is there any way to share files between my wizard and an ibook with an airport card over a wifi connection? i was able to get the wizard to connect to the ibook but was unable to figure out how to move files between them.
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How did you connect your Wizard to your iBook?
As far as I know, OS X does not recognize WM5 natively without the use of a third-party app such as MarkSpace's The Missing Sync.
I don't think there's any way to do that directly, unless maybe there's a
wizard ftp program. Or you could turn on the WebDAV server in Apache on your Mac, and access some files through http?
However, you can connect directly to your ibook with Bluetooth, not WiFi, pretty easily. Might be easier to just grab a bluetooth dongle.
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I have an O2 XDAIIi with 802.11b wi-fi connectivity and a wireless home network. I can connect my XDAIIi to my network access point router very reliably and also my home PC laptop to the router but I do not know how to get my XDAIIi and PC to connect to each other via the router. I would ideally like to use wi-fi rather than bluetooth to connect Activesync for synchronisation. Has anyone managed to do this?
Also, how is it possible to synchronise your XDAIIi (or any other pocket PC) with your home PC remotely, e.g. from a wi-fi hotspot?
I've done this, works great, but an issue is, I understand, that ActiveSync 4 and beyond are going to remove wifi syncing. Eeek.
But, for now, from memory, I think you just set ActiveSync to "get connected" over ethernet I think (the screen where you choose USB, Serial etc). I don't think you do anything special on the PPC, although I might be mistaken. You do have to manually start activesync and choose sync though on PPC.
I'll have to check my settings when I get home.
Re syncing over public wifi: the reason AS 4 removes wifi syncing is because there's no security in it. So public syncing, although techinically feasible AFAIK, might not be safe. But, caveat emptor.
Sorry for being vague, someone infront of a router can probably tell you more, this is just to say it can be done!
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Thanks for your reply. It's really good news to know it can be done. It would be really helpful to know a bit more about your settings when you get home. In particular, do you need to allow your home PC files to be shared/visible? Also, when I open Activesync on my PPC and click Tools there is only the option to connect via IR, nothing else, even when I have a Bluetooth or WiFi connection active?
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Thanks for your reply. It's really good news to know it can be done. It would be really helpful to know a bit more about your settings when you get home. In particular, do you need to allow your home PC files to be shared/visible? Also, when I open Activesync on my PPC and click Tools there is only the option to connect via IR, nothing else, even when I have a Bluetooth or WiFi connection active?
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I wrote a dutch utility how to connect Active Sync through Wifi.
I hope you understand it.
You need ActiveSync 3.8.
And it's important that you create a partnership between the device and your PC through USB.
http://www.leukbellen.nl/activesync/
Good luck.
Yep, listen to adewidt.. connect up normally through USB and activesync as normal.
Then, stick in your wifi card and ensure you can browse the net through PPC. Sort this out first.
Then, check activesync on pc is able to use "ethernet" on the "get connected" settings page.
Once that's happening, I think you just load up activesync on PPC and choose sync (where it says "sync" about 1/3 of the way down the screen on the left, click that). I think it then tries to sync over the network, ie wifi. Activesync on your PC should detect this and get to work.
You don't need to be sharing any files etc, and is not advisable on publically accessible networks like wifi. Also, ensure your firewall is correctly configured. I don't think you need to set anything in partcular for AS if you can already USB sync, but ensure you're using a firewall always when wifi-ing.
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Thanks chaps. Yes I did just about manage to understand the dutch instructions and it all works fine. Very happy :-D
Anyone?
Well if you have a standard IR port/Bluetooth on your your laptop/desktop you could jus simply transfer without Activesync (thats what i do to transfer small files)
Hope that helps
wifi, SD card, BT, IR
Copy files/cabs over. then just run from the wizard
Try a Belkin Bluetooth Dongle if your PC doesn't already have bluetooth £10-£20 from Argos or Ebuyer. go for the more expensive 100m range one not the 10m range.
You cab use the utility form Softick: Card Export II for Pocket PC.
Run an FTP server on your internet-facing static IP address, purchase a domain name for it (for vanity's sake only, really) - log onto the FTP server, download the files via FTP to your phone's memory over the hugely-expensive GPRS connection, and bingo: a totally functional yet wholly impractical method of file transfer.
I'd be more inclined to go for the wifi idea - little USB wifi dongles for your computer don't cost a lot, if you don't already have a wifi network in your house.
doe scard export work for wm5 yet? i thought it was wm2003 only and then only for specific processors (ie, not the Ti OMAP we have in our wizards)
This is perhaps a slightly obscure and probably impossible thing to do.
Basically, I want to be able to use the Alpine (xda2i) like a wireless modem/router, and browse internet from a PC. The laptop has wifi but not bluetooth. I don't want to use a USB connection.
Firstly, I would need to set-up an ad-hoc wifi connection between the laptop and the Alpine. I have been unsuccessful at this so far. Could I have some guidance please?
Then I need a program to bridge the wifi and GPRS connections. The "wireless modem" utility which came with the Alpine does this for USB, IR and bluetooth, but not for wifi. does such a program exist?
Thanks in advance,
its possible, however, primitive. You can get web access only (unless you want to add code to the gateway software to support your specific ports), and it requires a damn jvm as well as reconfiguration of the laptop every time you want to use it after having gone back to your old connection software. its more useful for two pda's, one which will always use the alpine as its web host. Anyway, check it out:
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=453&more=1
pretty easy to set up, I had it running in about 5 minutes, albet not very useful via my gprs connection. enjoy
I just bought a usb wi-fi dongle so that i can connect to my wizard in office over wi-fi. Can anyone give any pointers how can i do file sharing in ad-hoc mode in such a way that i can access files on my office PC through my wizard without having a separate access point.
I tried connecting through ad-hoc mode and my wizard connects to the PC but doesn't show any shared folders and cannot find my PC (not even through IP) when using resco file explorer...
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I just bought a usb wi-fi dongle so that i can connect to my wizard in office over wi-fi. Can anyone give any pointers how can i do file sharing in ad-hoc mode in such a way that i can access files on my office PC through my wizard without having a separate access point.
I tried connecting through ad-hoc mode and my wizard connects to the PC but doesn't show any shared folders and cannot find my PC (not even through IP) when using resco file explorer...
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To browse network folder on your HTC you should install some additional software. I've tried PocketLAN to share files between notebook and HTC via Wi-Fi. It've been working flawlessly. But you have to set IP and network mask on your HTC as it's in the office network.
Hmmm, i just installed pocketlan...I saw that my PPC gets an IP of 169.254.11.69 (subnet mask 255.255.0.0) and mycomp gets an ip of 169.254.87.204. Now am able to ping my comp using pocketlan on my PPC but am not able to map it. Whenever i try to do it, it says network address/name cannot be found.
that's strange What OS do you use?
You don't need any 3rd party software...
The Wizard will do this with it's built in file explorer.
Windows XP is the OS...
Did it finally after umpteen number of tries...Turns out ICS is necessary even for simple file sharing even though i do not want to surf net thru my PC's connection. And I also had to unplug my lan cable as the IP windows tries to assign once ICS is on is 192.168.0.x and this range is already used by my lan thus causing a conflict...Anyways, its better than nothing..I just wanted a faster medium to transfer files than BT which is painfully slow..
Any idea when are they going to provide an upgrade to BT 2.0 for wizard?
Is it possible to active synch thru wifi.?
I am using HTC Touch Dimaond2 and my operating system is Windows Vista Home Edition. If possible, please help to advice how to configure windows and htc to synch the files instead of connecting to USB cable.
Active synch thru wifi has any security issues? if so, how to safely transfer it thru wifi. Whether the file transfer will be thru' wifi will be faster than wifi. Please throw some light on it.
File transfer on wifi
If you just want to transfer files thru wifi you can use "wifi remote access" (search it on xda); for syncing contacts etc I don't know
Sync over wifi was removed from ActiveSync a while back for security reasons:
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/11/08/wifi-did-you-do-that.aspx
Also, Direct Push only works over mobile wireless due to the power drain over WiFi.
Or something like that.
Cheers, Rob.