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Odyssey instead of Worthless WiFi Clinet?

OK, I totally find the WiFi Client for the MDA Vario totally pathetic. Is it possible for me to get rid of it and use the Odyssey Client (can be found HERE)?

What exactly do you find worthless about the default client, so as I know before clicking on a link that is more than likely a virus.

1. No AES support
2. No LEAP Authentication from same config screen for setting up a Wireless connection.
3. No support for feedback (catch all errors/log status)
Need I say more.
Also, virus? Not bloody likely - hover over the link and you can see that it goes here
http://download.juniper.net/software/aaa_802/public/oac/451/Odyssey Client for Windows Mobile.exe
Juniper.net makes Odysses Client (also Used for the Dell Axim WiFi Client.)
as if I post a link to a virus . . . .

How is it totally useless ?
When i'm at home it connects to my home network, when i'm at work... it connects there. No surprises so far.
It's fit for the job it's intended to do.
Oh, if you're installing Odyssey... don't lose your phone...
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=3942

How silly of me to be paranoid when someone posts a link to an exe file that is just named with spaces from someone called warez!
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gazzrenn said:
How is it totally useless ?
When i'm at home it connects to my home network, when i'm at work... it connects there. No surprises so far.
It's fit the job it's intended to do.
Oh, if you're installing Odyssey... don't lose your phone...
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=3942
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I said pathetic not useless, however, what I mean is: I can connect at home but not at work. Also, I do not connect at home by original design - I had to change my Wireless config of my router to match what the default Wifi Client on my PDA will accept (aka TKIP vs AES which I'd prefer)
Also, at work, we use LEAP authentication (on one SSID) and AES (on one of another SSID) - there isn't anyway for me to connect to any of my Wireless networks at work even though I am privy to all of the information to do so.
Sorry if I sound a bit frustrated (I am)
Any help would be appreciated.
How silly of me to be paranoid when someone posts a link to an exe file that is just named with spaces from someone called warez!
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Well that much I can understand - but checking out the root domain before making assumptions would have clarified that quickly enough.

There is a LEAP is a tab in the Wireless Network settings?

WarezAppz said:
I said pathetic not useless, however, what I mean is: I can connect at home but not at work. Also, I do not connect at home by original design - I had to change my Wireless config of my router to match what the default Wifi Client on my PDA will accept (aka TKIP vs AES which I'd prefer)
Also, at work, we use LEAP authentication (on one SSID) and AES (on one of another SSID) - there isn't anyway for me to connect to any of my Wireless networks at work even though I am privy to all of the information to do so.
Sorry if I sound a bit frustrated (I am)
Any help would be appreciated.
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Thats a much better desctiption of why you need a different client.

There is a LEAP is a tab in the Wireless Network settings?
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Yeah there is - The problem is: That tab is on the Wireless LAN page - the 'Configure Wireless Networks' 802.1x page only gives 2 options for eap type PEAP, Smart Card or Certificate vs LEAP ergo I can not connect. Maybe I am just doing something wrong (I'd love for that to be the case). I admit I am rather limited when dealing with this client and trying to specifically set up a WiFi Connection. That is another reason why I find the default client less-than-desirable - not enough support documentation (either in the manual or via help file attached to the client itself)

WarezAppz said:
Yeah there is - The problem is: That tab is on the Wireless LAN page - the 'Configure Wireless Networks' 802.1x page only gives 2 options for eap type PEAP, Smart Card or Certificate vs LEAP ergo I can not connect. Maybe I am just doing something wrong (I'd love for that to be the case). I admit I am rather limited when dealing with this client and trying to specifically set up a WiFi Connection. That is another reason why I find the default client less-than-desirable - not enough support documentation (either in the manual or via help file attached to the client itself)
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I am having the same problem. I downloaded the trial of Odyssey from Juniper but it won't enable. Don't bother with that LEAP tab in the default wifi client, it won't work. I spent several days trying everything in the book. I have Odyssey on my Axim x50v and it works like a charm connecting to our cisco wireless.
Please post if you find an answer.
As for the gazzrenn, you should tell the IT people at your work that they need to change their wireless settings if you can connect with the windows client.

Can I access pocket internet explorer on the go?

If I'm in a 3g area can I use the PIE (pocket interntet explorer) on the go? I don't fully understand how the net works on these 3g phones lol. Any help is greatly appreciated.

if the settings are set up
then you can use IE the same way as when
on grps, wifi, usb, bluetooth.......

Basically, Pocket IE (or Opera Mobile, or whatever browser you have on your device) is a dumb client - it can only tell if it has a 'route to host', that is, if it can connect to the URL you input or not. If it can't, the software (OS) takes over and attempts to establish a route to the Internet one way or another, so the browser can resolve the URL (address) and serve up the content for your request.
So, in essense, it's actually the netwokring layer of the OS which does all the clever stuff. Internet Explorer will just use the Internet whichever way it's given to it, so long as it gets it in a way it can understand. And bingo, this is where the long-established, universal standard TCP/IP protocol comes in.

I can connect to my home wi-fi router but what next?

I set up a Wi-Fi connection to my home wireless router and set up the WEP security stuff as *I think* it should be. I connect to my home network OK *I think* (at least I get no error message from Comm Manager and my router shows it has successfully allocated a valid IP address to the device using DHCP).
What happens next?
If I try to use any external resource such as a web browser my device tells me it's connecting via GPRS.
In file explorer I have no way to see anything shared on my network.
Do I need extra software to access files on my home network?
Do I need to set some extra flags to tell the device to use Wi-Fi in preference to GPRS?
Just in case it's relevant, I'm using a Wizard (T-Mobile(UK) MDA Vario) and my home network is a collection of Windows XP Pro PCs and a NAS hard drive.

total commander is good imho to brows
and in settings->connections->connections advantage
make sure you pick mynetwork at not myisp

Thanks!
I now get my device to use Wi-Fi instead of GPRS after I set the correct option under
settings-> connections-> connections advanced
Total commander looked promising, but having installed it I still can't connect to any of my network shares, and the help on the web site seems to relate to the Windows client only. I don't have a "Network neighborhood" appearing on my PocketPC so navigation is still a problem.
Even if I type in the full network share name (which I could do with the standard file explorer) I can't connect. Total commander reports "Error 58 when connecting" but there's no help for that either. At least TC gives me an error code, which is a little more helpful than File Explorer.

Tulaine said:
Thanks!
I now get my device to use Wi-Fi instead of GPRS after I set the correct option under
settings-> connections-> connections advanced
Total commander looked promising, but having installed it I still can't connect to any of my network shares, and the help on the web site seems to relate to the Windows client only. I don't have a "Network neighborhood" appearing on my PocketPC so navigation is still a problem.
Even if I type in the full network share name (which I could do with the standard file explorer) I can't connect. Total commander reports "Error 58 when connecting" but there's no help for that either. At least TC gives me an error code, which is a little more helpful than File Explorer.
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Resco File Explorer is good but I use Bizzdev's Netuse though you may be hard pushed to find a working download link for the PDA version (freeware), but I'm sure there are ways.
Mike
Mike

The title threw me off ... "I can connect to my home wi-fi router but what next?"
I was thinking:
- Surf the net
- Hack a gibson
- Have fun
1. Get connected to my home wi-fi router
2. ???
3. Profit.

HTC WM6 as member of Windows LAN workgroup via WIFI

I have a new AT&T Tilt and I've just installed a WIFI access point on my home/office LAN. My WIFI laptop was simple to configure as member of the Windows WORKGROUP. I've been struggling with my TILT. Some questions:
1) Is this supposed to work?
2) How do you assign the TILT to a workgroup?
3) I can see other workgroup PCs from the TILT, but I cannot see the TILT from other PCs. I am able to ping the TILT from a PC both by ip address and by device name (which happens to be "tilt").
Thanks for any help,

From what I understand you want to be able to browse phone files over wifi?

Yes. On any LAN PC, I would like to click on "My Network Places" and see the WM6-Phone listed with the other WORKGROUP computers. Then I would like to be to click on it to browse its directorys. And also drag & drop files to/from the phone. Thanks.

comet270 said:
Yes. On any LAN PC, I would like to click on "My Network Places" and see the WM6-Phone listed with the other WORKGROUP computers. Then I would like to be to click on it to browse its directorys. And also drag & drop files to/from the phone. Thanks.
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Not sure that's going to work unless you can find some other way of connecting other than by using Activesync

I understand the "Not sure that's going to work..." part. I don't follow the "unless you can find some other way...". I'm not using Activesync (at the moment) I wish to use a WIFI Access Point to join a LAN WorkGroup. I call that "some other way". It would seem that this desire would be widely shared by the wider community of users. It's a logical thing to want to do. There are enough parameters to tweek that given the proper expertise, I would guess that you could connect anything to anything else. I just don't have the expertise so I thought I would pose the question...

As far as i know, windows mobile doesn't include a smb (file) server. You have only a client. This means that you can browse your desktops' shares from the phone but not the contrary.
Windows CE 5.0 and 6.0 actually have a smb server but i think this is not shipped with the Mobile variant.
Unless you find some 3rd party software of course (i don't know of any but i've never really looked for it).
Bye
EDIT: if you want to be able to share files in the PPC with the desktops in the network, you can install a FTP server in your PPC. Then you can use a ftp client on the desktop to browse the PPC.
Try this one: http://www.mochasoft.dk/freeware/ftpd.htm

Nice solution. Thank you.

Seeing LAN shares with Tilt
I have the same goal (to share both ways between Tilt and LAN), but some additional issues.Have had the Tilt for only one day, so forgive me for any dumb questions!.
Can't even see the LAN shares from the tilt (nor the other way around). The phone indicates it is connected to our WiFI, and other LAN PCs can see another's share \\Titan for eg., but when I type //Titan into the Tilt browser it says it can't connect to that. Any suggestions why?
I wondered if its a syntax problem. Seems the Tilt does not have a reverse slash (\), but I would think forward slash (/) should work equally well.
In some circumstances, the phone invites logging into a VPN, but we dont have one established on our LAN. Would this facilitate sharing files? Does setting one up require running a server or is a simple Peer to Peer network sufficient? If so, how do you set one up?
Once I am sure I hve a Wifi connection I will try the ftp client solution.
Any suggestions welcomed.
Thanks
Trekker451

Wi-Fi File Sharing with HD2

At home, I can connect my HD2 to my home wi-fi network, and access the Internet that way.
I have my home computers set up for file sharing, so I can access the files of one computer from another, over that home network.
When the HD2 is connected to that same network, I would assume there is a way to do that with the HD2 as well, in both ways--
1) to access a PC's files from the HD2
2) to access the HD2's files from the PC
(Please note--I know one can do #2 via ActiveSync (USB or Bluetooth), or the "storage card as disk drive" option as well (USB). That is not what I am discussing here though. I am asking how to do that via wi-fi (no AS involvement at all), when the HD2 is connected to the home wi-fi network.) I assume it would necessitate setting up the HD2 somehow for file sharing, but I don't know how to do that.
Besides the default file manager on the HD2, I have three better add-on file managers--Resco (commercial), and Total Commander and GSFinder (both free). One would think that with one or all of those one could do #1, when connected (as the PCs are already set up to share), yet I cannot figure out how.
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Does anyone know how to do that?

Remote Access will help you with #2.
*Edit* A Google search found this.

Kalavere said:
Remote Access will help you with #2.
*Edit* A Google search found this.
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If you buy the most recent version of wifi remote access from the ms market place (and tbh i think julien needs the support) you can access an included ftp server as well. Also, wifi remote access will work over 3g/HSDPA if you set the option to allow it. It's all you need really.