Notebooks for iPhone Answers

WiFi Sharing

Alfons Schmid, May 27, 2010 18:10

With sharing, Notebooks turns into kind of a hard drive (a WebDAV server, to be exact) that can be accessed from any computer on the same network. This is probably to easiest and most efficient way of getting documents into and out of Notebooks.

Sharing allows you to:

drag&drop documents between your computer and Notebooks
open documents from and save them to Notebooks directly from your computer
synchronize Notebooks between different devices (iPhone and iPad, for example)

To connect to Notebooks from your computer, a network connection between your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad and your computer as well as a WebDAV compliant operating system or application (for example Mac OS Finder, Windows Web Folders or Network Places, Cyberduck, Transmit, etc.) are required. 

To start sharing, please follow these steps:

Make sure that your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad has an active WiFi connection to the same network your computer is connected to.
Make sure you have enabled WiFi Sharing in Notebooks' settings.
Open the book that you want to share and select Share This Book from the context menu. Notebooks will display all details necessary for connecting.
Unless already done, Notebooks will ask you to set a username and password of your choice; you will have to enter these when making a connection from your computer.
Using the Mac OS Finder, Windows or your favorite WebDAV client, connect to Notebooks.
You can now access Notebooks' documents like a folder on your hard drive. Depending on the type of client you are using, you can also up- and download whole folder structures.

Nrcapes, July 26, 2010 04:06

Can't set up under Windows 7 because WebDAV requires installation of an entire subsystem and one has to be a net guru. A web server would be much easier, like in Print and Share

Alfons Schmid, July 26, 2010 08:24

To be clear: by selecting "Share this Book", Notebooks turns into a WebDAV server. You computer is the client, no extra setup is requested.

That being said, Windows 7 is known to have limited support for connecting to WebDAV servers that require login (which Notebooks does). We are thinking about an option to disable login to work around this limitation in Windows 7.

Drschuetz, September 01, 2010 13:11

Ich bekomme keine Verbindung zum WebDAV Server (iPhone)

Das Einbinden eines Laufwerkes ist ja nun wirklich nicht besonders schwer und fuktioniert bei mir z.B. mit dem iPhone-Programm "Files" und "Files lite" auch unter Win7 mit Passwort problemlos. Ich schaffe es nur nicht "Notebook" einzubinden, selbst unter Vista nicht.

- WIFI Verbindung: OK
- getestet mit Vista und Win7,beides funktioniert nicht
- iPhone 4 mit aktuellem iOS
- Einstellung: WiFi freigabe ist aktiv, User und Passwort sind gesetzt
- Bei "Buch freigeben (WiFi)" steht freigabe Ein und die entsprechende ip

Eigentlich sollte es so funktionieren, jedoch das Einbinden "Netzwerklaufwerk verbinden ... " mit "\\ip:8080" führt immer zur Meldung "..... device antwortet nicht"

- Wenn ich im Explorer "http://ip:8080" aufrufe bekomme ich die "Realm"-Passwortabfrage und danach eine erwartungsgemäß nicht darstellbare Seite geliefert .... eine Kommunikation findet also statt.

Was mache ich falsch??

Caesar.kan, December 12, 2010 12:28

I'm using IOS 4.2.1. WiFI sharing doesn't work. I also can't ping my iphone from a PC. Maybe IOS 4.2.1 has a built-in firewall that prevents applications from setting up a server.

Tim Hicks, January 20, 2012 04:24

On my iPad2 with a new version of Notebooks, I did a Share This Book and got an IP address. On my iMac running Lion, I did Connect To Server using that address, It gave me the login window, and when I entered the userid and password I had created on the iPad. A popup then told me "This file server will not allow any additional users to log on." Did I miss a setting?