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Thread ID: 114633	2010-12-11 05:50:00	Smartphones - computer networking	Nomad (952)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1160612	2010-12-11 05:50:00	Hi, is it easy to locate phones that can access a shared network folder and a networked printer? Thanks.	Nomad (952)
1160613	2010-12-11 08:30:00	Anything running Windows Mobile should be able to access a SMB share with no problems, but printing would depend on driver availability for the printer. There are multiple SMB share-compatible applications on the Android Market (such as ES File Explorer) to allow an Android based phone to access shared folders, and though I don't have an iPhone to be sure, I would imagine there are such apps for the iPhone as well. In both cases, there are also apps for printing to networked printers, but I have not had need to try these myself so cannot recommend any.	inphinity (7274)
1160614	2010-12-11 10:36:00	Usually for iPhone / Android (I never got printing to work from Windows Mobile 5/6) you have to open your document in a specific application. I've not used ES File Explorer, but Astro certainly does SMB file sharing fine. Most of the printing apps though that I've seen are document viewers / editors with some description of functionality that links them to a desktop application running on another windows machine elsewhere on the network. Or, in the recent iOS4.2 case, it'll allow you to print to something like 4 specific model HP Printers (Not just any printer, just those specific few models). Because of the way Android works, it's a hell of a lot easier to set it up with Android to print, because you can set specific default applications for document types etc, rather than having to manually fire up an app, and copy your document across to within that applications walled-garden. Hope that helps clear things up a bit, but I'm not sure I've explained myself terribly well :p Cheers Chill.	Chilling_Silence (9)
1160615	2010-12-11 11:01:00	Maemo (which runs on a handful of nokia devices, most prominently the N900) runs linux, and out-of-the-box it will pick up SMB shares on a network. Printing would probably be a challenge though, I've never seen anything print-related anywhere to do with maemo.	ubergeek85 (131)
1160616	2010-12-11 11:22:00	Maemo (which runs on a handful of nokia devices, most prominently the N900) runs linux, and out-of-the-box it will pick up SMB shares on a network. Printing would probably be a challenge though, I've never seen anything print-related anywhere to do with maemo.Maemo is technically capable of running CUPS, and should therefore be able to handle network printing with relative ease - although as I don't know the detail of how Nokia has put Maemo together, I'm not sure how hard it would be to actually get CUPS installed.	Erayd (23)
1160617	2010-12-11 11:28:00	as I don't know the detail of how Nokia has put Maemo together, I'm not sure how hard it would be to actually get CUPS installed. Kinda my point, although I guess I didn't make it all that clear: since it's Linux (debain-based IIRC) it can fetch you a cold beer if you put enough work into it, the only real question is; how hard is it to set up? One would hope there's a nice pre-compiled pre-configured copy sitting in a repo somewhere, but that's not always the case :D	ubergeek85 (131)
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