[CentOS] CentOS 6 and android connectivity (Nook)

[Tom Bishop]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:01:42AM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>
>> Tom Bishop wrote:
>> > As far as I know and I have played with a few, but never a nook (well
>> > actually I bought one and quickly returned it, due to the adobe drm
>> > stuff) you are going to have to play with mtp and most likely you will
>> > want to run a newer version that is not in the standard repos, maybe
>> > see what epel has.
>> >
>> > MTP is the choice for connections and can be a pain to get working and
>> > when you do it is clunky and slow.
>> <snip>
>> Hmmm.... Maybe my ubuntu netbook remix might work... and I know I can
>> rsync between it an my system.
>
> If it is using mtp than Ubuntu's version should work.  It might be called
> simple-mtpfs, not sure what they're using.
>
> (My Nook Color is older.  I plug it into a machine and it's just seen as an
> external USB drive.  I run dwm or openbox, so there is no Gnome
> automounting--whether or not that makes any difference, I have no idea.)
>
> For my android (you'll see long threads on both the forums and this list),
> which uses mtp, I got mtpfs working on one CentOS machine, but not others,
> and not on a FreeBSD machine.  Eventually, I just used the remote
> capability of ES file explorer, which let me put an a mini FTP server on
> the phone.  I don't know if the newer Nooks have something similar
> avaiable, but it might be the easiest way to do it.
>
>
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I have also used air drop (app in the store) to also do some file
sharing in a pinch. Allows you to access the deivce via a web
interface and you can move files, kind of works and something to look
at depending on how many files you need to push, pull.