Tethering phone to a PC

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Hi, does my e/OS phone have a built in capability to tether to a PC, ie share the PC’s NW connection ?
An if so, how does one do that, thanks.
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What’s the problem? You plug in an USB cable and your device appears as “mobile device” on the left side in your Explorer. It will not be a regular USB drive, it has a lot of differences to that, it also doesn’t get a drive letter, but you can copy files in both directions. Linux is more complicated.

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share the PC’s NW connection

meaning you want the phone to use the PCs network connection? I’ve learned this is named “reverse tethering” - you can do this with https://github.com/Genymobile/gnirehtet

the other way round - PC using the connection of the phone to route packages to the world can be done natively by Android in its “USB tethering” options

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Ah, yes, “NW” could mean “network” …

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Yes it was Reverse Tethering I was looking to do …

Yay, it works !

Found this helpfull youtube on installing Gnirehtet on windows …
Share Internet from PC to Android via USB | Reverse tether | Gnirehtet

Initailly had a few errors after running the install in CMD, couldn’t see ‘MIDI’ in the USB Preferences section after enabling USB Debugging, but selecting PTP I think resolved things, then got the ‘allow USB debugging’ and then the ‘allow VPN’ connection’ dialogues.

Bizarrely fast browsing, app lounge etc (it was the App Lounge I was trying to connect to originally).

Thanks for the pointer.

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