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ods-server

ODS-SERVER(1)							   User Commands						     ODS-SERVER(1)

NAME

       ods-server - minimal OBEX server based on obex-data-server

SYNOPSIS

       ods-server [options] profile path

DESCRIPTION

       ods-server  provides a minimal OBEX server based on obex-data-server for receiving files over bluetooth.  profile selects the UUID-128 pro-
       file ID to use, currently opp and ftp can be used as aliases for object push and obex ftp respectively.	path is the target  directory  for
       received files.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      show this help message and exit

       -l ADDRESS, --local=ADDRESS
	      ADDRESS of Bluetooth adapter to listen on. Default is 00:00:00:00:00:00

       -p, --pairing
	      Require remote devices to be paired before allowing them to connect. Disabled by default

       -r, --readonly
	      Disallow any write operations. Allowed by default

       -t, --thumbnails
	      Require remote device to send thumbnails when using Imaging (BIP) server

       -a, --ask-to-accept
	      Prompt user to accept or reject every file. By default all files are accepted

AUTHOR

       ods-server was written by Tadas Dailyda <tadas@dailyda.com> and is shipped as ods-server-test.py in the obex-data-server distribution

       This manual page was written by Filippo Giunchedi <filippo@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

ods-server 0.4.4						     May 2009							     ODS-SERVER(1)