On Fri, 01 Feb 2019 03:04:13 +0000, bob prohaska wrote:

> When I plug an iPad into my Pi3 both devices seem to notice the
> connection, but an attempt to access the iPad from Raspbian results in
> Error Failed to get folder list: -1 Unspecified error
>
> The Pi seems to think the iPad is a camers, which is a good start.
>
> The iPad asks "Allow this device to access photos and videos?", to which
> I touch Allow. No error is reported.
>
> Is a useful connection possible?
>
What sort of connection is it - USB Ethernet/wifi?

Either way, you need to know what sort of services the iPad is advertsing

For USB
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The Ipad should show up as another  storage volume if you're running a
graphical file manager on the RPi. If you're at command-line level, run
"ls /dev" if the iPad is connected, that should show sda and sda1. If it
is not connected you won't see sda and sda1

With it connected, if you do something like:

$ mkdir ipad
$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 ipad
$ ls ipad

using the console you should see files on the iPad and be able to copy/
move/delete them. Wgenb you're done.

$ sudo umount /dev/sda1
$ rmdir ipad

will clean up after you.

For an Ethernet/wifi connection
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You need to know what services the iPad is offering. The easiest way of
doing that it to run imap to scan the ports on the iPad, something like

$ nmap 1.2.3.4

should do the trick where 1.2.3.4 is the IP address of the iPad or its
host name if it has one on your network. This gets a list of the services
its offering which would hopefully include FTP and/or SSH for file
transfers using the ftp or sftp clients.

If nmap is not installed, which is quite likely, running

$ sudo apt-get nmap

will install it.


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