CE 5.0 File Server setup issues

From: Jeff Cooper (jacooper_at_visi.com)
Date: 01/25/05


Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:15:24 -0600

Hello,

I'm trying to configure a file server on a WinCE 5.0 device and am
running into some issues that I hope someone can help me with.

I started with a new platform and basically followed the instructions in
the help for configuring a file server except that I didn't use the
Enterprise template. I have limited amount of flash and that's a little
bloated. I also added the Telnet and FTP servers as well for debugging.

Everything seems to go ok when I built and burned it. After the system
boots, I get the ip address from running 'ipconfig' on the device. Then
with that ip address, I can ping, telnet and ftp to it. I also can
remotely configure the system via a web browser.

My problem is that I can't accesses the network shares I've configured.

According to the help, I should be able to open a explorer window and
type '\\name', where 'name' is the name I've configured the device with.
   When I try that, Windows (WinXP Pro) immediately returns with an
error to the effect that it can't find the system.

Then I tried with '\\ipaddress', where 'ipaddress' is the address I used
when I remotely configured it above. That also returns immediately with
the same error.

If I use a Linux system running KDE to browse the network, I can see the
shares from the device (which is better than windows is doing), but
still can't access them. Although I think the error might have to do
with a permissions error at this point, but I'm not sure.

Here are the project.reg entries that I'm using for setting for the File
Server:

;
; File Server Settings
;
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Ident]
     "OrigName"="WinCE"
     "Name"="XYZZY"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\Smbserver]
        "AdapterList"="*"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\Smbserver\Shares]
        "UseAuthentication"=dword:0

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\Smbserver\Shares\root]
        "Path"="\\"
        "Type"=dword:0
        "UserList"="admin"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\Smbserver\Shares\cf]
        "Path"="\\Storage Card"
        "Type"=dword:0
        "UserList"="admin"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\HTTPD\VROOTS\/RemoteAdmin]
        "HTTPDRestartTimeClient"=dword:8
        "HTTPDRestartTime"=dword:4

;
; Telnet server
;
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMM\TELNETD]
     "UseAuthentication"=dword:0
     "IsEnabled"=dword:1

;
; FTP server
;
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMM\FTPD]
        "AllowAnonymous"=dword:1
        "AllowAnonymousUpload"=dword:1
        "DefaultDir"="\\"
        "IsEnabled"=dword:1
        "UseAuthentication"=dword:0
        "AllowLowPortValues"=dword:0

Does anyone see anything that I'm obviously doing wrong?

I'd appreciate any suggestions!

thanks,
Jeff Cooper
jeffc@logicpd.com



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