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UPDATE

I wrote this tutorial just now for cross platform transfer of
files and folders between any desktop (Windows, Mac, Linux)
and Android, over your Wi-Fi network.

o Tutorial NitroShare FOSS cross-platform file & folder transfer over Wi-Fi between any desktop & Android
<https://groups.google.com/g/comp.mobile.android/c/mbOyLNcrCK4>

As always, please improve so all benefit from every action.
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On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 15:24:33 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote:

FYI...

KDE Connect freeware is a cross-platform keeper (IMHO) for _easily_

sending

& receiving files over your Wi-Fi LAN to/from any Linux/Mac/Windows

desktop

to/from any Android phone!
<https://i.postimg.cc/Nf0xfCKz/kdeconnect01.jpg>

IMHO, KDEConnect freeware is a keeper because KDE Connect makes sending/receiving files super easy between your Android phone and any of
the three common consumer desktop platforms (Linux, Windows, & Mac). <https://i.postimg.cc/dtJJ48ty/kdeconnect04.jpg>

Where the references for installing KDE Connect freeware on *Android*

are:

o <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdeconnect_tp>
o <https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/kde-connect-sync-android-linux/><>
o <https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-android>

Helpful references for installing KDE Connect freeware on *Linux* are:
o <https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/01/kde-connect-indicator-ubuntu>
o <https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/install-kde-connect-ubuntu-16-04>
o

<https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-kde-connect-with-mate-ubuntu-debian/>

Useful references for installing KDE Connect freeware on *Windows* are:
o

<https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Windows%2064-bit/job/kdeconnect-kde_Nightly_win64/>

o <https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect/Build_Windows>
o

<https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/dnh1wq/test_release_01_kde_connect_for_windows/>

Related references for installing KDE Connect freeware on *MacOS* are:
o <https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect/Build_MacOS>
o

<https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/07/kde-connect-mac-os-integrate-android>

o <https://kde.inoki.cc/2019/07/16/KDE-Connect-macOS/>
(Only on iOS have I not been able to locate KDE Connect freeware.)

Tutorial references for the various KDE Connect use models are:
o <https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect>
o <https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/kde-connect-sync-android-linux/>
o <https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kde-connect-windows.html>

This information is summarized from a thread on a separate topic

(libMTP):

o Does anyone have libmtp freeware currently working on Linux or Windows
who can show us how to COPY files to/from unrooted Android over USB
using libmtp? <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.os.linux/rN0tMFWPwHo/vT35nL6xCAAJ>

Which itself was an offshoot of this article on copying the desktop hosts file to the protected file system of un-rooted Android using "adb":
o How to copy the hosts file from Windows/Linux to non-rooted Android <https://www.modmy.com/how-modify-hosts-file-your-android-device>

The hope is twofold by the purposefully helpful posting of this thread:
a. Others will benefit from this summarized information, and,
b. Others will be able to add purposefully helpful adult value.
So that everyone benefits from every such technical thread on Usenet.

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On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 04:51:06 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote:

o Tutorial NitroShare FOSS cross-platform file & folder transfer over Wi-Fi between any desktop & Android
<https://groups.google.com/g/comp.mobile.android/c/mbOyLNcrCK4>

As always, please improve so all benefit from every action.

Details matter...

I emailed this to a friend, who asked, quite appropriately:
a. Bbbuuuttt why not just use bluetooth?
b. Or... why not just use ad hoc wi-fi direct from android to desktop?

Hence, I should clarify, even as most of you know my setup, but some might
not, and, in the future, those coming here for solutions definitely won't
know that my desktop doesn't have bluetooth or Wi-Fi (at least not directly so).

The tested desktop is Windows 10 which has no inherent bluetooth nor Wi-Fi capability, so any solution using bluetooth or a direct Wi-Fi connection
would be problematic, to say the least. :)

If your desktop is bluetooth enabled (mine is not); you would have other solutions to compare this against (particularly in speed I would think).

Likewise, if your desktop has a Wi-Fi NIC you might also have other
solutions to compare this NitroShare (and KDEConnect) solution with.

While my desktop does not have a Wi-Fi NIC, it is connected via Wi-Fi to
the LAN (which is far, far, away); but via a short Ethernet connection to a Mikrotik RB411 router running RouterOS 6.28 with an attached Mikrotik Wi-Fi daughterboard R52-n-M and a 20dBi antenna which then connects to the SOHO router on the LAN via its 2.4GHz or 5GHz access point (the R52-n-M can do either but the adjustable wire-mesh dish antenna is currently "tuned" for 2.4GHz.

That may sound a bit complicated (and it is when it comes to NetBIOS
broadcasts being transmitted through that Mikrotik router, which I've never understood well enough to resolve, so only static shares seem to work).

While my setup is merely to extend the range of my desktop so that it can connect to a LAN which could be hundreds of feet away, for our purposes of
this test, we can simply consider the desktop as being connected by
Ethernet to the main SOHO router. (AFAICT)

In summary though, what would be nice is for others to test this NitroShare solution out so that others may benefit from every action you take.
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See also:
o Curious how far your Wi-Fi access point is from your desktop computer <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/PkD0jfa9GqM>
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