Hello Chris and All UBUNTU Folk, <div>On 28/01/2008, Chris Debenham <<a href="mailto:chris@adebenham.com">chris@adebenham.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. ... whole bunch clipped ... > 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.</blockquote><div> I don't understand what you mean by enter the 'obex://...' command. Where would I enter it?!? Like I said in my previous email I'm a newbie and I'm not that familiar with Nautilus, yet. Also I don't know what the id numbers of my SAGEM mobile phone is. Is there an easy way I could find out?!?  </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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.</blockquote> <div> That sounds like what I want to do. I did install the gnome-bluez (actually named "bluez-gnome" and there was also other "bluez????? programs I also installed {see list below}) and gnome-bluetooth. I now have the "bluetooth" icon on my system tray. I used the Synaptic Package Manager and searched for "blue". Listed below is a text listing of the programs names (or modules) which have been installed currently with the Synaptic Package Manager. I'm thinking that maybe some of these programs (or modules) could be conflicting with each other. Could you please advise me whether or not I should remove (uninstall) some of these, to try to make my computer using the USB Bluetooth Dongle 'talk' to the SAGEM mobile phone. I must admit that I'm 'out of my depth' here... So I'll rely on your advice ;-))) List of programs installed using Synaptic Package Manager (searching for "blue") ========================================== bluetooth bluetooth-alsa bluez-btsco bluez-cups bluez-gnome bluez-hcidump bluez-pcmcia-su bluez-utils gnome-bluetooth gnome-themes gnome-vfx-obexftp grml-btnet gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-ubuntu kdebluetooth libbluetooth2 libbtctl4 libgnomebt0 libgnomebt0-dev libmultisync-plugin-irmc libmultisync-plugin-irmc-bluetooth libsbc0 multisync nautilus-sendto obexfs obexftp obexpushd opensync-plugin-irmc osso-gwconnect osso-gwconnect-dev p3nf ----end list  </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Chris </blockquote></div> -- Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS My free website is: <a href="http://pewtas.googlepages.com">http://pewtas.googlepages.com</a>  (or)  <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs">http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs</a> (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.)