In message , Andy
Burns writes

I think he's got that working, and it makes sense for the phone *NOT*
to be a server, sucking up battery power just in case someone wants to
access it, far more sense to have the PC with its mains power be the
server, ready for the occasion when then phone wants to access it, you
can pull or push files using the phone after all ...

Thanks all. I have reached the same conclusion. I don't *need* it to
work without cable - just trying to prove a point to smartarse son :-)

He'll be impressed that I've managed to download an app AND get it
working so I can see the Netbook from the phone wirelessly.

Talking wireless and cable works, why are all these USB cables
different? WTF haven't the mini plugs been standardised yet? Half a
century ago, connecting a tape recorder to a record player was a
nightmare with any combination of jack plugs, DIN, banana and phono to
choose. Nothing has changed in fifty years.
--
Graeme