In message <[email protected]> on 30 Dec 2011 Bob Seago wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 05:19:28PM +0100, Trevor Johnson wrote: > > Can someone please confirm (or hopefully otherwise) that any attempt to > > build RPCEmu to run under Android would be pointless! > > I bought an android phone last year which is great. [snip] > What I would like to be able to do however is interface it with RISCOS to > be able to mount the device (or at least the accessible parts of it) as a > drive, and also to be able to share bits from a RiscPC or whatever. It would probably be best to discuss this on comp.sys.acorn.networking, as it's nothing to do with RPCEmu. A lot of what you are wanting to do is possible, but it's quite a struggle finding applications at the Android end which are going to work without a lot of messing about. Documentation can be very sparse! For example, to be able to access files from your RISC OS machine from the phone when your phone is connected to your home WiFi network, you could use Moonfish on RISC OS to share your hard drive (or part of it) via NFS. Then all you need is an NFS client for Android. CifsManager appears to be able to do this, but I have utterly failed to get it to work. Alternatively, instead of NFS, you could use !smbserver to share the RISC OS machine's drive via SMB. Again, CifsManager should be able to mount such a shared drive on the phone, but I have not got it to work. It's possible CifsManager would work if the RISC OS machine were supporting a newer version of the protocols. Or maybe the requisite kernel modules are not present on our phone. What I have had more success with is using !WebJames at the RISC OS end, and accessing files on the RISC OS machine using the web browser on the phone. FTP is quite easy, and will work in each direction. If you install FTPServer on Android, then you can connect to the phone easily using !FTPc from RISC OS. If you run !FTPs on RISC OS then you can use an app such as AndFTP to connect to the RISC OS machine from the phone. I also tried setting up an app called PrintBot, which allows you to print to a network printer from your Android device. The RISC OS printer can be shared using Dave Higton's Jet Direct server. This worked quite well, except that PrintBot is severely limited when it comes to what it is capable of printing: I get the impression that Android is not generally geared up for printing though with the number of Android tablets around now there surely must be a demand for this. If you plug the device into an Iyonix or Beagleboard via USB, it's quite likely that you'll be able to access the device's SD card as a mass storage device from RISC OS. Unless you have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 or similar where they've disabled this capability and rely on a proprietary protocol which entails installing Windows software.... -- Matthew Phillips Durham _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
