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Originally Posted by ali
* There is now some file-connectivity stuff. It is completely undocumented. Apparently somehow the Iliad and a Windows PCs can share files over WLAN.
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Yes, but it's so simple that it probably doesn't need to be documented.
In the settings, you tell it the name of the computer you want to talk to. It needs to be running an SMB server (either Windows file sharing, or SaMBa on Linux). You need to provide the share name, the domain name and your credentials to get into the file share.
On the first sync (i.e. connect to Computer, not IDS) it will create 2 directories: inbox and outbox. The outbox will have several directories corresponding to the media on your iLiad: CF, Internal, MMC and USB. The Internal directory has subdirectories corresponding to the internal directories on the iLiad: books, documents, newspapers, notes.
Placing a file in the "outbox" will transfer it to the iLiad on the next sync.
If you tell your iLiad to "share" a document, it will transfer it to the "inbox" directory. Note that it will transfer the whole directory with the manifest.xml and all.
I played with it a bit and it seemed to work quite well. I did not exhaustively test all the file types, though.