Re: [Bitpim-devel] 0.7-test9 (Bitfling Linux to WinME)

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

> I turned off Microsoft Internet Connection Sharing on the WinME server
> machine.  That helped a lot, I could read from the phone, but I had to
> specify the port, browsing got an exception.  

The exception is because code in bitfling calls usbscan without checking
that usb is available.  (In your case it isn't).  I have just committed
a fix.

> Perhaps we should note in the documentation that running ICS on the
> target machine can impair bitfling.  Maybe picking a smaller port
> number, not much above 1024 might help??

Windows doesn't treat any port numbers as special.  I don't know what
WinME does with ICS to confuse issues.  I would imagine it does do
port blocking of some sort.

I do intend to make the Windows BitFling work with uPnP which should
go a long way.  But at the end of the day BitFling is an advanced
feature and requires a bit more skill and knowledge by anyone using
it.

BTW here is upnp done in Python:

http://icepick.info/2003/09/17/upnp_example.py

Roger