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Originally Posted by wdarledge
This is one thing I hate about Slackware, to the posters they understand and think they are helping when they are doing nothing for anybody.
Not for me, not for the hundreds of people who have looked at this thread.
Every post on here lacks instruction, a path from Point A to Point ?
Listing websites or programs on the web is useless if there is not a set of instructions that help.
Otherwise this is all futile.
Failures of posts like this to me, are the reason Ubuntu is the go to Distro and Windows and Apple rule the
world.
To all the posters who led me down a dirty road with a dead-end waiting for me .... (0) eat me!!!!!!
odin
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If you want to sling mud, I'll sling it right back.
What did you expect? You asked what step #1 would be. Why not ask Google? (
slackware ftp server) This would at least get you some information on Slackware and FTP servers. The second main link for me (we should probably ignore the first links to the LQ forum since apparently we suck since we don't write all the instructions for software that includes man pages or help online) is titled "Configure VSFTPD on Slackware Linux". Whoa! Could it be that easy?
But no, you hop on a forum and ask the question. Cool. You got a lot of responses. Rather than be grateful for many choices, you choose to complain because there's not a step-by-step guide? Then we go back to dugan's post where he actually tells you that Slackware comes with 2 FTP servers (one of which was listed in the Google search above... with step-by-step instructions). Do you decide to search on how to use proftpd and vsftpd? Apparently not as you then jump to sftp (which, I'll admit, I prefer over FTP).
Then you get an error, whether on the phone or the computer, we have to guess and no further details. No one responds... so, of course, Slackware users suck.
Why not try another method?
I was originally going to post and add my two cents, but since so many people responded, I let it be at the time.
As for you mentioning USB, FTP can't work over that. It's designed to work over a network and USB doesn't create a network. If you want to use USB, then this would be entirely different instructions with various possible methods of attaining your goal.
As for the "hundreds of views", I imagine a lot of those are from internet crawlers like Google or the Wayback Machine. But even if it was hundreds of legit views, that doesn't automatically mean that people are going to know how to fix your problem, or maybe they feel you didn't do enough research and decided to skip over the thread, or maybe they're just lurking. I lurked on this forum for years before I started properly contributing to it. I learn a lot more by reading what other people do than the research I could make on my own.
However, here I come to spoon feed you instructions. This is using sftp over ssh as I don't use FTP for anything anymore. There are probably hundreds of ways to do this and you could use any number apps that support sftp, but I use Solid Explorer. This will be over a network, so you'll need to make sure that both the computer and phone are connected to the same local network (your computer can be wired or wireless, but, for hopefully obvious reasons, your phone will need to be on wifi).
First make sure rc.sshd is executable and started
Code:
chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.sshd
sh /etc/rc.d/rc.sshd start
Now get your IP address or hostname. (Check /etc/hostname or ifconfig output for this info.)
Install
Solid Explorer on your Android device.
Open it and Select the plus sign in the bottom right corner.
Select "New Cloud Connection" and select "SFTP" in the next screen.
Click Next.
Now type your server name (the name of your computer) or the IP address of your computer. Keep the port as 22 unless you know you've changed it to something else.
Click Next.
Keep the default of "Username and password".
Click Next.
Then type in your username and password.
Click Next.
Keep "No" selected.
Click Next.
Click Next.
Click Connect.
Now you can browse your computer's filesystem on your phone.
=====If you want to move things from the computer to your phone====
On the second screen (your computer's filesystem), press and hold to select the items you want to copy. Select copy. Slide to the left screen and navigate to where you want the files saved and select paste.
=====If you want to move things from the phone to your computer====
On the first screen (your phone's memory), press and hold to select the items you want to copy. Select copy. Slide to the right screen and navigate to where you want the files saved and select paste.
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Slackware is not designed to be easy to use. Some of us feel it is easy to use, but there's no grand design other than trying to keep things vanilla. You should expect to need to get your hands dirty in Slackware. You'll probably break it at some point. You should be comfortable trying to figure out how to do things yourself. You should not expect handouts on the forum. You should use that as a starting point and try to get what you can done, and if you run into issues, post *detailed* information so we can try and help you.
Overall, I imagine most Slackware users don't care how popular Windows, OSX, or Ubuntu are. We like that Slackware sticks to its principles. If you need the type of hand-holding that the Ubuntu forums can offer you, maybe you should switch to Ubuntu. There is no best distro for everyone. However, for some, a distro can be the best *for them*. There's nothing wrong if someone finds a distro that is better for them than Slackware. Maybe you should have a think on if this is the right distro for you. If it is, then I'd recommend trying to use the forum as a starting point. Get some suggestions, then dig in and try to find the solution. Ideally, you could even come share that solution back here so others can benefit from it.
