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wireless >> Peer to Peer with another PPC

by Daniels » Sat, 19 Jul 2003 06:10:59 GMT

I know it can be done because I have seen an article written some where a
while back before I actually became interested in PPC. I have convinced a
couple of my co-workers at work to purchase Pocket PC's and they all love
them much. I use mine daily for GPS with Mapopolis because I travel a great
deal.

What we are trying to do, however, is to share files with each other over
our own P2P network just using our 802.11b cards I am the only iPAQ user of
the bunch so I have a Netgear MA701 and the other users have the Dell Axim's
and the Dell True Mobile CF card. Can some one please instruct us how to
use P2P with our PPC's. I have heard of PocketLANce but I don't know that
much about it and I can't find an owners manual on the web site that
discusses set up of that feature.

Any help would be appreciated,

Handheld_user



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wireless >> Peer to Peer with another PPC

by Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] » Sat, 19 Jul 2003 07:44:13 GMT


It is going to be difficult as there are no native "host" services in
the PPC os.

In my tinkering, the only ppc peer to peer success has been using
MSPortrait and that is primarily a "proof of concept" app.

There are some ppc/ftp apps around... seem to remember than at least one
would serve files.

Sure some others will post other options and success stories.

Beverly Howard

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wireless >> Peer to Peer with another PPC

by Daniels » Tue, 29 Jul 2003 05:32:44 GMT

Thanks for all of the replies, I guess I will give Peer 2 Peer and LanCE a
chance at networking Pocket PC's with my co-workers.

Thanks a lot, I appreciate the wisdom from this group.

Daniels
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