Re: Phone Edition hates ActiveSync

From: Tim Johnson (tjohnson_at_high-point.com)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:19:37 -0800

Nope, I always have Passthru set to Internet on my laptop ActiveSync. 

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Tim Johnson
High Point Software, Inc.
www.high-point.com
(503) 312-8625
"Helio Diamant - MS-MVP/Mobile Devices" <helio@nospam.pocketpcfreak.com> 
wrote in message news:OrZ8hvjGFHA.1096@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> 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!
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Tim Johnson
>> High Point Software, Inc.
>> www.high-point.com
>> (503) 312-8625
>>
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