Connecting a tablet to my home network

[Jason Sauders]

I have yet to have success with android devices connecting to my Ubuntu
machine (which is... weird). Likewise, I'm a network centric kind of guy
and rarely have cables on me to connect anyway, as they tend to stay at
their respective charging station (my nightstand).

Instead I use a combination (depending on what I'm doing) of samba and air
droid (on play store). You can rig up your main system with samba, or use a
dedicated file server. From there es file explorer, as somebody mentioned,
will allow you to connect, browse, copy, etc. It's a great app and worked
very well for me having already had a basic samba setup. Samba isn't that
difficult to set up though. If I recall the sharing functionality under
properties within Nautilus might get you there, but I haven't tried that
personally to be positive. Air droid is different yet similar, if that
makes sense, giving you a web based frontend to your device. Like the samba
setup you can browse files etc etc. Both are great utilities. I use them
both frequently.

Hope this helps. Have a good night!

-J
Sent from my Android
On Dec 1, 2014 11:09 PM, "Nathan Dorfman" <na at rtfm.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> > If I open Nautilus on my desktop or laptop and double click on Network I
> can
> > see entries for them in Nautilus and they can share files, etc.  The
> tablet
> > does not show up in Nautilus when I do this and I have not been able to
> find
> > any way on the tablet to interact with the other machines on the network.
>
> Assuming those are SMB shares like Robert said, you should be able to
> access those from your tablet using any one of a number of apps, like
> ES File Explorer.
>
> You can also run an ssh/sftp server on your Ubuntu machine and use
> apps like ConnectBot or AndFTP to access it.
>
> The tablet won't appear in Nautilus because it's not a SMB server. You
> could probably set it up to be one by installing some app, but I
> wouldn't recommend it. If you really want to access it from Nautilus,
> you could try something like SSHDroid, which is an ssh server for
> Android. Once it's running, you should be able to open it in Nautilus
> by pressing Ctrl+L and entering something like
> sftp://<username>@<tablet_ip>. (The app will have more detailed
> instructions.)
>
> -nd.
>
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