WordPress on iPhone

Got the wordpress app from the appstore so now I can update from the bathroom and stuff. Huzzah

Some notes on Nullriver’s NetShare application

Nullriver released an app called ‘Netshare’ Thursday night.

Apple pulled it from the AppStore 20 minutes later.

Today it showed up again on the AppStore. I grabbed it and tried it out, and had a few usage notes that might help some people:

Making the Initial Connection

So you’ve followed the instructions in the app, and it’s still not working. Let me give you a few tips.

Setting the IP addresses up as they suggest is good, but ensure you also setup your subnet masks. Set them (on both the phone and computer) to 255.255.255.0

If you’ve made your ad-hoc network on your machine, you’ve connected your iPhone to it, you have your SOCKS proxy set and it still doesn’t work, try this:

If you have connected to your computer with the iPhone, and you have the WiFi bars in the toolbar at the top on the iPhone and not a 3G or Edge icon - your phone is trying to use the WiFi for incoming and outgoing data. To ensure your iPhone stays connected to the WiFi, but uses your cellular data network for outbound, connect to your computer as instructed in the NetShare app. Once connected, fire up Mobile Safari and connect to a webpage - any webpage. You’ll see that the WiFi icon reverts to a 3G or Edge icon after a few second and connects. Don’t worry - the WiFi is still on, but now the phone has realized outbound is via the cellular data connection. Fire up NetShare.

Applications

Safari should use your system settings to get online. Applications like Adium and Firefox do not. In adium, for each individual connection, you can edit them and configure proxies to ‘use system SOCKS5′ settings. Set your connections to this and they will work whether you’re on your normal connection, or you’re on the tethering.

For Firefox, under Preferences/Advanced/Network/Settings select a manual setting and setup a SOCKS5 proxy with the same settings as nullriver instructed for the system.

VPN

While I can connect to my VPN (Cisco IPSec) I still cannot get it to work quite right. We have internal DNS running on our VPN with non-routable (10.23.xx.xx) IP’s that get served up differently on the VPN vs. through the regular internet. Once I figure out how to access these, I’ll post more. I’m guessing if I add a custom DNS setting when tethering this will work, but I haven’t tried it yet. Trying to use the Cisco VPN client on the computer while tethered via the SOCKS proxy has not worked so far either.