[tinyhack]

Ok, if you have rooted your playbook, you can access Bridge functionality from your PC. It means that you can do BBM, messaging, etc from PC. For me, it is much easier to type things from PC.

So it will go like this:

blackberry -> playbook -> PC

First, setup the bridge to your playbook. Make sure you can access your BB from your PB.

Then we need to get sshd server running in your playbook, and make sure it is renamed so it doesn't get killed by qcondoor. I will also use different port number (23) so it won't conflict with qcondoor. In your playbook:

cp /base/usr/sbin/sshd /accounts/devuser/s_s_h_d
/accounts/devuser/s_s_h_d -p 23 -f /var/etc/ssh/sshd_config

If you want to make s_s_h_d to be run in startup, put the last line to startup.sh

Now from your linux/mac desktop, connect to PB, and add option to enable port forwarding (I am sure someone will be able to guide you tgo figure out the settings for putty in Windows).

ssh -p23 -v -i pb root@192.168.0.160 -L 10000:127.0.0.1:187

192.168.0.160 is my playbook ip address, -p 23 is the port number -L is local port forwarding. It means forward port 10000 in localhost to 127.0.0.1 in the target host.

Now from your desktop computer, go to a web browser (webkit based such as safari or google chrome is preferred):

to access BBM, go to:

http://localhost:10000/bbm/

to access messages, go to:

http://localhost:10000/message/

Tasks:

http://localhost:10000/tasks/

Contacts

http://localhost:10000/contacts/

Calendar

http://localhost:10000/calendar/


Note: may be I will setup tinyproxy to make this functionality much easier to use without mucking around with ssh.

[TomCanuck]

genius :O thanks for this! It hadn't even crossed my mind!

[M.Rizk]

What about Browser

[DangerMouseUK]

Kudos, clever idea.

[Bighead278]

For putty:
Host Name = playbook web ip ( ie 192.168.1.122 )
Port = 23

Connection->Tunnels
Add a new forwarded port
Source Port = 10000
Destination = 127.0.0.1:187

also you can go to http://127.0.0.1:10000 for a homepage of bridge stuff

[Bighead278]

username: root
password: root

at least that's what works for me

[HorizonXP]

This is bloody brilliant. I've been looking for something like this for ages, and now I finally have it! I just wish there was a legit way to do this.

[SCrid2000]

when i try to login to the pb via the web ip...with the same public key for putty i get the following error

server refused our key

then it asks for a password but nothing works..

Same here. WOnder if it's cuz dingle logs in as devuser now instead of as root.

[WillyyR]

This is great tinyhack,

love using bbm from my browser. Shot a quick video showing it of for you guys. Thanks for coming up with this. [YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBII_vlmjhQ[/YT]

[Sith_Apprentice]

for some reason my browser isnt rendering anything but the bottom icons and top bar. the entire middle (and the majority of the screen) are completely blank

[gtirsmiley]

Ahh ! I messed up !

[kpd001]

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but is there any way to automate this so an SSH window would not have to be open the whole time? It would be nice if this could be a function included in the Dingleberry application or in a separate app that is minimized to the tray.

[xsacha]

kpd001: The Playbook side of things is already automated.

You mean to automate this on Windows/Mac/Linux? I suppose you could use a batch script and stick it in autorun on your OS.

[kpd001]

On the Playbook side I need to run the s_s_h_d command every time I restart my Playbook. I've added it to the startup.sh script but it still needs to be done manually for some reason. Then after that is done I have to open a PuTTy connection so the ports are forwarded correctly and keep it open for the duration of use. Could that be done with a script so the putty connection is not required?

[chintal3993]

i tried to follow the above instructions but every time i use dingle ssh through windows 7 and type the first command i get error file doesnt exist
can you please put up a video or help me out with it