Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "A tutorial of setting up and using Wi-Fi peer-to-peer connections between Pocket PC's"

David, is your adhoc network between two PDA's or a PDA and a desktop Windows-based device? If the former, then, you can not fully share your internet connection existing on one of these devices. This is why ping isn't working. The Windows Mobile OS doesn't support connection sharing; this is why we need to use third-party solutions like proxy servers running on the PDA.

It's only by using my proxy server on the Internet-connected PDA that the other PDA will be able to access the Web (and nothing else).

Simple generic answer is that the Windows Mobile operating system is not as robust as the Windows XP operating system. Thus features available on Winodws XP cannot be duplicated as easily on Windows Mobile. Specially network related features have always been slow to appear in WIndows Mobile. We are at version 5.0 and still many features are missing that are the norm on Windows XP.

There indeed would be - now, somebody needs to port/implement it to Windows Mobile.

It's, to my knowledge, not possible - in the sense of network drive sharing. The OS just doesn't support it.

It's, however, possible to install an FTP server on your PDA and now that your device has an IP address, access the file system of your PDA via the FTP protocol. It's not as clean as 'native' file sharing, but at least works and is still much easier (mass down/uploads, no need for allowing every single file transfer etc) than, say, the Bluetooth-based file transfer methods. Please let me know if you need additional information on this.

Smartphone &amp; Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "A tutorial of setting up and using Wi-Fi peer-to-peer connections between Pocket PC&#039;s"

Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "A tutorial of setting up and using Wi-Fi peer-to-peer connections between Pocket PC's"