Monday 25 February 2008

Browse your network from the P1i

I'm currently trying out SymSMB from Telexy - it's currently a beta release, but looks promising so far.
SymSMB is designed to allow you to browse your network from the phone, and copy/move/delete files.

From the main menu you start by going in to "Control Panel". In here, you can create user accounts (if your network shares are not open to all and sundry) and then create a new "Connection". This effectively maps a drive letter within SymSMB to the machine\share you specify, using the user account you choose, via the connection you choose. So, I have a J: drive that maps via my home WLAN to my home computers C$ share, and a T: drive that does the same at work to my laptop. The new beta seems pretty stable - I copied a whole MP3'd album to the phone via wireless (the first release just froze trying to copy one small file for some reason!)

I haven't yet tried accessing stuff via a gprs/3g connection and VPN, and I also haven't tried the reverse option - browsing the phone from a computer on the network, but it's certainly an app worth keeping an eye on.