i-mate SP5 Wireless Network

[Guest GuyAdams]

Im currently awaiting my i-mate SP5,

Questions,

i) Is there a way of viewing/using network shares over the wi-fi connection from the phone? If not will there be any software to support this?

ii) What will the TCP/IP protocols be like, i presume being Windows Mobile 5.0 based it will be a cut down version of the standard XP TCP/IP?

Any help or insight would be much appreciated.

Regards

GuyAdams

[Guest schriss]

I have my SP5m since yesterday and I am also trying to get mt SP5m to show network as NETWORK folder like on my Pocket PC.

I have found this:

How to access Network shares through Pocket Explorer.

In order to see the Network folder you can download a third party tool like Resco Explorer, which will cost you, or you can do a simple registry edit.

Backup your Pocket PC before playing with the registry. This is good practice in case anything goes wrong.

To make the Network visible :

1. open registry editor on your Pocket PC.

2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\REDIR

3. Open RegisterFSBoot and change the DWORD value to 1.

4. Close registry editor and soft reset the device. thats it!

BUT it's for Pocket PC, and I couldn't create redistry key, will try another registry application.

Anyone had better luck?

[Guest kam_]

afaik its just not implemented on smartphone. Even resco for smartphone won't do it.

It seems that SMB just wasn't included in smartphone, nor was netbios obviously; probably so PPC people can proclaim their devices are real PDA's :)

I assume it will appear at some point, but more likely as a program leveraging raw sockets than any sort of protocol to drop ontop of the tcpip stack :D

[Guest schriss]

afaik its just not implemented on smartphone.  Even resco for smartphone won't do it.

It seems that SMB just wasn't included in smartphone, nor was netbios obviously; probably so PPC people can proclaim their devices are real PDA's :)

I assume it will appear at some point, but more likely as a program leveraging raw sockets than any sort of protocol to drop ontop of the tcpip stack :D

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So lets hope some smart programmer notices that there is a need for such application, an opportunity to put it on Handango and make some extra cash 8)

I'm ready to beta test.