Can my Android Smartphone be synced with gentoo linux?

shgadwa · Guru Joined: 12 Mar 2009 Posts: 326

I'm sure this is possible, I would like some ideas.

I use my phone all the time. Perhaps more than my laptop. I'm a field engineer so I take photos with it, scan in paperwork, make .zips with it, email, fax, etc. etc. Sometimes it is more convenient, perhaps faster, to copy files (usually pictures) to my computer before emailing them in. It would be nice if via wifi or some other means (perhaps the cloud??), everything on my phone could be picked up easily from my laptop without needing a usb cable.

I was thinking of not going the cloud route because its probably going to be expensive. While I do have google docs on my phone, it doesn't seem to automatically sync files. Besides it seems to me like google docs is perfect for docs, not so great for photos and such.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

gringo · Advocate Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 3591

what about dropbox ?
works quite well for me, it keeps files in sync between my desktops and my phone easily.

cheers

platojones · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:21 am Post subject:

If you have wi-fi available on your local network, it's pretty easy to do. I use a free Android utility called File Expert that understands Samba...so I just set up a Samba file share on my Gentoo file server and wirelessly copy files back and forth at will.

shgadwa · Guru Joined: 12 Mar 2009 Posts: 326

Thank you guys.

Samba sounds like a good method... I'll give it a go.

forrestfunk81 · Guru Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 359 Location: münchen.de

You should give www-apps/owncloud a try. It can sync files, contacts, calendar, gallery. I have owncloud running on my vserver because i don't trust google & co.
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