Does Beam on a Nexus 7 EVER work?

[oldAGE]

This may be a result of the Windows HomeGroup networking solution also. That's why I asked about the different computing OS platforms and what you can/cannot see using the LAN tab on ES File Manager. Connecting with a physical cable (USB) is actually launching a device driver on your PC so your Win 7 PC is seeing the N7 not as a "network" connected device but rather as a storage device or a media player (photos, videos, music, etc...). Can you print from your N7 to your USB or Ethernet connected printer? Well, that printer requires a driver so you are often using the PC connected to your printer as the spooler/print server. Can you print directly to your wireless HP printer (assuming you had one) from your N7? Well, does the N7 have the proper Print Driver to spool to the HP? Lots of questions... not a lot of answers. The Tablet is not a PC with defined drivers in the OS for common hardware (like Canon, HP, Epson, Brother... printers). So you have to do a great deal more work to make this kind of stuff work as compared to the "personal computer" world. Same goes -- to a degree -- for "networked connections." IP stacks and drivers and higher layer OSI stuffs sometimes are barriers to expected functionality. Just ask all the people out there who struggle keeping Windows XP computers talking to Windows 7 computers. They are both Windows systems so it's safe to say they should talk to each other without effort.... One would think so. Unfortunately, it's not the reality. Very similar to your original post.

 

[mr_nobody]

I think what you want is an app called airdroid. Let's you manage your device remotely from your pc using wifi.

 

[dartutox]

I think what you want is an app called airdroid. Let's you manage your device remotely from your pc using wifi.

Tried that, just a big PITA.

Thanks for the thought, appreciated

Dx