I was so excited, Apple and AT&T approved tethering for my iPhone…but it was gone, no wait, gizmodo say’s it’s back! (click on picture to the left which is the “App Store” link in the gizmodo article to install NetShare right now via iTunes). Update:The link is broken now, NetShare is not available in the US app store. For us lucky few who purchased it….it still works…
However, after installing NetShare via iTunes onto my iphone I could not get it to work. I followed the instructions only to get:
Safari can’t open the page. Safari can’t open the page “http://www.apple.com/”. The error was: “unknown error” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1) Please choose Report Bugs to Apple from the Safari menu, note the error number, and describe what you did before you saw this message.
After fiddling with it for a few minutes I found a solution. The iphone appeard to be still trying to using the WiFi connection and not 3G.
So, right before the final step of launching NetShare on the iphone (i.e. after setting up the adHoc network on the iphone to your PC), launch Safari on the iPhone and surf to a page. This will cause the little WiFi icon to change to 3G at the top of your phone. Now lanuch NetShare that you have the 3G icon back and everything will work like a dream.
I can even use the ssh client on my OSX laptop to connect to remote servers using connect.c to proxy ssh through the iphone. To get this to work was something like:
wget http://www.taiyo.co.jp/~gotoh/ssh/connect.c gcc connect.c -o connect -lresolv sudo cp connect /usr/local/bin/. ssh -o 'ProxyCommand /usr/local/bin/connect -5 -S 10.10.10.1:1080 %h %p' 206.71.190.75 # Of course the ProxyCommand can go in your ~/.ssh/config |
Have iPhone, Have Laptop, will travel!
