GerVor

Hi...

Has ne1 managed to activesync using WLAN in AD-Hoc mode to a windows XP PC?

I have tried it but I cannot get it to work.
I am also trying to map to shared drives on the AD-Hoc'ed PC from the ipaq 4150 but it is not working.

Any help would be appreciated.

GerVor

Howard2k

Sure.

how far did you get? What have you done so far?

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GerVor

Hi..

I can connect ad-hoc to my xp box and use the internet.

I have to following setup :

WINXP with 2 network cards
100/10 ethernet : 172.30.7.5 (This is the connection going to my gateway PC and then out to the internet, gateway PC is 172.30.7.1)
I also have a USB WIFI card 54MBit 11g with the IP (192.168.0.1)
172.30.7.5 shares its internet connection with the WIFI card.

I can ad-hoc from the IPAQ to the WIFI card and I give the IPAQ the static IP of 192.168.0.2. I can get to the internet with no problems and I can even ftp to my gateway (172.30.7.1).

I cannot get the activesync going from the IPAQ to the ad-hoc'ed PC (192.168.0.1) nor can I map to a shared drive on this XP PC.

GerVor

Howard2k

IS firewalling enabled on the XP machine?

If you installed vxUtil from http://www.cam.com on the Ipaq, can you ping the actual PC?

Is Active Sync set to allow Ethernet connections on the PC under the connetion settings option?

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GerVor

Hi..

There is no firewall enabled. No internet firewall settings enabled.

With vxutil I can ping 192.168.0.1 (ad-hoc'ed PC) as well as other PCs on my lan like 172.30.7.1.

I also have the "Allow ethernet and RAS.." box ticked in the activesync connection settings.

All seems fine and connected. Somewhere I must be missing something.

GerVor

PS : DO you have ICQ, it might be quicker to commounicate there..(244650793)

Howard2k

I don't use ICQ. Sorry. Take a look for a program called PocketHosts and create name to IP mapping. So it would be the PC Name as referenced in AS on the PPC with the IP address of the PC.

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GerVor

I can see the PC name now in activesync on the ipaq which I could not see before.
If I now try to sync with the PC then it says on the ipaq that I need to configure a VPN connection. Do you know why this might be? Is it XP refusing the connection somehow?

GerVor