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Do you still using Bluetooth to transfer you files between Mobile Phone and Computer? If you own a symbian mobile that built-in WiFi , a infrastructure network, and a computer, there is a good news for you, you are able to share your files between your mobile and your computer over WiFi with symSMB 4.0.

Telexy Networks is currently developing a set of technologies and applications enabling seamless wireless networking between Symbian mobile devices and network computers.

With SymSMB 4.00 by Telexy Networks you can:
- play music directly from network music file;
- browse computer network from the phone;
- open files from any network location;
- share phone’s files such that they can be accessed from any computer on the network;
- access phone files from different operating systems: Windows (Vista, XP, Server 2003, 2000), Mac OS, Linux, UNIX;
- work with phone files from any computer through “Network Neighbourhood” or “My Network Places” without additional software installation or configuration on a computer;
- browse network around your phone as you are used to from your favourite desktop;
- get access to the network computers according to your rights and permissions;
- map network drives for easy access;
- flexibly control your phone visibility on network via “Auto-connect” feature;
- do all from the above using any available transport bearer (Wi-Fi, GPRS, 3G, WiMAX, Bluetooth, etc.);
- With SymSMB 4.00 you can just throw away USB cable and bluetooth adapters, and experience the high speed of Wireless Lan. :p

How It works

1. Download SymSMB 4.0, install it on your symbian mobile phone.
2. Launch SymSMB 4.0
3. At first, go to Control Panel / Connection - Create a new connection.

4. Name : “ your desire ID – will be the name display on the workgroup”
Workgroup : “ your computer’s workgroup name – workgroup as default ”
Access point : “ Your home’s router bssid – or you can use Always Ask ”
Autoconnect : leave it
Ip address : leave it
Press Done to finish the setup of connection.

5. Now put your files to shared folder
Go back to the root menu, go to Control Panel/ Shares
Create New
Folder : “ select the folder you going to share”
Name : “ rename the folder that show on the workgroup”
Press Done

6. Now go to Control Panel / Connections / “your connection name” select Start
You will be prompt to select Access point if you didn’t setup the access point on step 4.

7. When the connection is connected, your phone will get a local IP address.

8. You will see your mobile phone at Workgroup now! Have fun.
Update : If your phone didnt show itself at Your Workgroup, you can use another way to go in to your phone.
Go to Start - Run type in \\192.168.0.41\ (according what IP you get on step 6)

I did this on Windows Seven to show you the speed of transfering a file from my lappy to my n81 8gb.
923kb/second , almost 9x of  the bluetooth speed.

** If you want to set password protection on your folder, follow the instructions below.

1. First, you need to create a account/ user
Go to Control Panel / Accounts select New
User : “Enter your desire username”
Password : “ Enter your desire password”

2. Now , Go to Control Panel/ Shares

3. Select Your shared folder – Options – Permissions


4. Select New
Account : “ The account that you created on step 1”
Read : “Yes” - Let others read your shared content.
Write : “Yes” - Let others to modify, add, delete your content.
Press Done.

5. Delete “Anyone” if you don’t wish to let others [except the account that you created on step 1] to read the folder.

In the next post, I will show you how to connect your phone to your computer with ad-hoc connection, without infrastructure network, and without internet connections.

[ Click the link below to download SymSMB 4.00_unsigned ] (updated 24/1/2010)
http://acdf8ca6.youfap.com
Note: This installation file is not sign yet, you have to sign the installation by yourself, or get your symbian phone hacked to install it.