hi Stephen, i notice that bug was for the alpha6 ver of jaunty. i am to assume form your post that it is still present in jaunty then?
Cheers chris On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 13:06 +1200, Stephen Irons wrote: > 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 > > > ======================================================================= > This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended > addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be > the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or > lost by reason of this transmission. > If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our > apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no > other act on the email. > Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been > altered or corrupted during transmission. > ======================================================================= >
