Bug 407613

Summary:	Bluetooth file transfer not working out of the box
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Michael Monreal <michael.monreal>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P3 - Medium
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
Whiteboard:	gnome-wrong-out-of-the-box, gnome-function-does-not-work
Found By:	---	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Michael Monreal 2008-07-09 15:23:41 UTC

oS11 detects my build-in bluetooth just fine and shows a bluetooth icon in the tray. However I am not able to send files to the oS11 box or browse the share after I enable those options (File transfer options in the "General" tab). I see a "obex-data-server" process but if I send a file my other PC tells me that the oS11 box does not support receiving files :(

As a workaround I found that starting the gnome-obex-server app works. But IIRC this app (as well as the whole gnome-bluetooth package) is deprecated now. RedHat did some great work to make Bluetooth work great on Fedora9. They ship a slightly patched bluez-gnome package (worth checking patches?) as well as gnome-user-share, which would be nice to have in openSUSE as well to have a central point to control user shares.

Comment 1 Michael Monreal 2008-09-24 12:02:28 UTC

Update: looks like the ability to share files has been removed from bluez-gnome upstream during 1.x somewhere.

I am experimenting with a solution for this in my obs home.

Comment 2 JP Rosevear 2008-11-04 17:02:10 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 402048 ***