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FYI and Heads-Up: "Air Sharing"
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Wireless router is Needed
No, a wireless router is not needed if your Mac (Or PC) has a built in Airport.
You can just create a wireless ad-hoc network (1: from network preferences say you want to share your computer via the airport, 2: turn Airport on airport and 3:,turn on file haring +/- internet sharing) and you can then mount the iPhone and a external drive just following the instructions included with the App.
I am using it like this until I get around to retting a proper router.
The App is great though it did crash when I tried to copy a 100 MB file, though a 30MB seemed to copy OK.
Ehh forget it. Good experiment in frustration. Good thing I have DataCase which actually WORKS.
Umm. I'm not sure why people are having trouble. I down loaded the App, and mounted it via finder>go>external disks, the disk appeared on my desk top.
(I then made an alias which I left on the desk top, now as long as the phone is on and in range click on it and works great.)
FYI - the developer's web site has a VERY GOOD support forum where he, Dave, actively is giving advice and troubleshooting ... highly recommend checking it out, especially for Bonjour probs since Apple is buggy with phone names like Alex's iPhone ... the apostrophe throws the Bonjour address off ... anyways, check it out at >>> http://www.avatron.com/support/list.php?3
for windows xp users:
opens windows explorer. Select from menu Tools-> Map Network Drive...
Now on the new window select the drive letter you want to assign to the new (network) mapped drive and in the "Folder:" field type:
http://192.168.x.x:8080/Public
you have to replace the 192.168.x.x address with your own.
Thats it. Select "Reconnect at logon" so you dont have to do that every time your power on your pc, and then press Finish.
now you will have the share folder appear in windows explorer as a common drive
Regards
Nikos
opens windows explorer. Select from menu Tools-> Map Network Drive...
Now on the new window select the drive letter you want to assign to the new (network) mapped drive and in the "Folder:" field type:
http://192.168.x.x:8080/Public
you have to replace the 192.168.x.x address with your own.
Thats it. Select "Reconnect at logon" so you dont have to do that every time your power on your pc, and then press Finish.
now you will have the share folder appear in windows explorer as a common drive
Regards
Nikos
just got to work and air sharing cannot find the network !!
as my boss says "all of you that embrace bleeding edge technology... bleed" - it looked GREAT yesterday - it does not today - no i understand why is free for the first TWO weeks - but in general, i usually do not have the windows fire wall ON, it causes more problems than help - sorry for not being helpful :-(
Well, after spending a couple of hours, i think i got something going - STEP ZERO turn off windows firewall under control panel - STEP ONE power off (and wait a couple of min) and then power on the iphone, launch air sharing, if you do not get network connection repeate step one if you do get connectivity air sharing goes into the screen where it displays the folders in the iphone ( Public and Samples) - STEP TWO leave the iphone alone on the folders screen and log into your router, i use firefox3, routers have a screen where all the clients logged into the router are listed, the list shows the assigned IP addresses and the name of the device among some other info, well the name of my phone is "iphone-4". when i am in itunes that name of my phone is my name which happens to have FOUR letters could be a coincidens but the fact here is that the router identifies my iphone as "iphone-4" - log off the router - STEP THREE follow the procedure for "add a network place" and in the address window I used "http://iphone-4.local:8080" and after about 30 seconds the wizard found the iphone and was able to finish the procedure and the icon for the iphone appeared on the network places.
i think the critical part is to find out how the router sees your phone so you can use the bonjour syntax because every single day the iphone will be assigned a different IP address by the router, i assume that different router mfgs and their firmwares handle device naming in different ways
i still cannot get it talk to my macbook pro though
Ehh forget it. Good experiment in frustration. Good thing I have DataCase which actually WORKS.
Until your documents disappear for no reason
When I installed Files, I used this link from their install instructions to update Windows WebDav, which was important to get it to work. Since Air Share works the same, I would guess that it applies as well.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...12-632E-4C04-9382-987622ED1D64&displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...12-632E-4C04-9382-987622ED1D64&displaylang=en
Air Sharing 1.0
Mod note: threads merged.
This is freakin' sweet!
http://www.avatron.com/products
From DaringFireball.net
Air Sharing is a terrific utility for the iPhone. It uses Bonjour networking to run a WebDAV file server. You mount the server as a volume in the Finder (or on Windows or Linux), and you can send files back and forth to your iPhone. On the iPhone, it provides file viewers/players for a slew of common formats, such as iWork, Safari web archives, PDF, RTF, movies, audio, and images.
The regular price is $7, but the introductory price is free. (Via Michael Tsai.)
Mod note: threads merged.
This is freakin' sweet!
http://www.avatron.com/products
From DaringFireball.net
Air Sharing is a terrific utility for the iPhone. It uses Bonjour networking to run a WebDAV file server. You mount the server as a volume in the Finder (or on Windows or Linux), and you can send files back and forth to your iPhone. On the iPhone, it provides file viewers/players for a slew of common formats, such as iWork, Safari web archives, PDF, RTF, movies, audio, and images.
The regular price is $7, but the introductory price is free. (Via Michael Tsai.)
This is freakin' sweet!
http://www.avatron.com/products
From DaringFireball.net
Air Sharing is a terrific utility for the iPhone. It uses Bonjour networking to run a WebDAV file server. You mount the server as a volume in the Finder (or on Windows or Linux), and you can send files back and forth to your iPhone. On the iPhone, it provides file viewers/players for a slew of common formats, such as iWork, Safari web archives, PDF, RTF, movies, audio, and images.
The regular price is $7, but the introductory price is free. (Via Michael Tsai.)
Late reaction boy strikes again.
Well, I just found out about it. So for those who have not seen this, here you go.
Well, I just found out about it. I did a search on here and didn't find anything. So for those who have not seen this, here you go.
Hehe, I've been there too.
I got it earlier this week. Very nice app for sure. I made sure to get it while it was free.
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F136 Safari/525.20)
I've been toying with this since yesterday and It is a great App. I highly reccommend it, get it fast since the introductory rate (free) ends 2 weeks from September 9th.
I've been toying with this since yesterday and It is a great App. I highly reccommend it, get it fast since the introductory rate (free) ends 2 weeks from September 9th.
This is freakin' sweet!
http://www.avatron.com/products
From DaringFireball.net
Air Sharing is a terrific utility for the iPhone. It uses Bonjour networking to run a WebDAV file server. You mount the server as a volume in the Finder (or on Windows or Linux), and you can send files back and forth to your iPhone. On the iPhone, it provides file viewers/players for a slew of common formats, such as iWork, Safari web archives, PDF, RTF, movies, audio, and images.
The regular price is $7, but the introductory price is free. (Via Michael Tsai.)
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/558868/
Whether you buy the app for $6.99 or pick it up for free, the updates will be free.
Hit the link to bring up the app description. They say that the update is going to be free so we can only assume that future ones will be also.
Link (opens iTunes)
If the name of your iphone has an apostrophe in it, it will not work. Rename it so that it doesn't have an apostrophe. You can do this by clicking on the name of your iphone in itunes when it is docked. So let's say the name was "John Doe's iPhone", rename it to something like "Johns iPhone". The enter in http://johns-iphone.local:8080 under "Connect to Server". That should make it work. I was having the same problem and that fixed it. Hope I could help.