F-Droid based FTP Server (free) tool for that purpose on Android and a similar tool on the iOS devices. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/be.ppareit.swiftp_free/ That works fine for networking Android, but on iOS it's problematic due to the lack of visibility into the file system that the FTP apps generally have. OTOH, if the Android device is rooted, you can use a Samba server on it and use normal (SMB) Network Shares from the Windows/Linux systems. The "AndSMB" Android client is venerable: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lysesoft.andsmb But the specific Android & iOS devices for this question aren't rooted. It's interesting that SMB clients do exist for iOS though: https://sourceforge.net/projects/smb4ios/ And Linux has no problem with smbclient or the smb servers. |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
How do we most easily set up a freeware network of Windows + Linux + iOS + Android file systems
In article , Arlen Holder
wrote: I'm hampered by the fact that I'm a noob yep. although i can think of much more descriptive words. |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
How do we most easily set up a freeware network of Windows + Linux + iOS + Android file systems
On 6 Jul 2018 00:59:24 GMT, nospam wrote:
although i can think of much more descriptive words. *Yet again, nospam quips his fifth-grade "humor" all day, every day.* The problem with utter morons like you, nospam, isn't so much that you're incredibly stupid (which you are, since you can *never* answer any technical question), nor is the problem that you're not only ignorant, but purposefully unhelpful - but far worse - you actually seem to think you're the most clever guy on the planet simply because you can quip your idiotic fifth-grade jokes all day, every day. Moving the technical ball forward, and noting the success in this thread: What Windwos freeware adds powerful "phone Susan" & "vipw" commands? https://groups.google.com/d/msg/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/ySVGbayhLSk/bo0hPS_6AwAJ We have both these commands working perfectly on Windows: This brings up a ciphertext passwd file on Windows sans major compromise: Start Run vipw {Enter} This greps a plaintext database file on Windows for a given keyword: Start Run phone susan {Enter} The next steps will be to try to figure out how best to network those files so that one password file and one database file serves all the compute devices, whether they're Linux, Windows, Android or iOS. What we want now, is to have a *single* encrypted passwd file for the LAN. It would need to work with all machines & mobile devices on the LAN. That (probably) requires some kind of central "server". Perhaps that's the native SMB server inherent in Windows? \\server\share\path\file.ext Or perhaps that's some other server, e.g., ftp, or http? http://192.168.1.10/path/file.htm What do the cross-platform networking experts on this newsgroup think? Now that we have the original tasks both successfully working perfectly on the first pass on any given Windows machine, what is your astute recommendation for consolidating both the passwd and data files as a single file accesssed from all Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS machines on your local LAN? |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | Rate This Thread |
|
|