[ale] [OT]How does Android pull off url "spoofing"?

[Justin Goldberg]

I found a new app today called Droid NAS, it basically sets up an SMB
server on the phone. It's made by the company that created Teracopy. The
description states: *Windows is NOT supported because it can't connect to
SMB servers via a non-standard port.* Pretty funny! It makes me wonder if
there's a non-MS SMB client for Windows that would work with it. Does the
Windows port of Samba come with a client?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codesector.droidnas


On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 4:47 PM, James Taylor <
James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com> wrote:

> FWIW -
> I'm running into the same issue.
> Google has changed the file access to use mtp, which I have yet to get
> working reliably on my opensuse machines.
> I installed SSH Server from icecoldapps on my HTC One, and it has worked
> great for me transferring over wifi.
> -jt
>
>
>
> James Taylor
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>
> >>> Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> 8/17/2013   11:56 AM >>>
> The only way I've been able to get files transferred from my wife's
> Linux box to/from her Android phone is by using AirDroid.  gMTP just
> doesn't work.  Anyway when she brings up the app on the droid, it
> instructs her to go to www.airdroid.com (might not be perfectly
> accurate, I don't recall the exact url for sure) and lo and behold when
> she goes to that url, she's connected to her phone, which is connected
> via wifi to the router.  How in the heck does Chrome or FF know to
> resolve that url to 192.168.2.91:8000 or whatever it is?
>
> I thought I understood networking but that's stumped me.
>
> Thanks for any insight.
>
> Jim.
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