In the next tutorial I'm going to teach them to how to connect any android device that has Wifi to our Linux operating system via FTP.
To achieve this we will only need to install one free application for our device Android, the application can be found in the Play Store and it's called FTPServer.
Connection with Ubuntu 12.04 you will not need any external program, since from the same nautilus scout we will get it in a way simple and fast.
Configuring FTPServer
Once the application is installed FTPServer on our device Android, we will execute it and a screen like this will appear:
We will click on Preferences to configure our connection:
On this screen we must select a Username, password, port to be used for the connection and mounting point of our device.
Me to have access to all system files I have selected the mount in the root of the system /.
Once that is done we will select the connections Wi-Fi already known to allow connection, for example that of our house or the one we are using at that precise moment in which we want to connect, connections are also allowed via 3G.
In the next screenshot we can see the open connection to be able to use it via FTP:
IP address from the screenshot above is the one that we will have to use in the next step together with our username and password created in the previous step.
Connecting to Android from Nautilus browser
From any window of the File Browser, we will open the option Archives located in the upper left part and inside we will select "Connect to the server", a screen like the following one will be shown:
We will fill in the fields with the data that the FTPServer, the IP address, the username, the password and the mount point, we will click on the button Connect and we will already have our device connected via FTP to be able to transfer files from one to another with a simple drag.
More information - How to install Ubuntu12.04 on Android devices with Ubuntu Installer
Download - FTPServer