Supported Servers

 

Saving Passwords

For each of the servers described below, you may choose to leave the Password field blank, in which case you will be prompted for your password each time you connect. If you enter the password it will be stored securely on your iPhone.

Air Sharing

Air Sharing can connect to other iOS devices running Air Sharing on the same Wi-Fi network. When found, they will automatically appear in the Servers list at the top of the Bonjour section.

Gmail

To configure access to your Gmail mail account enter your Gmail address in the User Name field. For example, user@gmail.com, or user@yourdomain.com for Google Apps hosted domains.

MobileMe Email

To configure access to your MobileMe mail account enter your MobileMe user name in the User Name field.

AOL

To configure access to your AOL mail account enter your AOL user name in the User Name field.

MSN Hotmail

To configure access to your MSN Hotmail mail account enter your Hotmail username in the User Name field. Air Sharing will default to using an @hotmail.com address, if you have an @live.com address you can edit the server settings from the server selection screen after saving.

Other Mail Servers

Air Sharing supports connections to any standard IMAP or POP email server, including those secured with SSL. To configure access to your mail server enter the host, user name and password of your account, select IMAP or POP and choose SSL support if required.

MobileMe iDisk & Public iDisk


To configure access to your MobileMe iDisk enter your MobileMe user name in the User Name field.


Configuring access to a public MobileMe iDisk is identical, except that the password is entirely optional.

 

SSH (SFTP) Servers

Air Sharing supports connecting to any SSH enabled server using the SFTP protocol. Mac OS X has built-in support for SFTP through Remote Login, Windows supports SFTP via third party packages, and most Unix based systems include OpenSSH for remote login by default. For more details see the relevant help section in Accessing Servers Help.

 

Specifying SFTP URLs

When adding an SFTP URL the default action is to use the root path of the server. For example sftp://my.server.com/ will display the root filesystem, which would be / on Unix or Mac OS X systems, and C:\ on Windows systems.

To make your home directory the root of the remote server connection, specify the path in the SFTP URL. For example sftp://my.server.com/Users/username and sftp://my.server.com/home/username will display your home directory on Mac and Unix systems respectively. The URL to default to a Windows home directory will depend on the configuration of the third party software being using.

 

FTP Servers

Air Sharing supports both FTP and Secure FTP (FTPS) connections. FTP connections pass your username and password in plain text, FTPS connections encrypt these details during transmission. Enter you user name in the User Name field.

 

Dropbox, Box & CloudME

Simply enter your user name in the User Name field. You will be prompted for your password when required.

 

FilesAnywhere

WebAdvanced Account

To use Air Sharing with FilesAnywhere requires a FilesAnywhere WebAdvanced account. The free FilesAnywhere accounts do not support connecting via WebDAV.


Simply enter your FilesAnywhere user name in the User Name field.

 

MyDisk.se

MyDisk.se offers a free 2GB and a premium 5GB accounts, and Air Sharing supports connecting to both of these. As with other servers, use your MyDisk.se user name and password in the respective fields.

 

Other WebDAV Servers

The Description field is optional, and if left blank will be auto populated with a name based on the WebDAV server URL you enter into the URL field.
Air Sharing supports both unsecured HTTP and secured HTTPS connections. If the URL entered into the URL field does not include the https:// prefix it will default to the unsecured http:// connection.

 

 

The User and Password fields are optional. If left blank, you will be prompted for them each time you connect.