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Linux users - Easy way to browse the iPhone (must have SSH)

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Old 22-08-2009, 10:30 AM   #1
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Linux users - Easy way to browse the iPhone (must have SSH)

Just been playing around with the phone this morning and I've found an easy way to copy files to and from the phone.

Go in to Nautilus (or whichever file browser for the desktop system you are using) and in the location type...

sftp://root@iphone.ip.address/

You will now connect directly to the phone and can browse around, copy/delete/move/rename files to your hearts content.

You can also make shortcuts to specific folders like downloads...
sftp://root@iphone.ip.address/User/Library/Downloads

and here's the one I now use for easy copying of icons for the Orbz theme...
sftp://root@iphone.ip.address/Library/Themese/Orbz.theme/Icons/

I know there aren't loads of linux users out there, but hope this helps some
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Old 24-08-2009, 8:14 PM   #2
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Re: Linux users - Easy way to browse the iPhone (must have SSH)

Is that with a jailbroken iPhone? I just tried it using WinSCP (don't have access to a Linux machine at the mo) but couldn't connect.

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Old 24-08-2009, 8:17 PM   #3
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Re: Linux users - Easy way to browse the iPhone (must have SSH)

I use the SFTP protocol to connect using FileZilla
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Re: Linux users - Easy way to browse the iPhone (must have SSH)

Yep, needs to be JB'd and have OpenSSH installed on the phone
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Re: Linux users - Easy way to browse the iPhone (must have SSH)

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Yep, needs to be JB'd and have OpenSSH installed on the phone
Ah, thought that would be the case

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