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Comment on Tethering android and OSX without root by Anonymous

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Comment on Tethering android and OSX without root by Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:33:32 +0000

Thanks!

Works on snow leopard 10.6.5

I just needed to add the “-script-security 3 system” flag to the openvpn call in the script

line 8:
sudo openvpn2 –dev tun \
–remote 127.0.0.1 41927 \
–proto tcp-client \
–ifconfig 192.168.56.2 192.168.56.1 \
–route 0.0.0.0 128.0.0.0 \
–route 128.0.0.0 128.0.0.0 \
–keepalive 10 30 \
–up “$0 up” \
–down “$0 down” \
–script-security 3 system

Comment on ll in Ubuntu by Brian

Brian — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:53:39 +0000

Helped me… thanks!

Comment on Tethering android and OSX without root by DarkFox

DarkFox — Wed, 19 May 2010 07:54:48 +0000

Works on HTC Desire as well.

Really nice, this means I wont need to root it

Comment on Tethering android and OSX without root by Krys Wallbank

Krys Wallbank — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:06:42 +0000

AHAHAHAHAH! F*ck you Rogers and your $6/hr pimply-faced tech support that can’t spell Linux, let alone support it. My Android Developer phone is now tethered to my MacBook Pro, despite your best efforts to stop me thanks to this well written and WORKING method of tethering my Android G1 to my MBP!

Comment on Tethering android and OSX without root by Tarek

Tarek — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:53:00 +0000

I did that and it worked, and after fixing all the errors and actually having it running someone posted on androidcommunity.com that there is a software: pdanet that does all that. I checked it out, and it did work.. very simple and easy too.. so check it out as well:
http://www.junefabrics.com/android/mac.php

Comment on Tethering android and OSX without root by jecortez

jecortez — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:54:15 +0000

@CKN: It is not an appleScript, it is a bash script. It should be run from the command line. Follow steps 6 and 7

Comment on Tethering android and OSX without root by CKN

CKN — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:03:18 +0000

Hi there, when I copy and pasted your script into my Mac’s “Script Editor” and attempted to run the script, it found a great deal of syntactical errors including the { and } symbols in various places, and also had an issue with the use of the word “forward” at some point. How do I remedy these problems so I can run the script? Thank you

Comment on Tethering android and OSX without root by jecortez

jecortez — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:24:06 +0000

@Marvin: scutil must be installed. Try replacing that line with “/usr/sbin/scutil”

@Tai: That is a bash script, use step 6. You are going to need the android development tools.

Comment on Tethering android and OSX without root by Marvin

Marvin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:25:46 +0000

First of all, thanks for the clear instructions!

But, there seems to be a problem on my Leopard (not SL) Macbook.

First of all an addition to your script: The new openvpn2, version 2.1, requires one to add the following flag to the openvpn2 command:

–script-security 2

After fixing this, there seems to be a problem with scutil:

./androidtether
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 OpenVPN 2.1.1 i386-apple-darwin9.8.0 [SSL] [LZO2] built on Jan 11 2010
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 NOTE: the current –script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 ******* WARNING *******: all encryption and authentication features disabled — all data will be tunnelled as cleartext
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 TUN/TAP device /dev/tun0 opened
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 /sbin/ifconfig tun0 delete
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can’t assign requested address
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 NOTE: Tried to delete pre-existing tun/tap instance — No Problem if failure
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 /sbin/ifconfig tun0 192.168.56.2 192.168.56.1 mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 ./androidtether up tun0 1500 1502 192.168.56.2 192.168.56.1 init
sudo: scutil: command not found
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 script failed: external program exited with error status: 1
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 Exiting

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!!