Synchronisation and file transfer

At the time of writing (June 2003), the Linux Qtopia 1.6.1 synchronisation program does not work with Zaurus v3.10 ROM. This is very disappointing. The Windows Qtopia 1.6.1 synchronisation program works well, but cannot be used successfully with Win4Lin.

Zaurus ROMs earlier than 3.10 included an FTP server. No FTP server is accessible on the 3.10 ROM by default. However, the 3.10 ROM does provide a Samba server. To use Samba, The samba-client package needs to be installed on the SuSE Linux machine. After connecting the Zaurus to the USB docking connection, use...

smbclient -L //zaurus/ -I 192.168.129.201

...to list the clients available on the Zaurus. When asked for a password, just hit the 'Enter' key without typing in any password. For practical purposes, use...

smbclient //zaurus/home -I 192.168.129.201

...to access files on the Zaurus. By altering configuration files, there is a way to avoid typing in `-I 192.168.129.201', and also to use Konqueror to access the directory of the Zaurus. However, I have no idea how to do that!