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Share a folder on your device, via SMB/CIFS?

I want to share a folder on my PPC, which i could access on my PC through WiFi, with the simple windows sharing protocol - SMB/CIFS.
i.e: i want to be able to browse my PPC with the address: \\HTCUniversal\Storage Card\Music ....
I'm wondering, how could it be that there is no app/service that will provide this???
It seems like a really basic and simple request, but yet i've found no solution to this.
I found "Mocha FTP Server", but it doesn't quite do the job, because i have to run it manually everytime i want to browse my ppc, so its not that comfortable.
If only i could run such an app as a small service - it would be perfect.
Any ideas?
There are many free SMB implementations on the net under GNU/GPL license, maybe someone could port it to a windows mobile platform?

smb is known simply as "Microsoft Windows Network".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block
smb and it's server samba is just what linux work call what windows world call
"microsoft network"
use total commander to connect to shared drives you may have to add
the pda as a valid user on the shares though

thanx for your reply, but you must have misunderstood my question.
in a nutshell - I want a samba/SMB/ms windows network server on my ppc (NOT a client).
i want to access folders on my ppc, through my pc, using Wifi.
not the other way around...

doh! my bad
sure it's possible but preciously few of such server services have been implemented on wm that i know off
not sure if it's because lack of demand
lack of mem and cpu juice(i mean an arm 400Mhz cant hold any kind of cantle to an old 400Mhz p4 or amd cpu)
or if it's the fact that batt power and stablity and lack of a device which make everybody else time out due to power saving settings
maybe the people who would be poking at that bear are busy making linux useable on these pdas

Online database available from PocketPC

Hi !
I have my own server at home, in order to have access to my files outside my home. This is very convenient.
I would like to have an online database (with forms like you can have with MS Access, but Online) so that I can organize my information (foreign language vocabulary, DVD list, todo list, ...). I can install it on my server, and I would like it to be easily accessible from my PocketPC (via Internet, or even better via an specific application on the PocketPC ).
Do you have some suggest for an existing application offering this ?
I have good knowledge (I have already worked with .NET at work).
Regards, Chris

This is very interesting to me. Are you familiar with SQL Server mobile?

I know SQL Server 2005/2008 good.
I have never really used SQL Server Mobile, but I have read about it. Why ?

Remote desktop software

Hey guys, Does anyone know if there's any decent FREE apps for the android that i can use for remote assistance? i work in IT and this would be very useful to me but im not willing to fork out cash just yet.
I know you can use VNC but this means installing software on client machines and setting that software upm which is no use to me.
thanks in advance guys

I have tried most and there are no good free RDC clients. (I started to write one myself but it was not very fun so I abandoned it.)
I would suggest biting the bullet and buying xtralogic's Remote Desktop client. At $19.95 it is the most expensive option but the controls on it are the best IMHO.
If you want cheaper ($7.98) there is Remote RDP by Walter Yongtao Wang but i find the controls are not as intuitive.
I know you said you do not want to fork out cash yet but the reality is if you want a good RDC client then for now you are going to have to pay for it. In the grand scheme of things $20 is a minor investment for the aggravation saved.

PhoneMyPC is the best one I've tried and I've played with almost all of them. Multitouch zooming makes it closest to what logmein ignition is on the iPhone. I think until logmein comes out with an Android app, it's the best bet even though it costs a few dollars.

yeah , i also use PhoneMyPC , works great , no problems

I have to agree. PhoneMyPC is extremely (surprizingly) fast and worked better than the RDP or VNC solutions from my testing.
I was very skeptical that it could perform well, but... call me a believer now.

Thanks for the answers guys, I'll try PhoneMyPc out first.
One more question, I would also like to Wake computers via LAN, Do these software's have the ability to send the "magic" WOL packets to wake a system up?
This is another feature i would find extremely useful.

Clearly my brain was not working last night. I misread what you were asking for. PhoneMyPC is nice but requires a client install.
If your goal is end client support and you do not want to require them to install an application you might consider UltraVNC single click for the client ( http://www.uvnc.com/addons/singleclick.html )+ a VNC viewer on android. While it will not perform as well as PhoneMyPC it has the benefit of being a zero foot print solution and works well in situations where the client may not want/be able to install applications on their system. I keep a build on my website and if a situation pops up that requires me to access the end user's machine have them download and run it.
Your request for WOL is a bit confusing though, which implies you are not going for end user support. What are you looking for:
- a solution to connect to your personal machine running in the same subnet as your phone
- a solution to connect to your personal machine from wherever you may be at
- a solution to connect to remote end users machines with a pre-installed application
- a solution to connect to remote end users machines without a pre-installed application
- something else.
WOL can be triggered remotely (with preparation) but regardless requires the machine to be set up properly and that you know the MAC address in advance, not likely in a remote end user scenario.

Does anyone know where can I get the PhoneMyPC installation file for the phone? I couldn't find any download link on their site.

On the market. search for "phonemypc". It is a commercial app (9.99 USD) so that is pretty much your only way to get it.

Trust me on this one, go with Remote Desktop Client from xtralogic.. I've been using it for nearly a year.. its the best RDP you will find, no client install needed.

PhoneMyPC is the BEST!
Wait... we're biased ;-)
I suspect the user base here is savvy enough to know much of this, but a few details for anybody who's interested.
PhoneMyPC uses a technology similar to VNC, but it's custom and generally performs better. It is a bandwidth-limited approach to remoting, and we chose this because (a) we wanted something that made no compromises on visual quality (no missing desktop wallpapers, no changed settings, no missing themes), and we see the trend in available bandwidth going steadily up for the forseeable future. This makes PhoneMyPC a good option for remote video, for example, because it is optimized for pictoral data rather than vector data.
RDP, on the other hand, is optimized for vector data, so typically consumed less bandwidth than PhoneMyPC, but much more CPU resources. It also has the advantage that it is built in to all Professional and Server Windows versions.
The biggest difference between the two however is how they handle the network. With RDP you must know and configure your IP, and you must update it when it changes (or use a DynDNS type solution). You must also know how to configure your router and other security mechanisms for port forwarding.
PhoneMyPC just works, because it uses our servers as a connection point between your phone and PC(s). You don't need to know your IP, or worry if it changes, becuase the PC will actually tell the phone what it's IP is every time you connect. You can use port forwarding to get a better, direct connection, but it is not required for the software to work.
Finally, RDP is a long-lasting, well established (and more or less un-changing) technology; that is an advantage from some perspectives. But if you compare what users are saying PhoneMyPC is at least as good, and it's new, still growing, always getting better, and we're not even close to done yet. That too is an advantage from some perspectives.
SoftwareForMe.com
Makers of PhoneMyPC

I've bought all of them, and I could never get Phone My PC to connect. RDC by xtralogic, Remote VNC Pro Android VNC work great (used with TightVNC).
EDIT: Any suggestions Softwareforme? Also constant f/c's when connected via wifi on N1.

Torrent client for WP7

Does it exsist?
(P.S not a remote torrent client, not something I can control utorrent with my phone, i already have this)

What would you download?
I don't know, but I just wonder what you would download to your phone with your torrent client? Films?

i have 5gb data phome plan...

No problem
Ok, I don't doubt that you have the ability and the necessary data plan to download huge things to your phone, but the question remains: What will you download directly to your phone that is so big that Torrents make sense?
Maybe the fact that until now there seem to be no BitTorrent clients downloading to the phone itself wants to tell us something? Maybe it tells us that there is some consensus that downloading huge things directly to a phone only very few people want to do?
Technically I see no problem to implement a client, that probably can't be the problem.

While I would assume that a torrent client is not entirely impossible, I can't see how it would be usefull in any way.
Plus, even if you managed to find/code a torrent client, it would only have access to its own isolated storage, to which other apps do not have access. You'd be dowloading files you can not access, really.

Writing the network code for a torrent client would probably be possible under the official APIs, though I'm not familiar enough with the protocol to say for sure. It's absolutely possible with the unofficial APIs, but that's then homebrew-only, not allowed in the Marketplace (requires calling native code).
Associating the app with .torrent file extension is possible, but only if you can edit the registry (requires interop-lock or above, for pretty much all phones except the LGs). That's definitley not going to be in the Marketplace, and won't work on phones that just have a basic dev-unlock either.
I'm not opposed to the idea from a theoretical perspective, but I too must ask what you'd use this for...

I think it would be nice to have a torrent app... But it would probably take along time to develop.

WallProxy GUI on RT

This is a GUI interface for WallProxy that can run on RT.
FYI WallProxy uses the Google App Engine as a free proxy server. Useful if you can't visit certain websites behind a firewall and don't have a vpn handy. The concept is that assuming your connection to appspot.com is good, we can create a webapp on appspot.com that fetches webpages you want, even though you can't visit these pages directly (like if they are banned on your network). Technically you can even deploy your proxy webapp to any site that supports php (maybe your own web server)!
Setting up the proxy server can be quite a bore, but once it's done things actually run tolerably well. WallProxy doesn't come with a GUI though, and my app here takes care of that.
If enough people want I m happy to wrote another GUI to make deploying GAE server proxies easier.

Vpn？？？