Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Android Build Quirks Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:46:21 +0100 Organization: Dirk Bruere at Neopax Lines: 22 Message-ID: <8vonl4FvbaU3@mid.individual.net> References: <8vi55kFicsU1@mid.individual.net> Reply-To: dirk.bruere@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ZRl+87ej/ZzUUUtLYRf9rAdYoqdKs0STb3iTVOV0rpRedZ3oRg Cancel-Lock: sha1:McJh+ui2zygXWb06LEpYMvN4TPY= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:2747 On 31/03/2011 04:03, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message<8vi55kFicsU1@mid.individual.net>, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote: > >> And the emulator is not to be trusted 100%, esp not with networking >> stuff. > > Hmmm ... the emulator is the only way I can test networking stuff at the > moment. > > Must try and see if I can get my old Asus Eee 701 to act as an access > point... I had big problems with LAN access via the emulator. I wanted to do the Netbios getbyname() thing, which is not supported by Android. Tried JCIFS and that did not work. However, it *did* work when it was used on the real Android Tablet -- Dirk http://www.neopax.com/technomage/ - My new book - Magick and Technology