Re: Phone Edition hates ActiveSync

From: Helio Diamant - MS-MVP/Mobile Devices (helio_at_nospam.pocketpcfreak.com)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:43:13 +0200

Usually this is connected to the way you set connection manager, and the way
you set your passthrough options in Activesync. Try to see in the options
button of Activesync how Passthrough is set. 

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"Tim Johnson" <tjohnson@high-point.com> wrote in message 
news:ObPzbnXGFHA.3732@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>I have a PocketPC Phone Edition with Sprint as the carrier.  We've 
>developed a public web service to be accessed over CDMA, and that works 
>fine.  But during development we have it our LAN so I want to use it 
>locally, ie not dial out over cellular.  The PDA doesn't have WiFi, so I 
>just cradle it over USB to my laptop where the service is running.
>
> But it appears the PDA doesn't recognize URLs like 
> http://mymachine/myservice.asmx, so calls to the web service fail.  I 
> don't think it's a DNS issue (other regular iPAQs work fine doing this). 
> I also observe that if I run File Explorer on the PDA and click the little 
> remote-icon, so I can browse //mymachine, it fails in exactly the same 
> way. Which is to say, it prompts me to change my connection settings, 
> which of course is a baffling-beyond-belief experience.  I've tried 
> setting it for My Work/Internet instead of Sprint PCS, with no luck.
>
> If I substitute a hard IP address for the URL 
> (http://192.168.0.4/myservice.asmx), it all works great.
>
> Finally, I can use Pocket IE on the PDA when cradled this way and get to 
> any site via URL or IP address.
>
> Anybody know how to get LAN UNC addressing to work in this situation?  In 
> the old days I thought basic Microsoft Networking for peer-to-peer 
> required NetBios, which I have enabled on the PC, but these days I don't 
> know where to start looking.  The PDA itself is set up to have no DNS 
> configured at all.  Thanks!
>
> -- 
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> Tim Johnson
> High Point Software, Inc.
> www.high-point.com
> (503) 312-8625
>
>
>
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