chris wrote:
Perhaps I was not quite clear: I can browse files on the phone from the
PC, and, as you say, it looks just like another directory.
The thing that does not work is to use the phone to initiate the
transfer of a file to the PC. By default, Ubuntu does not install a
Bluetooth receiving daemon. This comes as part of the package
'gnome-user-share', which also installs capabilities that I do not want.
Stephen Irons
I have Bluetooth on my laptop, and under Ubuntu 9.04 have no issues.
Could it be a version problem?
Cheers Chris T
I also use 9.04. I based my observation on four things:
* I could not send a file from the phone to the PC
* My phone reports the PC's bluetooth services as 'network'.
Bluetooth devices that I can send files to include the service
name 'transfer'. I have tried deleting the PC device from the
phone and making it rediscover.
* Bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/349330 describes
my problem, and says that the solution is to install
'gnome-user-share'
* I do not have 'gnome-user-share installed'
I have installed 'gnome-user-share'. A new configuration menu item
appears: System > Preferences > Personal File Sharing. After enabling
'Receive Files over Bluetooth', it works as expected. My phone now
reports the PC's bluetooth services as 'network; capture; transfer'. I
think 'capture' means that the phone thinks that the PC can act as a
camera or scanner, but my bluetooth knowledge is a bit rusty.
I then uninstalled 'gnome-user-share', purely because it offends my
sensibilities to have to install a web server for my computer to receive
files over Bluetooth.
Perhaps you already have 'gnome-user-share' installed? Or perhaps KDE
does something different?
Also there used to be a package called something like
'gnome-obex-server' that provided a Bluetooth file receiving daemon, but
it has disappear. I think that it was not part of Bluez, so it has been
removed in a general Bluetooth brushing.
Stephen Irons
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