evenlu
11-30-2004, 04:10 AM
I am thinking of buying a new cradle to have one at work and one at home. I have tried to set up the one cradle I have on both computers, installing different programs on the two. Some problems seemed to occour when trying to synchronize non excisting programs. I also have problems accessing internet from work through our firewall. I want the following setup:
Home computer: GPS programs, maps, avantgo, Palm Desktop, (outlook express mail)
Work computer: Outlook
Any ideas on how I can set this up without causing problems? I don't want to check/uncheck items in the conduit setup every time I want to hotsync.
jonasolof
11-30-2004, 08:33 AM
Originally posted by evenlu
I am thinking of buying a new cradle to have one at work and one at home. I have tried to set up the one cradle I have on both computers, installing different programs on the two. Some problems seemed to occour when trying to synchronize non excisting programs. I also have problems accessing internet from work through our firewall. I want the following setup:
Home computer: GPS programs, maps, avantgo, Palm Desktop, (outlook express mail)
Work computer: Outlook
Any ideas on how I can set this up without causing problems? I don't want to check/uncheck items in the conduit setup every time I want to hotsync.
MY one eurocent's worth:
You don't even need to buy a cradle, a charging cable is OK, preferably the one that Garmin sells which doesn't risk to overload the USB port since it relies on an external charger.
Some installations that don't need proprietary conduits can be made over a card reader or directly to the iQue with PFB or other software. I guess that you use more programs than you accounted for.
Instead of using the desktop mail conduit, you could maybe use a third party mail software at home.
Quoting from O'Reilly: Palmpilot, the ultimate guide (1999) p. 145:
One PalmPilot, two PCs: "It is pefectly safe"...
There are two exceptions:
After a hard reset - you have to remember what should over write what.
"The second situation where caution is required: When you're Hotsyncing to a different calender/address book program on each of the two PCs. For example, suppose you keep your contact list in Microsoft Outlook at home, but in Sidekick at the office.
One word of advice in this situation: don't do it. Each program tracks its Hotsync progress differently, and your poor PalmPilot can become hopelessly confused as to which information is current."
So I guess the solution would be to use the same app in both places.
As for going through the firewall - you didn't mention how you do it but I guess it is via the cradle or a cable. Be sure that a firewall such as Zone alarm includes your device in the local zone. Also, you might have to include the router IP number in your network settings. Third, your office firewall might track which IP's or even MAC addresses it accepts as coming from the internal network.
There is software to allow you to browse the internet via a PC (Softtick??)
For digging further into this, you might look in the Tungsten forum or even at the usenet forum comp.sys.palmtops.pilot, preferably using groups.google.com to search.