Conecting a XDA to a laptop - MDA, XDA, 1010 General

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Subject: Conecting a XDA to a laptop
From: Shanec
Date: 12 Jan, 2003 08:49:37
Great site, keep up the good work. Question, I have been trying
to connect the xda to my office laptop so that when i am NOT in
the office i can access my corporate emails on Outlook via
activesync or some other means. We also have the ability to dial
into our main server but it is pretty much fire walled.
I would appreciate any help i can get on this.
Cheers Shane
Subject: XDA Sync to a laptop
From: Gene_uk
Date: 12 Jan, 2003 14:13:42
Hi,
Do you have a USB port on your Laptop?
I sync my XDA to my laptop PC at work every day with no
problems.
Let me know.
Gene
Subject: xda outlook access out of the
From: shanemaila
Date: 13 Jan, 2003 08:59:21
Same here both the usb and the ird work well, but when i am out
of the office is the problem. I am currently using:
http://www.visto.com/partners/microsoft/corporate/index.html[/
url]
but i am afraid they will start to charge soon.
Subject: Reading e-mails out of office
From: Gene_uk
Date: 13 Jan, 2003 12:39:03
Your company needs to have an external IP address for your mail
server. the way to check is if you can read your e-mails through
a dialup connection or through the internet that youre in luck.
If you can only connect via dialup only, it might be a little
trickier, but not impossible. If it is through the intenet, you
can use GPRS to hit the address and receive your e-mails.
the first question is whether your company is either dialup or
not.
Gene
Subject: Dial up with a laptop is ok
From: shanec
Date: 14 Jan, 2003 10:16:16
Gene, thanks for the response. In the past and currently i can
dial into our RAS server to get to the Microsoft Exchange email
server version 5.5 and collect my email with a laptop. However
when we try this with the xda it fails, i guess because of the
lack of modem capability. We can not access through the internet
as they will not release the POP3 or SMTP to us. Also we are
firewalled up to our armpits.
Subject: XDA using a RAS server
From: Gene_uk
Date: 14 Jan, 2003 12:27:55
You will have to speak to your IT people to check the security
settings for the RAS server and allow your xda to log into the
server at 9.6Kbps (this will be the average transmission speed).
some servers automatically reject speeds lower than 14.4 for
certain reasons.
If they use a certain type of protocol you may need to download
certain software from the web to emulate this. but once this is
done, and you have the right security passwords, it should work
fine.
Set up a mail account on the "inbox section" and set up a new
connection.
If you are unure how to do this check the manual.
Subject: Thanks
From: shanec
Date: 15 Jan, 2003 01:09:54
Thanks Gene i will get the IT boys to get involved with this and
maybe add some posts if they are running into difficulties.
Again thanks.