snofs?
snofs is an add-on for the
gammu [1] mobile
phone communication kit. It provides a Linux mountable file
system of a mobile phone. It is also possible to mount the
phone as a 'network drive' under Windows.
snofs provides an ordinary file system
view of the phones file system, SMS and address book.
It also provides a 'proc'-like directory where read-only special
files contain volatile data, e.g. current battery level, signal
level etc. This feature makes snofs very
suitable for scripting and also makes it possible to interface
towards the phone without using the C language nor the
gammu library (indirect you'll use it
since snofs uses it).
snofs is run as a user space process. It
will utilize the gammu lib to
communicate with the phone and a Coda [2]
device or an SMB [5] socket to communicate with
the Linux or Windows file system.
If snofs is compiled correctly,
gammu is set up and working for you
mobile (via irda, Bluetooth or cable), you have Code support in
your kernel and all permissions are sound, starting to browse
your phone is as simple as:
$ snofs &
$ mount -tcoda /dev/cfs0 /your/mount/point
Using SMB, the command lines would be:
$ snofs -T smb --SMB-password xxxxxx &
$ smbmount //127.0.0.1/phone /your/mount/point -o password=xxxxxx
snofs is released under the GPL Version
2 [4].
snofs is a SourceForge project and its
project page is here. There you can
also find some snapshots of snofs in action.
snofs in itself is phone
independent. The phone dependency lies within the
gammu lib, so if
gammu supports a phone it is most likely
that snofs will as well.
For a list of supported phones, please refer to the
gammu [1] home page.
Yes, partially. One should preferrably wait until the next release of gammu (post 1.00.04) before trying out more than simple browsing of the phone. In other words: Don't use this software for critical backups or for modifications within the phones file system unless you have a proper backup.
At the time of writing, the following functionality have been found to work on Nokia 6820 (irda/Bluetooth) and Nokia 6230 (Bluetooth) using the Coda file system:
connection,
batterylevel and
IMEI work as expected.
Using SMB, the same as above works EXCEPT the things that modifies the contents on the phone (i.e. it is as mounted read-only).
Documentation is at the moment just a plain HOWTO in the distribution.
To sum it up: It is stable enough for backing up photographs
(which is what I use if for on a regular basis, OTOH I am a
believer...), but I won't take responsibility for any damage
made to your phone by run-away one-liner-scripts and such! I
have to admit, though, that it's fun to run
find(1) piped through
xargs(1) to do nifty things on the
phone...
SMB was recently introduced and this is where most of the work is done right now. The reason for this is the problems reported to me from all over the place that it is hard to compile the snofs software since the Coda support varies in versions and kernel configurations.
This is a pity, since SMB is not a nice protocol (to put it mildly). On the other hand, it opens up for a port to the Windows platform using cygwin, which is A Good Thing. This will also be the next step after finishing the basic SMB support.
The creation of this software hadn't been possible without the
gammu lib and its creator/maintainer Marcin Wiacek. Marcin has
also extended the functionality of gammu
to help this development, for which I am most grateful.
I would also like to thank János Holányi for helping me with testing, proof reading and for supplying valuable comments.
snofs is inspired by
gnokiifs by Ed
Rosten. gnokiifs is for
gnokii [3] what
snofs is for
gammu, although
snofs aims a little higher (to include
SMS, address book and 'proc' files).