Please help me to understand commands for the Gnome-VFS-Obexftp program.

[Chris Debenham]

On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 13:20 +1100, pew_from_hobart wrote:
> 
> Dear UBUNTU People,
> 
> This email's subject says it all: 
> Please help me to understand commands for the Gnome-VFS-Obexftp
> program
> 
> This is a bit complicated so I'll try to get my facts correct. *SMILE*
> 
> I will happily supply more technical details as requested. (As long as
> I myself can work out what you need to know)
> 
> ( I'm still only a newbie at Linux UBUNTU ... however, I love it. I
> think that UBUNTU is superior to M$ Windows in so many ways!!! )
> 
> I'm trying to install software which will let me use a small device
> called a "USB Bluetooth Dongle" (which I currently have plugged into
> one of my computer's USB ports) communicate with my new SAGEM my411x
> mobile phone.

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> I think the program installed okay... but I don't know how to test it
> or the commands to use to operate the software.

You don't actually use gnome-vfs stuff directly.  It is used by gnome
applications such as nautilus.
In the case of gnome-vfs-obexftp you can go to nautilus and enter
obex://[00:00:00:00:00:00]/
Replace 00:00:00:00:00:00 with the id of your device.
An easier way to go is to install 'gnome-bluez' and 'gnome-bluetooth'
then the next time you login a new icon will appear in the system tray
(on your panel bar) that looks like the bluetooth logo.
From this you can search for bluetooth devices, authenticate to them and
then let it load the right path in nautilus.

Chris

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