FTP (File Transfer Protocol):
It’s fairly simple to set up password-protected FTP between the L5 and a storage drive attached to your wireless router (if it supports that), enabling you to move files around your network. The storage drive can even be a simple thumb drive.
Log in to your router and find the USB and FTP settings. Create a user name and password for your FTP activity, add read/write privileges, and optionally create a specific folder on the storage drive to use for file transfer.
On the L5, open the Files app (I’m using Nemo), and look for “Connect to Server” under the File menu at the top. Select it, and when the box pops up, fill in your router’s IP address, select FTP (with login)
, add the user name and password you just created, and the folder name you made, if any. Optionally choose Remember this password
, and that’s basically it. (You might have to switch to landscape at some point to see all the buttons.)
Beside the menu item Network
, you’ll now see your “server” location, where you can access that folder on your router to store a file to be picked up from your other computer when you’re ready. (You’ll need to create the FTP connection on the other computer(s) as well…a similar process.)
If I recall, file transfer from the L5 to a thumb drive is not yet implemented - @Purism, correct me if I’m wrong - so the router option is convenient for the time being. (Before I set this up, I had been moving screenshots and such by attaching them to a draft email, then picking them up on my laptop so I could post them in the forum.)
There are other ways to move files between machines on your home network:
- Using Terminal commands
- With shared network storage
- Etc.
Maybe some of you can explain them below for everybody’s benefit.
EDIT: Thanks to all who posted other and better methods below, exactly as I had hoped. Now we just need some brief tutorials or links to existing guides, so even the novices among us can do them.