Re: TCP/IP over USB

It sounds like what you want is to use the network connectivity that
ActiveSync 4.x already provides, but without popping up ActiveSync. Can you
do what you want right now with the device connected as an ActiveSync guest?
Seems to me like you should be able to. If I understand correctly, if
that's the case, you should be able to remove ActiveSync from the PC side,
leaving the USB RNDIS driver for the mobile device installed.

Paul T.

"PaulH" <paul.heil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sep 5, 4:39 pm, "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no
instrument no spam DOT com> wrote:
There's nothing built in to do that, other than what ActiveSync is based
on.
Are you the host or the device on USB? If you're the host and you can
make
the external device look like a network device, you could do what
ActiveSync
does, except in reverse, I guess. If you're the client, you could, in
theory at least, use what ActiveSync does, without ActiveSync itself.
You
look like a USB RNDIS adapter and, as long as the suitable PC-side driver
for USB RNDIS is installed, everything should work just like when
ActiveSync
is running, but you don't have to sync.

I think you're going to have to tell us what sort of a device this is,
whether you are the device OEM and are in control of the OS development
or
not, who is the host and who is the device on the USB connection, etc.

Paul T.

"PaulH" <paul.h...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Is there a way to do TCP/IP communications over a USB connection?
Preferably one that does not involve active-sync.
If anybody has any samples or can point me to the proper API calls, I
would appreciate it.

Thanks,
PaulH

What I'm looking for is a way to communicate with a group of WM2005
and WM2006 devices over USB. The PC would be the server and the WM2005
devices the clients, in this case.

I looked up RNDIS as a possibility, but haven't seen a whole lot in
the way of examples for using that online. Are there any?

I have access to all of the OS development libraries.

Thanks,
PaulH



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