I was lucky enough to grab netshare when it was available.
Just now, I was able to get my new iPad and iPhone 3gs connected to the same ad-hoc network. I used my MBPro to first create the network, then attached the ipad and iphone to the ad-hoc network successfully.
I setup the proxies as usual for netshare, and the mbpro could browse via netshare.
When loading up safari on the iPad, I just get the message 'safari cannot open this file' for any url.
When entering the proxy port on the ipad config, it kept changing the 1080 value back to 80, unless I selected a different text input field before escaping out of the network config. When the port was set wrong, i got a different error message. I suspect perhaps there is a bug in there related to the proxy port, or perhaps safari is blocking it on purpose. I can't change the proxy port that netshare uses, otherwise I would try switching it to port 80 or something else.
I realize it's not ideal to have to use a 3rd device to create the ad-hoc network, since otherwise you could just use the laptop to browse instead of the ipad.. But it would be nice to at least have that option!
Any other ideas?
-J
Just now, I was able to get my new iPad and iPhone 3gs connected to the same ad-hoc network. I used my MBPro to first create the network, then attached the ipad and iphone to the ad-hoc network successfully.
I setup the proxies as usual for netshare, and the mbpro could browse via netshare.
When loading up safari on the iPad, I just get the message 'safari cannot open this file' for any url.
When entering the proxy port on the ipad config, it kept changing the 1080 value back to 80, unless I selected a different text input field before escaping out of the network config. When the port was set wrong, i got a different error message. I suspect perhaps there is a bug in there related to the proxy port, or perhaps safari is blocking it on purpose. I can't change the proxy port that netshare uses, otherwise I would try switching it to port 80 or something else.
I realize it's not ideal to have to use a 3rd device to create the ad-hoc network, since otherwise you could just use the laptop to browse instead of the ipad.. But it would be nice to at least have that option!
Any other ideas?
-J