missing an obex way to send/receive files

[Nicolò Chieffo]

Binary package hint: bluez-gnome

the new bluex-gnome applet is great and lets you enable some services such as input, network, serial, audio.
A file (obex) service is missing, and the user must install gnome-bluetooth if he wants to send/receive files.
gnome-bluetooth is in universe and adds a further applet, so it's not the right thing in my opinion.
The best choice would be to integrate obex file service in bluez-gnome and add a service for files. moreover an integration with nautilus-sendto should be added.

[Marcel Holtmann (holtmann)]

This will happen. It is the plan to include it, but might not happen as quickly as you want.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

All right, thanks for the information!

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

The new bluetooth applet in Hardy has an option called "Receive files from remote devices"

[Id2ndR (id2ndr)]

Yes it has an option called "Receive files from remote devices". But without running gnome-obex-server, it doesn't work. While running it, it seems that the applet already register the server.

$ gnome-obex-server

** (gnome-obex-server:23243): WARNING **: OBEX server register error: -1

** (gnome-obex-server:23243): WARNING **: Unable to initialize OBEX source

** (gnome-obex-server:23243): WARNING **: Couldn't initialise OBEX listener

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

@Id2ndR

You don't need gnome-obex-server now for data transfer. There is another package obex-data-server which provides this functionality. It is main and installed by default, provided ubuntu-desktop is installed.

If that is not working for you please open another bug.

[Id2ndR (id2ndr)]

@Onkar Shinde,
Ok finally this is working without gnome-obex-server. I restart bluetooth-applet, bluetooth daemon, and replug the bluetooth dongle to get this working, but I don't remember exactly in which order.
So my trouble is just related to the fact that I pluged my dongle after starting the computer. I'll create a new bug after having done more tests about that.

[Ahmad Amr (aamr)]

I have done all the steps above, but I still need the gnome-obex-server in order to receive files on my PC, my phone is Nokia e61, and it always displays the "Sending Failed" message if the gnome-obex-server is not opened even if I enabled the "Receive files from remote devices" option in the Bluetooth applet and I even killed and re-ran the obex-data-server and restarted my PC several times, any ideas?

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

@aamr,

It's of no use adding comments to a bug in fix released state. Please file a new bug against obex-data-server with detailed steps to reproduce.