Hi, Oh, definitely. That's certainly a way to do it. It should work, I'd imagine. I'd love to test this, but I don't have an iPhone. I'm curious to know how everyone gets on with using their iPhone as a trackpad for the Mac.
Regards, Nic On Oct 9, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > > While I didn't propose the solution, I do know that your Mac basically > has the ability to be an Airport base station by turning on Internet > Sharing. So even if your laptop is not plugged into a LAN, you can > turn > on sharing via AirPort, give it a name and create an 'ad hoc' wireless > access point. The only machines accessible via this access point > will be > your laptop and anyone else who joins your network. So you just have > your phone join your wireless network and then it should be able to > connect to services on your machine. You give it a name by clicking > AirPort Options in the Internet Sharing config area. You can also > configure a password and such if you want. Note that when a Mac can't > get an IP address from some DHCP server it makes a self-assigned > address > which can be kind of random. I assume it would assign addresses in > this > same range to those connected to your wireless, so you might have to > check the network settings to figure out what the mac assigned itself > and what it assigned to the iPhone when it joins. You can try this all > out ahead of time to make sure it works. > > CB > > Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: >> Hi ester, >> >> Thanks again for such a great indicator :) >> >> So with trackpad pro, it means that i can create a vpn of some sort >> on >> my mac, and the iphone will connect to it? Do i still need internet >> or >> can it be a LAN affair? >> >> I'm asking because the meeting room is isolated from the wifi for >> proximity reasons and there's only a CAT cable >> >> So i'll try that method with trackpad pro, provided that its been >> updated for 3.1 >> >> Thanks again, and best >> >> Yuma >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
